Əli

Hi Əli, here is your personalised chess feedback

• Your current peak in Rapid: 751 (2025-02-28)
• When you play most:

• Best days of the week:

1. What you’re already doing well

• Tactical alertness: In several wins you spot knight forks (e.g. 23…Nf3+ in your latest Englund Gambit) and double–attacks quickly. That’s a valuable skill at your rating.
• Piece activity: You often bring rooks to open files (…Rd8, Re8, Rxe4, etc.) and aren’t afraid to trade into favourable endgames.
• Fighting spirit: Even after early inaccuracies you keep the game complicated and give your opponent tough decisions—excellent for practical play.

2. Biggest improvement areas (ranked)

a) Time management & game completion

• You lost several games by abandoning or flagging, sometimes from equal or better positions (e.g. vs. ignaciodelcura). Avoid giving away “free points”.
• Action plan:
  1. Use the opening phase to gain time on the clock by playing a familiar setup.
  2. When you’re up material, simplify quickly—trade pieces, not pawns—so decisions become easier and faster.
  3. Practise 5-minute puzzles with a visible timer to get comfortable thinking under time pressure.

b) Opening fundamentals

• Early queen adventures (10.Qf5, 11.Qf5 etc.) and “horse–jumps” like 4…Na6/6…Ng8 waste tempi and invite counter-play.
• You do best when you follow three basics: develop pieces, fight for the centre, castle early. Every move that does not serve one of those goals should be questioned.
• Action plan:
  1. Pick one mainline opening as White (e.g. Italian or Scotch) and one as Black (e4 → Scandinavian, d4 → Queen’s Gambit Declined). Play them for a month to build automatic development moves.
  2. After each game, compare your first 10 moves with a master game—are you violating principles?

c) King safety & pawn grabbing

• Several losses stem from grabbing pawns (…Qxa2, …Bxa2, …Qxh2) while your own king lingers in the centre. Opponents then gain initiative and time.
• Rule of thumb: If your opponent’s pieces are more active than yours, do not take a pawn unless it comes with a concrete tactic such as a fork or check.
• Action plan: Set a mental checkpoint: “Is my king safe?” before every capture.

d) Defensive alertness

• The mating nets vs. black_kobar and sloypoo show missed back-rank and diagonal mating ideas.
• Practice the “danger levels” routine: when the opponent makes a forcing move (check, capture, threat), pause and look for your king’s worst threat first—before planning your own attack.

3. Illustrated example – recent win

Below is your most recent victory with the Englund Gambit. Replay it and ask yourself after each move: “Was this the cleanest way to convert?”

[[Pgn|[Event "Live Chess"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2025.05.26"] [White "FCCurieArrasZOO"] [Black "lyas60"] [Result "0-1"] 1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 Bc5 3.g3 d6 4.Nf3 Na6 5.Bg2 Nh6 6.O-O Ng8 7.c4 Bf5 8.Bg5 f6 9.Bf4 dxe5 10.Qxd8+ Rxd8 11.Bd2 e4 12.Nh4 Ne7 13.Nxf5 Nxf5 14.Bxe4 Nd4 15.Re1 f5 16.Bd3 O-O 17.Bg5 Bb4 18.Nc3 Rde8 19.e3 Ne6 20.Rad1 Nxg5 21.a3 Bxc3 22.bxc3 Nc5 23.f4 Nf3+ 24.Kf2 Nxe1 25.Rxe1 Nxd3+ 0-1]]

4. Training menu (next 4 weeks)

1. 15 min / day – tactics
   • Focus on mate-in-2, mate-in-3, and basic forks/pins. Use the timer to simulate game pressure.
2. 10 min / day – endgame fundamentals
   • King & pawn vs. king, basic rook endings (Lucena & Philidor). This will help you convert material leads when clocks run low.
3. Play 2 rapid (10 | 0) games every session
   • After each game, spend 5 minutes annotating: “Biggest mistake? Best move?” Even one insight per game compounds fast.
4. Weekly review
   • Pick your sharpest loss and try to defend from the critical position against the engine until you find the saving move.

5. Motivational checkpoint

Your rating is already climbing; tighten up time usage and king safety and you’ll break the 800 barrier quickly. Stay curious, review each game, and enjoy the process. Good luck, Əli!