Gasan Guliev CM

What you’re doing well in blitz

You show a willingness to engage in sharp, tactical positions and keep the pressure on opponents. In several games, you create active piece play and generate practical winning chances by attacking king safety or activating your rooks and queenside activity.

• Your willingness to seek dynamic play can unsettle more solid opponents and put you in winning chances from the opening and early middlegame.
• You identify tactical motifs and look for concrete lines that clash with your opponent’s plans, which helps you convert favorable moments into material or positional gains.
• When you manage to simplify into favorable endgames, you convert well, showing good practical conversion in blitz with limited time.

Key areas to improve for stronger blitz results

• Time management: In several games you ran into time trouble or lost on time. Build a simple time plan for blitz: allocate a steady number of seconds per move, and use the increment to avoid time scrambles on critical middlegame tactics.
• Decision quality under time: When ahead or in complex positions, aim to simplify earlier rather than chasing long tactical sequences. This reduces the risk of blunders and helps convert advantage more reliably.
• Opening discipline: A compact, reliable repertoire helps you avoid early mistakes in sharp lines. Consider focusing on a couple of solid openings with clear middlegame plans, then study key middlegame ideas rather than trying many branches in blitz.
• Endgame technique: Blitz endgames with imbalanced material or passed pawns can be tricky. Practice common king-and-pawn endings, rook endings, and basic technique to convert or hold when the position simplifies.
• Pattern recognition and traps: Strengthen recognition of common tactical motifs (back-rank ideas, overloads, forks, and skewers) so you can spot them quickly even when under pressure.

Opening and general strategy focus

Your openings show a mix of styles, with solid results in some lines and sharper play in others. A practical path is to lean into a dependable duo of openings that fit your style and provide clear middlegame plans:

• Consider reinforcing the Caro-Kann Defense and similar solid choices, which historically yield good defensive structures and straightforward middlegame plans.
• In the White games, a tested setup with early development and clear pawn breaks can reduce risk in the blitz format.
• Review 1-2 representative games per opening to extract their typical middlegame plans, keys for piece activity, and common endgame transitions.

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Practical training plan (2–3 weeks)

• Daily tactics: 15–20 minutes of focused tactical puzzles emphasizing motifs like pins, forks, skewers, and overloaded pieces.
• Endgame sessions: 2–3 short endgame drills (king and pawn endings, rook endings) to improve conversion under time pressure.
• Opening narrow focus: Pick 2 openings for White and 2 for Black. Learn the core plans, typical pawn structures, and common middlegame ideas.
• Blitz-specific time drills: Do 10-minute sessions with a fixed increment, aim to reach 25–30 moves comfortably, and practice stepping away from complex lines when the clock is tight.
• Post-game review: After each blitz session, briefly note 1–2 critical moments (mistakes to avoid, or better plans you missed) and rehearse them visually without a board.

Opening focus suggestions

Given your data, emphasizing solid, low-risk lines can help you maintain consistency in blitz. Combine this with occasional sharp games to preserve your fighting spirit, but ensure you have a clear plan in the middlegame rather than relying on risky gymnastics.

Next steps

Would you like me to create a tailored two-week blitz training plan with daily tasks, a short set of model games to study, and a structured post-game review routine? I can also outline a compact opening repertoire and a simple time-management checklist to follow during your next sessions.