Enes Tanriverdi IM

Recent Performance Overview

Enes, over the past month your blitz performance shows positive momentum with a strength adjusted win rate slightly above 51%, which indicates your competitive consistency against opponents of similar skill. Your rating has notably increased by 53 points this month, exhibiting a strong upward trend that continues from your 3-month and 6-month gains.

The positive slopes in your rating trend, especially the strong 6-month slope nearing 30, suggests that your improvement is steady and accelerating over this timeframe. Keep up this consistency to solidify gains and build further strength.

Recent Game Highlights

• Your playing style often involves flexible openings like the Reti Opening and English setups, enabling good control over the center and development pace.
• The games you won usually show good maneuvering and active piece play, especially in the middlegame. You made effective use of pawn breaks and exchanges to open lines for your rooks and queen.
• Defensively, you managed critical moments well, often recovering from early pressure and creating counterplay opportunities.
• In losses, some games showed you facing sustained pressure on the queenside or difficulties in neutralizing opponent's initiative in the center leading to structural weaknesses or material loss.

Areas for Improvement

To continue your progress, focus on the following aspects:

• Handling early pressure: Some losses indicate difficulty in responding to active opponent pawn pushes and piece placement early on. Reviewing common responses to thematic breaks like ...f5 or ...b5 in your openings could help.
• Endgame technique under time pressure: A few games ended with losses influenced by clock pressure. Improving quick decision-making and familiarity with key endgame patterns will increase conversion of promising positions.
• Opening repertoire consistency: While your openings are effective, consistent deepening of theory in your favorite systems like the Reti and English can give you an edge against prepared opponents.

Training Recommendations

• Analyze your recent losses alongside wins to identify recurring tactical or positional themes where improvements are possible.
• Practice specific endgame scenarios focusing on rook and pawn endings, common in blitz, to improve technical finishing skills.
• Study master games in your preferred openings to learn plans and key motifs, especially focusing on the ECO codes A00-A15 which are frequent in your games.
• Consider targeted drills on time management to reduce time pressure blunders in fast time controls.

Overall Impression

You are on a very positive trajectory with strong rating gains and solid win rates. Continue leveraging your strengths in opening preparation and active play, while addressing defensive resilience and endgame precision. This balanced approach will enable even stronger performances in upcoming blitz matches.