Marco Antonio Delgado Romero

Overview of recent play

You have shown a willingness to enter dynamic, tactical lines and to seek active play. In your rapid games, you’ve faced a mix of sharp middlegames and strategic battles, and you’ve demonstrated resilience in complex positions. The focus now is to sharpen calculation, improve resilience in defense, and convert advantages into clear wins more consistently.

What you’re doing well

• You pursue active plans and look for ways to pressure the opponent’s king when lines open up.
• You’re flexible in your opening choices and can handle both classical and sharper, more aggressive setups.
• You maintain perseverance in tactical melees and keep working for concrete goals even when the position is unclear.

Immediate improvement goals

• Strengthen defense in sharp middlegames: before committing to aggressive plans, quickly verify that there aren’t forcing threats you miss. Build a habit of scanning for tactical resources your opponent may have.
• Endgame conversion: practice converting small advantages into wins. Focus on straightforward rook endings and simple queen endings, with a clear plan to activate the king and rooks.
• Time management in complex positions: aim to keep a steady pace and avoid getting into heavy time pressure in the middle of tactical sequences. Develop a routine to handle forced lines efficiently.
• Pawn structure discipline: when choosing aggressive pawn pushes, ensure you have a practical follow-up and avoid creating weaknesses (like isolated or doubled pawns) that your opponent can target later.

Openings performance snapshot

You show solid results across several openings and have a broad, adaptable repertoire. A productive path forward is to consolidate 2–3 openings as your core and keep a couple of surprise lines for surprise value. This helps you anticipate common middlegame plans and reduce uncertainty in the early phase of the game.

• Consider deepening the Caro-Kann and Scandinavian families, which you’ve used effectively in practice. Caro-Kann Defense Scandinavian Defense
• Explore strategic, slower transpositions in the Sicilian and related lines to gain familiarity with typical structures and endgames.
• Develop a short endgame-focused set of ideas that arise from these openings so you can convert small advantages more reliably.

Training plan for the next two weeks

• Daily tactic practice (15–20 minutes) concentrating on back-rank motifs, piece overloads, and queen activity in the middlegame.
• Study 2 openings in depth (Caro-Kann and Scandinavian): learn typical middlegame plans, common traps, and key move orders. Use placeholder resources for deeper study: Caro-Kann Defense Scandinavian Defense
• Endgame work: focus on rook endings and rook-plus-minor-piece endings with practical plans (activate rooks, centralize the king, create a pawn breakthrough).
• Review two recent games to identify one concrete improvement per game (for example, improve prophylaxis, improve king safety, or simplify in favorable positions).
• Play one longer training game per week and annotate it afterward to solidify lessons learned.

Optional study note

If you’d like, I can generate a focused training PGN highlight from your games to study specific patterns you’ve faced recently.