Coach Chesswick
Feedback for Alicja Sliwicka
Dear Alicja,
You've demonstrated strong tactical awareness and attacking potential in your recent games, especially in several victories where your initiative and calculation led to swift and elegant finishes. Your ability to seize opportunities in the middlegame and convert into winning endgames is impressive.
Strengths
- Active Play and Initiative: Your recent wins show excellent opening preparation and willingness to challenge your opponent early, creating complex positions.
- Strong Tactical Vision: Moves like sacrificial combinations and aggressive piece play have put your opponents under great pressure. Your calculation in forcing tactics is a reliable asset.
- Effective Use of Open Files and Diagonals: You consistently improve your pieces’ activity in the middlegame, effectively controlling key squares and creating threats.
Areas for Improvement
- Time Management: A few losses were influenced by time pressure leading to critical blunders or missed defensive resources. Working on better clock management could help maintain accuracy until the very end.
- Endgame Technique: While your attacking endings are strong, some games show opportunities to improve your technique in balanced or worse endgames where precise defensive moves could hold the position or even turn the tables.
- Opening Consistency: Occasionally, you faced challenges in positions arising from less familiar lines, such as in the Benoni and certain Sicilian variations. Deepening your opening repertoire knowledge, especially in key defensive structures, would solidify your position in the opening phase.
Next Steps for Training
- Review and analyze games lost to time trouble, and practice playing under time constraints to improve decision-making speed without sacrificing accuracy.
- Focus on studying fundamental endgame positions and practical techniques, both in pawn and piece endings.
- Refine your opening repertoire by revisiting critical variations you encountered, reviewing model games, and using targeted study to reinforce your comfort and understanding.
Overall, your chess is developing very well! Keep combining your tactical strengths with strategic improvements and careful time handling. Consistent practice and focused study will raise your play to the next level.
Keep up the great work and enjoy your chess journey!