What is working well
Your attacking instincts are genuinely strong, and the win over MR-OBSESSION shows the best version of your chess. You chose the sharp Sicilian Defense with the early bishop pin, castled long, pushed your f pawn and then threw everything at the enemy king. The way you kept finding checks and forcing moves once the position opened up, finishing with a clean checkmate, is exactly the skill that makes you dangerous in blitz.
You also show real courage in messy positions. In the long game against Oleg Badmatsyrenov you built a huge kingside storm with pawns on the march and were still creating threats deep into the ending. That willingness to play for the win instead of drifting is a genuine asset.
Your Sicilian Najdorf results back this up as one of your most reliable openings, so keep trusting it and keep building your feel for the typical attacking patterns.
Priority one: stop losing on the clock
The biggest leak in this set of games is not the chess, it is the clock. Two of the losses, against Oleg Badmatsyrenov (review this game) and Koby Kalavannan (review this game), ended with you down to a fraction of a second. In both you were still fighting and creating chances, so those results were decided by time rather than by the position.
- Decide on a rough time budget early: aim to reach the first time control checkpoint with a comfortable reserve rather than spending it all on the opening and early middlegame.
- When a position is sharp, use a short burst of thinking on the critical move, then move quickly on obvious recaptures and forced sequences. Do not burn seconds on moves that only have one sensible answer.
- Watch for time trouble creeping in around move 25 to 30. That is where your clock starts to collapse, and it is where a couple of deep breaths and a simple, safe move can save you.
- Practise playing long endgames with a strict budget so the habit becomes automatic under pressure.
Priority two: the French as Black
The loss to Hyoukami (review this game) came from a French Defense structure where you played the advance lines with Black. Your overall record in the sharper Winawer branch of that opening is noticeably weaker than your other main lines, while the simpler advance setups work much better for you. That is a useful signal.
- Pick one or two French branches you actually enjoy and study them properly, rather than spreading yourself across the whole tree.
- In those structures the key question is always what to do with your bad bishop and how to create counterplay against the pawn chain. Train those plans specifically.
- If a line keeps giving you difficult positions, drop it for a while. There is no prize for loyalty to an opening that keeps landing you in trouble.
Priority three: converting and holding endgames
Several of these games reached deep endings, and that is actually a compliment to your play. The improvement is in the technique once the queens come off. Against Kyle Lancman you went down in a Benoni structure after the position simplified, and against Hyoukami you were defending a knight and bishop ending with passed pawns on both wings.
- Spend dedicated practice time on rook and minor piece endings, especially positions with a passed pawn on each side. Knowing the standard drawing and winning setups saves enormous time and stress.
- Before every trade in the middlegame, ask whether the resulting ending favours you. Trading into a slightly worse ending because the pieces came off is a common way to lose a good game.
- When you are defending, prioritise activity over material when the pawn count is low. Passive defence is what usually loses those long grinds.
Next steps
You are clearly a strong attacking player with a taste for sharp, double edged positions, and your rating trend over the last few months is moving in the right direction. The fastest route to a bigger jump is simple: keep your attacking edge, protect your clock, and tighten up the endings. If you cut even half of the games lost purely on time, your results will improve quickly without changing your style at all.