Coach Chesswick
Performance Review for Masoud “Masmos97” Mosadeghpour
Current peak blitz rating: 2997 (2023-01-11). Recent victories over grandmasters such as Hikaru and GMBenjaminBok highlight your top-tier potential.
Major Strengths
- Ambitious opening repertoire. Your Alapin, Smith-Morra and Ruy López setups reliably deliver pleasant structures and initiative.
- Tactical alertness. Combinations like 32. Rxf6+! against Bok underline first-class calculation skills under pressure.
- Dynamic piece play. You excel at building momentum, often forcing opponents into passive defence before move 20.
- Mental resilience. Even in sharp time scrambles you find resourceful moves and swindles.
Growth Opportunities
- Clock management. Two latest defeats (vs. Oleksandr_Bortnyk, FairChess_on_YouTube) were time-forfeits from winning or equal positions. Aim to enter endgames with ≥30 s plus increment.
- Endgame conversion. Games against nurgyulsalimova and baki83 exposed technique gaps in rook-and-pawn endings and pawn races.
- Pawn over-extension. Early h-/g-pawn thrusts (e.g., vs. Salimova) sometimes left holes your opponents exploited.
- Black repertoire depth. Losses in the Alekhine and Caro-Kann suggest refreshing main-line theory and typical plans.
Actionable Training Plan
- Time-control drills. Play 10 daily 3 + 1 games focusing on practical, safe moves once below 40 s. Review only the final two minutes with an engine.
- Endgame routine. Spend 15 min/day on rook-and-pawn studies. Master Lucena, Philidor and Vancura positions, then solve practical exercises.
- Opening maintenance.
- Add a solid sideline against 1…Nf6 (e.g., 4.Nf3 Alekhine) to minimise theory and clock drain.
- For Black, revisit recent GM games in the Classical Sicilian or advance-variation Caro-Kann—structures you already know from the White side.
- Tactical stamina. Solve 20 puzzles/day with a strict 30-second limit per puzzle to mimic blitz calculation tempo.
- Weekly self-review. Annotate one win and one loss each week, focusing on why decisions were made rather than engine scores. Log three takeaways per game.
Illustrative Highlight
The following fragment from your win over Bok demonstrates outstanding coordination and king-hunt instincts:
Progress Trackers
Monitor when you score best to optimise practice times:
Key Concepts to Revisit
Zeitnot, Philidor position, Prophylaxis
Implementing the above regimen over the next four weeks should translate your evident attacking class into even steadier tournament results. Keep up the outstanding work!