Barbara Mihok-Juhasz WIM

Hi Barbara!

It’s always a pleasure to review the games of such an imaginative player. Below you’ll find personalised feedback drawn from your most-recent wins and losses, together with concrete training suggestions for the coming weeks.

Your Overall Strengths

• Dynamic opening choices. With Black you willingly enter sharp Sicilians (B72, B32) and aren’t afraid of castling long or playing the Dragon. As White your Rossolimo/Ruy-Lopez repertoire keeps opponents guessing early.
• Tactical alertness. Many wins were decided by combinations that exploited loose pieces (e.g. 15. Qd5! in the B72 game and the Rb7# miniature). Your calculation is clearly a major asset.
• Resourcefulness in worse positions. Even when your structure is compromised you keep posing problems and often bounce back to equalise.

Recurring Issues to Address

1. Chronic time pressure. Five of the last seven losses ended on the clock, not the board. Even won positions (see the loss vs Tekushka) slipped away because of single-second scrambles. • Action plan: add two weekly sessions of increment only blitz (e.g. 3 + 2). Focus on playing “healthy” moves quickly rather than searching for the absolute best.
2. Endgame conversion. When the fireworks finish, your technique sometimes stalls (e.g. in the French loss where 39…Rxa3! kept your passer but you flagged later). • Action plan: devote 15 minutes/day to rook-and-pawn drills on a trainer; rehearse the basic Lucena/Philidor setups until they become muscle memory.
3. Handling of opposite-wing attacks. In several Sicilians you castle short while launching the typical …g6 Dragon set-up, yet pawn storms arrive faster than your counterplay (e.g. loss to Natalya_Buksa). • Action plan: add the classical Yugoslav model games to your study list; pay special attention to early …h5 ideas that slow g-pawn pushes.

Opening-Specific Tips

• Sicilian Dragon / Accelerated setups. Your 6…g6 line is sound, but after 9…Bg7 you can improve with 11…0-0 before launching …Qa5. This lets your rook join via c8 without losing a tempo later.
• French Schlechter (as White). Instead of 5. Bf3 you might explore the main line 5.Nd2, keeping pieces coordinated and dodging Black’s quick …c5/…Nc6 plan that cost you time in the loss vs Tekushka.
• Ruy López → Caro variation. In the 8…f6 game you punished …f6 excellently. One nugget: after 14.Rxe5+ you can often delay Bxf4 and play 15.d4! first, opening files while Black’s king is stuck.

Training Menu (4-Week Micro-Cycle)

Quick Stats & Visuals

Blitz peak: 2471 (2021-12-18)
Performance trends:

Game of the Week

The following miniature is a great reminder of how dangerous your initiative can be when you keep the pace high:

Inspirational Opponents

Revisit your duels with these strong rivals for fresh ideas: Lilit Mkrtchian, Nataliya Buksa.

Final Thoughts

Your creativity already places you among the top attacking players in online blitz. Tightening up the clock management and polishing a few technical endings could easily add the next 100-150 rating points. Keep enjoying the game and trust the process—great results will follow!