Hi LileKoridze!
Congratulations on maintaining a high blitz rating (current peak: 2538 (2024-03-10)). Your recent session produced a strong + % win-rate against a wide rating range, yet a few slip-ups cost you games you were otherwise controlling. Below is a concise performance review and training plan.
Quick trend snapshot
- Activity curve:
- Weekly consistency:
Strengths to keep leveraging
- Resourceful counter-play. Your wins against jitulroy and 777PEACEFUL777 show you are calm when defending and can seize tactical chances quickly.
- Piece coordination in rook endings. The conversion in the Slav win (…56 b8=Q!) was technically clean and highlights good rook activity awareness.
- Diverse opening repertoire. You successfully employ both 1.d4 and 1.e4 as White and answer 1.e4 with Sicilian structures, reducing predictability vs frequent opponents.
Recurring problems
- Misjudging danger vs low-rated players. Two losses (e.g. vs 811 and 925) started with completely winning positions but collapsed after one tactic. Remind yourself that board moves, not ratings, decide the game.
- Loose king in sharp Sicilians. Both the 777PEACEFUL777 and Mirai_Kuriyama_JPN defeats followed the same script: …h6 / …g6 structures, light-square weaknesses, and a late …h5 that opened files toward your king.
- Premature pawn breaks in the centre. In the Larsen loss you played …e5, …c5 and …e4 in quick succession without completing development. This invited Nd5 / Qe4 tactics and material loss.
- Clock handling in winning endings. In the QGD vs WorstPatzer2 you spent 55 s between moves 24–30 while converting an extra pawn, then blundered under 20 s. Guard against “analysis paralysis” once the position is strategically won.
Illustrative moment
From your loss vs Pyroxdu93 (811). After 25…Nd4? the queen infiltration became unstoppable.
Try to find an improvement for Black before revealing the engine. The critical idea is guarding d5 first (…Rd2!?), then offering a queen exchange.
Action plan (two-week micro-cycle)
| Day | Focus | Tools |
|---|---|---|
| 1-3 | King-safety drills (fianchetto structures) | Chess.com “Defensive motifs”, search for zwischenzug themes. |
| 4-6 | Play 10 rapid games (10 + 0) with strict “no premove until move 15” rule to slow down opening decisions. | Annotate afterwards; flag every pawn move made before development finished. |
| 7-9 | Endgame timer training: rook & pawn vs rook, 30 s per side. | Lichess board editor or your favourite end-game app. |
| 10-13 | Opening tidy-up. Prepare one crisp anti-Alapin line; refresh your Dutch/QGD sidelines. | Create a 15-move “flash-card” repertoire file; review daily. |
| 14 | Rest & blindfold mini-match (3 games). | Boost visualisation; no engine assistance. |
Checkpoint goals
- Reduce average time spent per move in winning positions from 6 s → 3 s.
- Blitz king-safety blunder rate < 4 % (now ~8 %).
- Reach +30 rating points with a ≤ 20 % loss rate to players rated under 2000.
Final encouragement
Your tactical eye and confidence produce exciting games. By tightening king safety and decision speed in “won” positions you’ll convert more of those advantages and push through the 2500 barrier. Good luck, and keep the games coming!