Jessica Molina Chambilla WFM

Hi Jessica!

Great work breaking through the 2200-mark (current personal best: 2252 (2025-05-29)). Your recent win against rollinthunder shows how dangerous your initiative can be when you get the pieces rolling. Below is a quick summary of what you already do well, followed by three focused areas that will give you the biggest rating gain for the least study time.

What’s already working

• Opening variety & activity. You are comfortable steering the game into dynamic structures (King’s Indian with 4.Bf4, Anti-Fried Liver, Scandinavian side-lines). This keeps opponents out of book and hands you the initiative early.
• Tactical alertness. In the 22-move miniature vs. RollinThunder you spotted 11.Nd5!? and followed up with the neat Ne7+ fork. The conversion starting with 17.Bxh5! shows excellent pattern recognition.
• Confidence to sacrifice material. Your Italian win vs. giogobe featured the pawn sacrifice 8.e5 + 9.d5 to rip the centre, a decision that paid off with the Qh5+ / Qf7# finish.

Improvement priorities

1. Time management (highest ROI)

You lost three of the last five defeats on time in completely playable positions (vs. Cloud_2025, Swissfighter1 twice). Consider:

1. Pre-move discipline. In forced reply sequences (recaptures, obvious king moves) trust yourself and pre-move.
2. 30/30 rule. Aim to reach move 30 with ≥30 % of the initial clock. Practise in sparring games with a visible “time-left” widget.
3. Chunked thinking. Use the opening and early middlegame to think on opponent’s time: create a candidate move list before the clock comes back to you.

2. End-of-game technique

The Caro-Kann loss to cloud_2025 shows solid middlegame play but the conversion slipped in the R+P ending. Two concrete drills:

• Key rook endgames. Work through the “Philidor” and “Lucena” positions until you can set them up from memory; they appear every ~40 games at your level.
• Opposition patterns. Use a puzzle set filtered for king-and-pawn endings (10–20 minutes per day).

3. Pawn-structure awareness

In several losses you pushed wing pawns early (a-pawn vs. Swissfighter1, h-pawns vs. Cloud_2025) and created weak squares behind them.

“Every pawn move creates a square you can no longer control.” – Nimzowitsch

Try adding prophylaxis to your move checklist: “What does my pawn push leave behind?” A quick game review with a coloured-square heatmap will help—see

Training plan for the next 4 weeks

Micro-goals to track

• Lose on time in <5 % of games this month (was ~22 %).
• Convert 4/5 rook-and-pawn endgames where you are +1 or better.
• Keep early pawn pushes (before move 10) to ≤2 per game unless theory demands it.

Motivation corner

Your attacking style is your brand—thread in better clock usage and cleaner endings, and 2300+ is realistically within two seasons. Keep having fun over the board, and remember: “Accuracy is the twin of creativity.”

Good luck, and let me know how next month’s games go!
—Coach

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