Overall Performance and Trend
Your recent stats show a solid performance with a strength adjusted win rate just above 50%, which reflects your competitive level around the 2200-2300 rating range. The last 6 months show a slight downward rating trend of about 53 points, but the positive slopes in your 1- and 3-month trends indicate you are currently on an upswing in form. Keep focusing on consistency to capitalize on this upward momentum.
Opening Repertoire Insights
You have a broad and effective repertoire with some clear strengths and areas to refine:
- Strengths: Your best win rates come from the Vienna Gambit with Max Lange Defense (~60%) and the Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid (~58%). This indicates comfort and solid understanding in these sharp and tactical lines.
- Consistent options: Your use of the Caro-Kann Defense and the English Opening shows good practical success with over 50% win rates, solid foundations to build on.
- Improvement areas: The Closed Sicilian and the Najdorf Variation show win rates below 40%, indicating you may need to review typical plans and critical positions or consider alternative move orders.
Game Quality and Specific Suggestions
Looking over your recent wins and losses:
- Positive points: You demonstrate strong tactical awareness and attacking play, as evidenced by effective sacrifices and checkmate sequences in your victories. Your ability to convert advantages and avoid blunders is good at this rating level.
- Areas to improve: Losses often stem from allowing opponent piece activity early on and missing defensive resources — for example, your game against art3misK where early pressure on your king-side was decisive. Sharpening your opening preparation could help you avoid getting into defensive positions.
- Consider extending your opening study on Sicilian Taimanov/Bastrikov and related Sicilian lines, since you have reasonably invested in these but they yield mixed results currently.
- Improve your endgame technique and calculation, focusing on simplifying positions advantageously. Time management remains crucial: your wins often involve good time usage, while losses sometimes show time pressure affecting quality.
Training Recommendations
To continue improving and maintain your upward momentum:
- Opening: Deepen your understanding of weaker openings in your repertoire or streamline them in favor of your stronger lines like the Vienna Gambit and Caro-Kann.
- Middlegame: Focus on tactical patterns and defensive resources to reduce losses from unexpected attacks. Study games featuring the openings you use most.
- Endgame: Regularly train basic to intermediate endgames to improve conversion skills.
- Psychological: Practice staying calm under time pressure and use the clock wisely, as your ability to win on time and avoid time trouble will pay dividends.
Final Thoughts
Your performance shows you are a strong rapid player with a well-rounded style. By shoring up some weaker openings, enhancing defense, and focusing on practical training including time strategy, you will likely push your rating higher in the near future. Keep analyzing your games critically and enjoy the process!