Migchiel de Jong IM

Hi Migchiel de Jong!

You have been playing a lot of chess lately, and the data shows clear strong points as well as growth opportunities. Below you will find a brief dashboard followed by detailed feedback.

Your Activity at a Glance

Peak blitz rating: 2646 (2022-10-07)

What You’re Doing Well

• Reliable Repertoire. You steer both sides of the French Defense and related queen-pawn openings with confidence, scoring clean wins in your Daily games.
• Tactical Vision. Your win against juuliepuul finished with 24.Bg7+!, a nice example of combining pieces on dark squares. Keep nurturing this tactical awareness with regular Puzzle Rush sessions.
• End-game Technique (when the clock allows). The rook-and-pawn conversion versus Michaelisnotahost010 was smooth—accurate pawn counting, good king activation, and no unnecessary risks.

Main Improvement Themes

1. Clock Management.
   All five most-recent Live losses were on time. Example: against Carlos Felipe Squella Lavin you reached a roughly equal rook-ending but flagged on move 49.
   Action plan:
   • Switch from 3 | 0 to 3 | 2 or 5 | 5 until flagging stops.
   • Play “hand-brain” blitz sessions: force yourself to move within 5 seconds for the first 15 moves, then slow down.
   • Do one daily session of 3-minute Chess.com Drills to build a faster “pattern cache.”
2. Handling Winawer Pawn Storms.
   In the loss to live4makingherhappy you pushed h-pawns early, weakening g3/f3 squares and inviting Black’s queenside counterplay. Compare your approach with model games by GM Short—note how White delays h4 until Black castles.
   Exercise: load the critical phase below and try to find safer plans before revealing the moves.
   [[Pgn| 12. h3 Nb6 13. Bb3 Bd6 14. g3 Nb6 15. h4 Nbd5 16. Ne4 … ]]
3. Critical Moment Evaluation.
   Versus Carlos Felipe Squella Lavin (moves 22–30) you spent half your time choosing between 22.Bxf4 and 22.g4. Both were playable, but the clock damage was fatal.
   Drill: After each move ask, “Is the position tactically sharp or strategic? If the answer is strategic, cap your thinking time at 10 seconds in blitz.

Targeted Study Menu

Next Steps

• Keep a one-sentence diary after each live game (“Lost thread after …, need to trust first impression”).
• Schedule a weekly 30-min self-review of your worst time-trouble positions; focus on why you hesitated—calculation overload or lack of plan?
• When comfortable, re-enter 3 | 0 pools and monitor the

Good luck, push those pawns with purpose, and—most importantly—enjoy your games!