krkut

Hi krkut! 👋 Your personalised chess feedback

Quick snapshot

• Current Rapid rating peak: 882 (2025-06-06)
• Recent score (last 10 games): 5 wins – 5 losses
• Typical time you play best: see

• Consistency by weekday:

What you’re already doing well

• Fighting spirit. Even in slightly worse positions you keep looking for tactics and often turn games around.
• Open-centre play. With 1.e4 followed by d4 you usually seize space and create early threats. Your win against dittas_86 is a good example – you obtained a mobile pawn centre and used it to open lines toward the king.
• Piece-activity mindset. In most of your victories every piece eventually joins the attack (knights on outposts, bishops on long diagonals, rooks actively doubled).

Most frequent issues & how to fix them

1. King safety first – pawn pushes can back-fire

In four of your last five losses you advanced the f- or h- pawns very early, leaving dark-square holes around your king. Opponents exploited those holes with simple tactics (e.g. 33.Qg8# vs paktu_bali). Ask yourself before pushing a flank pawn:

1. “Will this create a hook the opponent can open?”
2. “Is my king already castled or at least safe?”
3. “Are my minor pieces developed enough to cover the squares I’m weakening?”

Practical tip: delay aggressive pawn storms until you have castled and connected rooks.

2. Development > early queen raids

Several openings (Smith-Morra, Center Game, gambits) tempt you to bring the queen out on move 3–4. Against inaccurate play this wins pawns, but when opponents reply correctly you fall behind in tempo and have to defend. Try experimenting with a more solid repertoire for one week:

• As White: Italian Game or Scotch Four Knights.
• As Black: Scandinavian is fine, but meet 1.d4 with the Queen’s Gambit Declined setup (…d5, …e6, …Nf6, …Be7).

This will let you practise classical development patterns.

3. Tactical alertness – spot your opponent’s shots

Your attacking ideas are imaginative, yet you sometimes overlook basic tactics against you (forks on e3/e6, back-rank mates). Try 15 minutes of puzzle rush before starting a playing session; aim for 20+ in the 3-minute mode. Concentrate on:
• Knight forks
• Queen & rook mating nets
• Pins on diagonals (especially your own e- and g- files)

4. End-game practice

Many games finish before move 30, so you haven’t had much end-game experience. When you do reach an ending, piece coordination can be shaky. Spend a couple of days on basic king-and-pawn endings and the “Lucena” rook technique; it will boost confidence when the fireworks end.

Targeted exercise

Load the following critical position from your loss to Zoker_19. Try to find a defensive resource for White instead of the game continuation that allowed …g6#.

Next-week training plan

1. 10 tactical puzzles every day (focus on mates in 2–3).
2. Play three 10|0 games, forcing yourself to castle by move 10.
3. Review those games for one blunder and one good move each.
4. Study one annotated master game in the Italian Game and one in the Queen’s Gambit Declined.

Keep up the fighting attitude, tidy up the king’s shelter, and your rating will climb quickly. Good luck and enjoy your chess! ♟️