Evgeniya Doluhanova WGM

Feedback for Evgeniya Doluhanova (Jenia84)

Overall Impression: Your recent games demonstrate solid foundational skills, particularly in the opening and middlegame phases. You have a good grasp of classical development principles and show keen tactical awareness, especially in your ability to capitalize on opponent inaccuracies.

Strengths:

• Opening Preparation: You consistently employ reputable openings such as the Pirc Defense, Kings Indian Attack, and Sicilian variations, which shows a sound theoretical approach.
• Tactical Vision: Moves like Rfe1 and Rxb7+ in your win on 2025.06.06 demonstrate your sharpness in spotting critical tactical opportunities to win material or deliver decisive blows.
• Piece Activity: Your play tends to emphasize active piece placement, as seen in rook lifts, central control, and pawn breaks, which contributes to your middlegame pressure.

Areas for Improvement:

• Endgame Technique: A few losses show difficulty converting advantages or defending under pressure in the endgame. Focus on fundamental king and pawn endgames as well as simplified rook endgames to improve.
• Positional Understanding: While tactical play is a strength, in some games there is room to deepen your long-term strategic planning such as piece coordination and pawn structure management, to maintain pressure without rushing tactics.
• Time Management: Pay attention to clock management in longer games to avoid time trouble that can lead to mistakes in critical moments.

Concrete Suggestions:

1. Review key endgames (king & pawn, rook endgames) with practice exercises to improve confidence and technique in simplified positions.
2. Study classic strategic themes such as weak squares, open files, and pawn breaks to enhance your positional play.
3. Analyze recent games, especially losses, to identify decision points where a more strategic or prophylactic approach could prevent opponent counterplay.
4. Maintain awareness of your clock and develop a time allocation plan for different game phases, to improve decision quality under time pressure.

Next Steps:

Keep building on your opening repertoire and tactical alertness while complementing it with improved strategic concepts and endgame skills. Consistent study and practical application in training games will lead to growth in your overall playing strength.

Here is a quick glance at your latest notable victory to reinforce what works well in your play:

1. e4 d6 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Bd3 Bg7 5. c3 O-O 6. Bg5 c5 7. Nbd2 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Nc6 9. O-O Nxd4 10. cxd4 Qb6 11. Nb3 a5 
12. e5 Nd5 13. Bc4 e6 14. Bxd5 exd5 15. Be7 dxe5 16. Bxf8 Kxf8 17. dxe5 Be6 18. Qd4 Qxd4 19. Nxd4 Bxe5 20. Nxe6+ fxe6 21. Rfe1 Bxb2 
22. Rab1 Bc3 23. Rxe6 Kf7 24. Rd6 d4 25. Rxb7+ Ke8 26. Rxh7 1-0

Well done on handling the tension and transforming initiative into a decisive material advantage!