Supratit Banerjee FM

Game Review and Feedback for Supratit Banerjee

Hi Supratit, great work on your recent games! Here's some constructive feedback to help you improve further based on your most recent games.

Strengths

• Opening Repertoire: You have a solid understanding of classical openings such as the French Defense and Alapin Sicilian, which you play frequently and confidently. This gives you a stable foundation from the start.
• Active Piece Play: In several games, you demonstrated a good sense of piece activity and tactical awareness, such as moves involving active knight maneuvers (e.g., Nc5 and Na4 in your recent French Defense game).
• Endgame Technique: You showed strong endgame skills, including advancing passed pawns and precise checkmating patterns.

Areas for Improvement

• Tactical Awareness Against Counterattacks: In a few games, opponents created strong counterplay that was difficult to handle. For example, in the recent loss against Alligatorsnappingturtle, your defense weakened after 23...Rb4 and 27...Qxb2 leading to significant pressure. Watching for potential tactical motifs or threats earlier could help you anticipate and neutralize these counterattacks.
• Handling Pawn Structure: In a couple of games, pawn weaknesses and isolated pawns became targets (e.g., weaknesses on queenside pawn chains in Alapin Sicilian lines). Focus on maintaining healthy pawn structure and avoid creating too many isolated or backward pawns that can be exploited.
• Time Management: Your time usage is generally good, but in sharper moments, consider allocating extra seconds to the critical moves to avoid oversight errors, especially when the position becomes tactical or unbalanced.

Specific Suggestions

• Deepen Opening Study: Although your openings are sound, expanding your knowledge of key ideas and typical tactical themes in your favorite lines (French Defense and Alapin Sicilian) will help you navigate middlegames with more confidence.
• Practice Calculation Exercises: Focus on solving tactics puzzles that enhance your vision of forks, pins, and discovered attacks. This will help you spot threats and opportunities better.
• Review Endgames: Continue practicing basic and intermediate endgames. Your ability to convert should remain consistent, and increasing your knowledge here can gain you more points in close games.

Let’s look at a key moment from your recent win:

1. e4 c5
2. c3 Nf6
3. e5 Nd5
4. Nf3 d6
5. exd6 Qxd6
6. d4 cxd4
7. cxd4 Nc6
8. Nc3 Nxc3
9. bxc3 g6
10. Bd3 Bg7
11. O-O O-O
12. a4 Bg4
13. Ba3 Qd7
14. h3 Bxf3
15. Qxf3 Rfc8
16. Rfe1 e6
17. Rad1 Ne7
18. Bb5 Qc7
19. Bd3 Nd5
20. c4 Nc3
21. Rc1 Nxa4
22. d5 Nc5
23. Bc2 exd5
24. cxd5 Qd7
25. Re2 b6
26. Rce1 Re8
27. d6 Rad8
28. Re7 f5
29. Qd5+ Kh8
30. Qf7 Rg8
31. Bb2 Ne6
32. Rxe6 Qxe6
33. Bxg7+ Rxg7
34. Qxg7# 
  

The final strategic buildup and queen maneuvers are very instructive here. You effectively built pressure on Black’s king position and coordinated your pieces well.

Summary

Keep up the solid opening play and dynamic piece activity. Work on improving your tactical awareness to address opponent counterplay and reinforce your pawn structures. Regular practice with tactical puzzles and endgame studies will further enhance your consistency and help you convert winning positions confidently.

Looking forward to seeing your progress, Supratit! Keep analyzing your games and playing actively.