Neuris Delgado Ramirez GM

Feedback for Neuris Delgado Ramirez

Based on your recent games, you demonstrate solid opening preparation, particularly in the Van 't Kruijs Opening and some variations of the Sicilian Defense. Your understanding of structure and tactical motives is commendable, and you showed effective technique in finishing games decisively with checkmates and capitalizing on opponent mistakes.

Strengths

• Opening Play: Your choice of flexible and less common openings like 1.e3 and 1.d4 with active piece development gives you a surprise factor, which you often convert into initiative.
• Tactical Alertness: Many of your victories involve sharp tactical continuation and exploiting opponent oversights, showing your calculation skills are strong.
• Endgame Technique: You manage to convert advantages well, for example by forcing resignations and checkmates comfortably in the last phase of the game.
• Time Management: You keep decent clock times in standard time controls which helps you maintain accuracy even in complex positions.

Areas to Improve

• Pawn Structure and Positional Play: In some games, pawn breaks and structural decisions led to weaknesses (isolated or doubled pawns, pawn islands). Focus on thematic pawn structures in your openings to avoid these problems.
• Middle-game Planning: While your tactics are good, improving your strategic planning in complicated middlegames can help you avoid lost positions early on and keep pressure more consistently.
• Defending Under Pressure: A few losses resulted from running short on time or giving up key squares that allowed your opponent to advance. Practicing defense and simplification techniques under time pressure will be helpful.
• Piece Coordination: Sometimes piece placements could be optimized before launching attacks, particularly knights and bishops needing better outposts or more active postures.

Suggestions for Training

• Review pawn structures in the openings you play, focusing on thematic plans and possible transitions into middle games.
• Study classic positional middlegames to boost your understanding of long-term advantages and prophylactic moves.
• Practice defending inferior but playable positions under clock pressure, via online training or tactical puzzles.
• Analyze your losses carefully with engine assistance to identify recurring mistakes and missed defensive resources.

Overall, you are playing at a level that shows great potential. Concentrating on positional awareness and solidifying your defense will complement your strong tactical skills and help you progress further.

Keep up the great work and enjoy your journey in chess!

Recent Highlight:

Your recent victory by checkmate against Airquake (link to game below) highlighted your precise attacking play and tactical vision, finishing with a strong kingside assault.

View game vs Airquake