Overall Performance and Progress
Wojciech Reza, your recent blitz games show a promising upward trend in your rating, with a notable 1 month rating increase of 82 points and a 3 month gain of 99 points. These improvements indicate strong progress and effective learning in your play. However, the 1 month rating trend slope hints at a slight recent dip, suggesting some fluctuations in performance that are natural in fast-paced games.
Your strength-adjusted win rate of about 41% suggests a solid competitive level, but also room for improvement to increase consistency against similarly rated or higher rated opponents.
Opening Play and Variety
You've been playing a variety of openings including Chess960, Three-Check, and Crazyhouse variants, which adds a creative and dynamic dimension to your chess. In standard openings, you tend to use lines like the French Defense, Alekhine’s Defense, and English Opening, showing versatility.
- In your Chess960 games, you successfully utilized Queens Pawn setups and aggressive pawn pushes, but watch for tactical vulnerabilities especially in complex midgames where opponent counter-threats appeared.
- In Three-Check games, quick tactical awareness is crucial, and you had some wins by leveraging aggressive attacks on the king, though a few losses came from sharp attacking play by your opponents. Consider reinforcing tactics and slow defensive techniques in this variant.
- In Crazyhouse, focus on controlling key squares and piece drops, as mistakes can quickly lead to losses. Your play here was mixed, an area to possibly dedicate training time.
Game-Specific Feedback
Your recent wins show good tactical execution, especially the ability to capitalize on opponent mistakes and convert advantages into checkmate or resignation wins. For example, in one game you executed a strong central pawn push leading to a winning endgame position.
In losses, time management was an issue occasionally as multiple games ended with you losing on time. Improving quick but accurate decision-making under time pressure can significantly improve your results.
Also, some losses stemmed from sharp attacking openings by opponents causing you to lose quickly to mating threats. Building familiarity with common attacking patterns and defensive resources in the openings you face will help avoid early setbacks.
Recommendations for Improvement
- Time Management: Practice playing with a clock and work on making sound moves quicker, especially in the opening and early middlegame, to avoid time-pressure mistakes.
- Tactical Training: Regularly solve tactics puzzles focusing on checkmating motifs, pins, forks, discovered attacks especially useful in Three-Check and Chess960 games.
- Opening Preparation: Deepen your understanding of your key openings to confidently handle aggressive attempts by opponents and avoid early trap losses.
- Endgame Skills: Focus on key endgame techniques as several wins were won by good transitions into favorable endgames.
- Review Lost Games: Analyze your losses carefully to identify recurring mistakes or weaknesses in your play.
Additional Resources
You can revisit detailed moves and positions from your recent games here for self-review: