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Great job on your recent games! Your play demonstrates strong attacking ideas and good tactical awareness, as seen in your clear ability to convert advantageous positions into wins. Here are some points to help you improve even further:

Strengths

• Aggressive Play and Initiative: Your games show a willingness to take the initiative early, such as pushing pawns like f4 and g4 to launch kingside attacks. This proactive approach pays off well against your opponents.
• Tactical Awareness: You find good tactical shots, for example the successful sacrifices and sharp continuations (like 19. gxf7+ and subsequent attack) that create decisive threats.
• King Safety: Castling on both sides quickly and connecting your rooks is a good habit, improving your coordination and safety during the middle game.

Areas to Improve

• Opening Choice and Preparation: You employ aggressive lines in the Closed Sicilian and Ruy Lopez Arkhangelsk, which suits your style well. However, refining your opening repertoire with deeper theoretical knowledge will help avoid falling into inferior positions early on, as seen in some losses where opponents equalized comfortably.
• Endgame Technique: In your losses, there are moments where converting advantage or holding difficult positions could be improved, especially in complex endgames. Studying basic endgame principles and practicing technique will help maximize your results.
• Positional Understanding: Alongside tactics, focusing on improving strategic play and positional judgment, such as improving piece placement and pawn structure evaluation, will create more long-term advantages and fewer defensive puzzles for you.

Suggestions for Practice

• Analyze your losses carefully to identify recurring themes or mistakes, particularly where the opening or tactical oversight led to disadvantage.
• Work on common tactical motifs in your openings — forks, pins, discovered attacks — to sharpen your calculation speed.
• Practice endgame fundamentals like king and pawn endings, rook endings, and basic mating patterns to boost confidence when games reach the later phase.
• Consider reviewing pawn structure concepts to better understand how to improve your center control and coordinate attacks based on pawn chains.

Keep up the hard work and sharp tactical mindset! Your level of play is already strong, and with focused study on openings and endgames, you can climb even higher.