Coach Chesswick
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
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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.”
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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 … ]] -
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
| Openings vs Scandinavian 3…Qa5 | Review the modern 6. d4-d5 lines from GM Giri’s games. |
| French Winawer as Black | Learn the Poisoned Pawn sideline to reduce surprise value for White. |
| End-game Speed Training | Solve 10 R+P vs R studies every week; aim for 20 seconds/diagram. |
| Practical Psychology | Read Aagaard’s chapter on Zeitnot; apply the “chunk, decide, trust” routine. |
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!