Vojislav Milanovic IM

Personalised Feedback for Vojislav “IMVoja” Milanovic

Below is an overview of your recent blitz session, distilled into concrete strengths, growth areas, and targeted practice suggestions. All remarks are based on the sample of wins and losses you supplied.

1 | What you already do very well

• Practical instincts in messy positions. You repeatedly convert unclear middlegames into wins on the clock or on the board (e.g. the win over Aleksandr Devaev where you steered play into a c4-break and kept the initiative).
• Opening repertoire variety. From the Réti/KIA as White to the Modern, Sicilian and an occasional Dutch as Black, opponents seldom get the same look twice.
• Tactical alertness. In several victories you punished loose king moves with crisp tactics – 37.Qc6# versus Reinaldovera is a textbook example.
• Calculated risk-taking. Gambitting the g-pawn (Modern Defence wins) or advancing the h-pawn (Rossolimo) shows good feel for initiative.

2 | Themes that cost you points

• Time management. Three of the five listed losses were decided by the clock. You often reach < 5 seconds with complex positions still on the board.
• Conversion in simplified positions. Against Nadya Toncheva the game dragged into a rook–pawn ending where you were still pressing but slipped into zugzwang and flagged. Similar story versus Jonas Gallasch.
• Over-ambitious pawn pushes without full piece support. In the Rossolimo loss your early h4-h5 and e5 gave Black targets; in the Dutch you played 9.e4?! without adequate central control.
• Loose dark squares when playing the Modern. Games vs JonasGallasch and Rodalquilar show recurring problems on the c4–e2–g1 diagonal after premature …f5/…h6.

3 | Opening map (last session)

With White: Réti/KIA, Sicilian Rossolimo, Anti-Sicilians.
With Black: Modern/Robatsch vs 1.d4, Sicilian O’Kelly & B30 vs 1.e4, occasional Dutch and French off-shoots.

Your open-game results are promising (Rossolimo score 2-1), but Modern lines vs 1.d4 scored only 50 % and produced two time-losses. Consider a quicker piece-development system (e.g. Classical Pirc) for blitz.

4 | Time-handling clinic

Adopt a soft internal clock:

1. By move 15 aim to have ≥ 1 min 40 s; trust your prep even if the position feels unfamiliar.
2. From move 25 on, shift to increment mode: make a forcing move every two seconds, then think during the +1 s.
3. Practise bullet games where the only goal is to keep ≥ 5 sec at all times; this rewires your rhythm for blitz.

See your hourly performance graph for typical fatigue dips:

5 | Targeted drills for next week

• Endgame flash-cards: 20 rook-and-pawn basics until you can recite the winning plan in < 10 sec. (e.g. Lucena, Philidor, Vancura, h-& f-pawns vs rook).
• Dark-square repair kit: Load a database of Modern/Pirc master games filtered for …g6 …d6 …e5 structures. Play them “guess-the-move” style and note how masters preserve kingside dark squares.
• 30-min calculation sprint each day: three positions, no board-moving, write down the main line; then compare with engine. Emphasise zwischenzug motifs zwischenzug.

6 | Illustrative snippets

7 | Progress tracker

Your current personal bests: Blitz 2498 (2020-12-01)    Rapid 1958 (2019-07-26)

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Stay curious and keep the pieces active. Good luck in the next Titled Tuesday!