Jorge Bobadilla IM

Hi Jorge, great to see the work you’re putting in!

🌟 What you’re already doing well

• Dynamic openings as Black. Your French (C00–C02) and occasional Caro-Kann score well versus 2400-2500 players. You regularly reach comfortable pawn structures and castle quickly.
• Tactical alertness. The wins against Safin_Safar and VesnaTesting64 show crisp calculation under time pressure  —  especially the exchange sacs 25.Rxc8! and 16…Nxe4! that shifted the initiative decisively.
• Conversion in winning positions. In several bullet games you kept your technique clean despite single-minute time limits, queening the b-pawn or mating smoothly.

🔍 Main improvement themes

1. Side-pawn overextension as White.
   • Early h-/g-pawn thrusts (h4–h6 or g4) appear in four of the six losses and left weaknesses on the dark squares.
   • Consider delaying pawn storms until your minor pieces are developed and the centre clarified.
   👉 Training idea: start blitz games from move 8 of a normal position and forbid yourself from touching the h- or g-pawns for five moves. Feel the difference in piece activity.
2. French Defence middlegame plans.
   Loss vs MasterBlaster_1111 shows hesitation with …b6 & …Bb7 followed by …c5, allowing White to break with c4 and cxd5.
   • Study model games in the Rubinstein & Advance French where Black meets c4 with …cxd4 and quick …e5, activating the bad light-squared bishop.
   • Drill typical pawn-break calculations with the Chess.com “Custom Positions” tool: start from the diagram after 14.Rfd1 and try beating a 2500 engine as Black five times in a row.
3. Caro-Kann Two-Knights (as White).
   You were mated in 21 moves after 5.Qe2. The main line is 5.Nxf6+ exf6 6.d4 with long-term pressure on d5. Review one annotated game by Giri or So and play at least ten practice games with the line this week.
4. Endgame resilience.
   Against penguingm1 you resigned in a rookless king-and-pawn ending that is technically lost, yet the defensive technique (blockade on dark squares, hold the opposition) is instructive.
   • Work through Chapter 2 of Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual on “King Activity”.
   • Set a target of saving 1 out of every 3 inferior endgames in the next 100 blitz games.
5. Time-management fine-tuning.
   Even with +1 s increment you sometimes dropped below 5 s by move 20. Adopt a “Safe 5” rule: at every move 15/25/35 you must have ≥ 5 s. If not, play the next two moves instantly to rebuild the buffer.

⏳ Suggested weekly training plan (≈4 h)

📊 Track your progress

Peak ratings so far: 2654 (2025-04-29), 2594 (2025-05-03).
Use the dashboards to check whether the new approach improves your evening sessions:

💪 Next steps

• Load the critical position after 19…Ke8 (loss vs ab-lsv) and analyse with a friend: could you have rerouted the c5-knight first?
• Play one training game per week without any early pawn thrusts. Focus purely on piece coordination.
• Keep a mini-journal noting one key lesson after each session — you’ll be surprised how quickly patterns emerge.

Stay sharp, enjoy the journey, and let me know how the new routines feel after two weeks!