Kirill Kozionov IM

Recent Game Performance Overview

Kirill, your recent rapid games show solid performance, with a strong positive win-loss record and consistent results in several openings. You've won 31 games, lost 6, and have yet to have a draw in the dataset provided, reflecting an aggressive playing style that aims decisively for victory.

What You're Doing Well

• Opening Preparation: You have excellent results with openings like the Sicilian Defense Najdorf Variation, French Defense Exchange Variation, Blackburne Shilling Gambit, and others — all with 100% win rates across multiple games. This implies strong understanding and comfort in these lines.
• Consistent Strategic Play: Games such as the swift checkmate victory seen against Gleb018 reveal good tactical awareness and attacking capabilities, especially in positions that favor active piece play.
• Steady Rating and Trend: Your rating trend over the past 6-12 months has a positive slope, with a small but steady increase in rating (around 4 points over recent months). Your strength-adjusted win rate of about 68% is a strong figure indicating competitive consistency against players of similar strength.

Areas for Improvement

• Handling Complex Positions: Looking at your recent loss against kevinReyes9, the position deteriorated after an important sacrifice by your opponent. Stronger focus on defensive technique and calculation might help in these volatile middlegame situations where material balance swings quickly.
• Time Management: In your losses and challenging moments, your clock time drops significantly (sometimes under 2 minutes remaining). Improving your speed of accurate evaluation and quicker decision-making will help maintain pressure and avoid time trouble blunders in rapid games.
• Expanding Openings: While your current openings are yielding excellent results, broadening your repertoire to also include openings where you may currently have less success, such as the QGD Tarrasch variation, will make you less predictable and give you a wider strategic toolkit.
• Capitalizing on Opponent Errors: In several games, opponents resigned or lost on time when you had a decent advantage. Strengthening endgame technique and conversion skills can help ensure that promising positions always translate into full points.

Recommendations for Next Steps

• Review critical games with opponents who operate sharp, tactical lines. Focus on calculation accuracy and recognizing opponent threats early.
• Practice time-controlled tactical puzzles to improve your speed and accuracy under pressure.
• Experiment with new opening lines in casual or training games based on your current successful openings to avoid being one-dimensional.
• Work on nuanced endgame knowledge, especially minor piece endings and rook endings that appear frequently in your games.
• Consider regular analysis or coaching to dig deeper into complex game moments where evaluation was unclear or errors occurred.