Miragha Aghayev IM

Positive Aspects of Your Play

Miragha, your recent games demonstrate several strong points that are important for your continued progress:

• Consistent Winning Performance: Your overall record is very impressive, with 82 wins, only 4 losses, and 2 draws. This shows solid fundamentals and good game understanding.
• Strong Opening Repertoire: Your performance in various openings like the French Defense, London System Poisoned Pawn Variation, Barnes Defense, and Caro-Kann Defense has excellent win rates of 100%. This indicates good preparation and comfort in these positions.
• Improvement Trend: Your rating trend slopes over 1, 3, 6, and 12 months show positive improvement in your rating, especially the sharp rise in the latest month, which suggests active learning and progress.
• Endgame Technique: In your wins, you often convert advantages well and manage to win by checkmate or through sustained pressure.

Areas to Focus On for Improvement

Although your record is strong, even strong players can improve by focusing on certain parts of their play:

• Analyze and Learn from Losses: Your losses occurred mostly in older games, but reviewing them (especially against higher rated opponents) will help you identify recurring weaknesses, such as pawn structure weaknesses or falling prey to opponent attacks.
• Opening Refinement: Your Sicilian Defense shows a slightly lower win rate (66%). Considering you play multiple lines with very high success, focusing on refining your Sicilian could yield even more wins.
• Time Management: Some wins ended with opponents losing on time. Improving your own time usage and maintaining consistent calculation speed can increase your chances in tight positions.
• Positional Play: Although you convert tactics well, working on subtle strategic concepts such as piece activity, weak squares, and pawn breaks can help you create advantages more consistently.
• Endgame Knowledge: Keep studying basic and advanced endgames to ensure you can convert advantages efficiently and hold difficult positions confidently.

Training Recommendations

To continue your growth, consider these focused actions:

• Regularly analyze your games with a chess engine and try to understand the key turning points, especially in your losses.
• Practice your openings regularly and explore alternative ideas to broaden your understanding, particularly in openings with slightly lower win rates like the Sicilian Defense.
• Work on tactical puzzles daily to maintain sharp calculation skills and quick pattern recognition.
• Study positional chess through books or videos focusing on pawn structures and piece coordination.
• Play regular long games to improve your practical endgame technique and time management under pressure.

Summary

You are progressing well with a very strong record and solid understanding in key openings. Your upward rating trend is encouraging and reflects your consistent effort. Keep focusing on reviewing your losses, sharpening your openings, and improving your positional play. This will help you convert your evident potential into higher ratings and more consistent results.