What is working well
Your overall trend is going the right way. The three and six month numbers both point upward, and your win rate in the Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense sits around 58 percent, which is well above your baseline. That tells me you understand attacking play in open positions where your pieces get active quickly.
In this Sicilian win against s7hendrik you did the most important thing well: you did not panic when the position got messy. You kept your pieces coordinated, stayed ahead on material, and let your opponent run out of ideas. That patience is a real strength and it is why you win these sharp games.
You also clearly have a large body of experience with the Sicilian Defense on both sides of the board. That volume of games is an asset as long as you use it to build a clear plan rather than just repeating what you already know.
Pattern one: grabbing material instead of checking safety
The clearest repeat issue is taking a pawn or a piece while your own queen or king is left loose. In your game against erdee_01 you were doing fine in a sharp Najdorf Variation until you captured the rook on the back rank. The problem was that your queen sat on the a-file with no escape square and no defender, and after a check and a follow up knight move it was simply taken. One material grab turned a playable position into a lost one.
erdee_01 did not win that game with brilliant play, they won by noticing your queen was loose. The habit to build here is the classic "Loose Pieces Drop Off" check. Before you take something, look at every one of your own pieces and ask whether any of them has fewer defenders than attackers. That single question would have saved both of those games.
Pattern two: risky moves in front of your own king
Against mohsenbomber you pushed a bishop to the center of the board and lost it immediately in this game. The opponent's queen simply took it. This is the same theme as above but in the opening: you commit a piece to a square before confirming it is safe and defended.
In the Vienna Game against haris1980 you were castled and then advanced your h-pawn. That pawn push is very common, but it hands your opponent a target right in front of your king. Once the pawn was captured and the file opened, the rooks and queen flooded in and the game ended in checkmate on the h-file. Working on king safety means being slow to touch the three pawns in front of your castled king unless you have a concrete reason and you have counted the attacking pieces.
Pattern three: the clock in long games
Against chessbrain1234 you played a long, complicated endgame and lost it on time rather than on the board. You had a real position there and you were the one creating chances, so losing to the clock is frustrating. The key detail is that you spent your time in the middle game and then had almost nothing left for the part of the game where accuracy matters most.
Under time pressure your calculation gets shorter and you start trusting instincts instead of checking. A simple fix is to decide early which moves deserve long thought and which ones can be played quickly. If a move is a recapture or a forced exchange, play it fast and bank the time for the critical moment.
Where to aim your opening work
- Your Najdorf Variation results are the weakest spot in your main repertoire at roughly 44 percent. That is a lot of games played in a line where you are not getting an edge, so either narrow your choices inside the Najdorf or consider a different answer to the open Sicilian Defense.
- Your closed Sicilian results are solid and very high volume, so keep those as your reliable base.
- Your attacking results in the Vienna Gambit are strong. Keep playing those positions and use them as a confidence builder.
A practical plan: pick one Najdorf line you keep losing to, look at why you keep ending up under pressure, and spend a short session on the first ten moves only. You do not need a deep new repertoire, just a clear idea of where your pieces belong.
A simple weekly routine
- Before every capture that wins material, run the loose piece check on your own side.
- Do ten minutes of tactics daily focused on knight forks and queen traps, since that is exactly what beat you twice this week.
- In each game, pause once around move twenty and note your remaining time. If you are below your opponent, start playing simpler, safer moves.
- After each session, review only the game you lost most easily. Find the first moment you stopped checking your opponent's threats.
Your trajectory over six months is positive and your volume of games is huge. Small fixes to safety checking and clock use will convert a lot of these close losses into wins.
Final position of your most recent win
This is the moment s7hendrik resigned. Your queen and rook controlled the position and your opponent had no way to stop the passed pawns.