Coach Chesswick
Feedback for Antonio Naranjo Moreno
Antonio, you have demonstrated solid tactical awareness and resilience in your recent games, showing good potential. Here are some specific observations and suggestions to help you improve further:
Strengths
- Opening Preparation: Your choice of openings like the Sicilian Defense, French Winawer, and Ruy Lopez Exchange shows a willingness to engage with rich, theoretical lines. You understand key motifs like pawn breaks and piece activity.
- Dynamic Play: You manage to create and exploit imbalances well, using piece activity and tactical shots to press opponents, especially in middle games.
- Endgame Technique: In several wins, you converted advantages patiently and accurately. Staying composed in complex endgames is an important strength.
Areas for Improvement
- Time Management: Some games show a significant time drop on critical moves. Developing a more consistent time allocation strategy will help you avoid time pressure that can lead to mistakes.
- Positional Understanding: Although tactical play is strong, some losses reveal difficulties in handling strategic decisions, like pawn structure weaknesses or piece coordination. Studying positional concepts more deeply will increase your long-term proficiency.
- Defensive Play: In a few losses, you encountered pressure from your opponent that was difficult to relieve. Work on defensive techniques such as prophylaxis, counterplay, and active piece placement when under attack.
- Calculation Depth: Improving your calculation accuracy especially in sharp positions will minimize tactical oversights. Use puzzles and analyze your own games critically to spot missed tactics.
Recommended Study Focus
- Review key moments from your recent losses to identify recurring patterns in mistakes.
- Work on classic middle-game positional themes such as weak squares, outposts, and pawn majority utilization.
- Practice time management drills to balance speed and accuracy.
- Train calculation with a focus on double checks, forks, pins, and discovered attacks.
Keep up the effort, Antonio! With focused study on these areas, your overall game strength will continue to rise.