YouTube : HemChess

What you're doing well

You show good initiative and active piece play in your recent daily games. You often develop pieces quickly, castle safely, and press when your opponent overextends. Your results in several standard openings indicate you’re comfortable with familiar structures and can seize the initiative when the position opens up.

• You handle bishop and knight development with purpose, aiming for quick activity in the early middlegame.
• You’re able to create practical chances, especially when you gain a lead in development or when your pieces coordinate on key files and diagonals.
• Your ability to execute tactical ideas, such as line-opening ideas through piece exchanges, shows you have a good sense of when to strike while the position is dynamic.

Opening performance snapshot

Your games show comfort with several popular lines. Specifically, you’ve had strong results with Bishop’s Opening and the Four Knights Game, suggesting a solid grasp of quick development and central influence in those setups. There are also indications you’re willing to pursuit active plans in the QGD family, but a couple of lines in that area have been tougher, where the middlegame plan didn’t quite land as hoped.

• Two-game sample in Bishop’s Opening: solid wins show you can convert activity from the start.
• Four Knights Game: clean win in a straightforward, development-driven path.
• QGD: some middlegame challenges suggest room to sharpen standard middlegame plans after these structures.
• Barnes Defense: a draw shows resilience, but you may benefit from sharpening plan contrasts when facing solid defensive setups.

Key areas to sharpen

• Midgame plans after the QGD and related structures: study typical middlegame themes, such as piece activity, break ideas in the center, and when to push or concede space.
• Calculation under time pressure: practice slower, deliberate look-ahead in critical moments and avoid premature exchanges that ease your opponent’s plan.
• Endgame technique: reinforce rook and minor piece endgames, focusing on king activation and creating winning pawn structures when material is equal.
• Piece coordination and file control: aim to maximize pressure on central and open files, especially when you win a tempo with development or a tactic.
• Time management and pre-move discipline: keep a simple checklist before critical moves to reduce rush decisions in the heat of the moment.

Suggested two-week training plan

• Tactics daily: 15–20 minutes solving themed puzzles (focus on tactics common to your openings and typical middlegame motifs from QGD and Four Knights).
• Opening study: dedicate two sessions to the QGD family and one session to a variation you enjoy in Bishop’s Opening and Four Knights. Create short, practical plan summaries you can recap before games.
• Game review routine: after each game, write down the exact moment you felt pressure or ignorance of a plan, and note a concrete improvement idea for the next game.
• Endgame practice: weekly 1–2 short rook-and-pawn endgame drills to build technique in simplified positions.

Practical next steps

To accelerate improvement, try a focused practice cycle: pick 1–2 lines from your opening repertoire to master over the next two weeks, and pair them with a 1–2 page quick-reference cheat sheet of typical middlegame ideas for those lines. If you want, I can tailor a mini-study plan around a recent game and annotate a key moment to highlight the exact decision points to improve.

Optional quick reference

When you want to share a quick summary of a recent game for feedback, you can attach a short PGN snippet or use a placeholder like a compact move list to illustrate the critical turning point. This helps focus the review on the moment that mattered most.