What you’re doing well in blitz
You’ve shown strong adaptability in Chess960, handling unusual starting positions with quick development and active piece coordination. Your opening choices align with solid, dynamic plans, and you consistently look for chances to seize the initiative in the middlegame. In tense battles, you often keep pressure on your opponents and find tactical opportunities to convert advantages into wins. When you gain momentum, you’re good at coordinating pieces to create threats and finish games efficiently.
Key areas to focus on for faster improvement
- Time management in blitz: You sometimes reach critical moments with little time left. Develop a simple plan to pace the opening and middlegame and practice quick, safe decision-making in the first 15–20 moves.
- Endgame proficiency: Several games head into rook endings or imbalanced positions. Strengthen rook endgames and practical technique to convert small advantages or defend tough positions.
- Opening consolidation: Your English Opening and Nimzo-Larsen Attack show strong results. Consider building a compact, manageable 2–3 opening repertoire around these and reduce reliance on more speculative lines that have lower win rates.
- Tactical pattern recognition: Regular puzzle practice focused on checks, forcing lines, and typical tactical motifs will help you spot strong continuations faster in blitz.
Recommended openings to lean on
Your strongest recent results come from the English Opening, Nimzo-Larsen Attack, and the London System line. These tend to provide solid structures and clear middlegame plans, helping you maintain the initiative. Keeping a focused, practical repertoire around these can reduce guesswork and save time in blitz.
Two-week training plan
- Daily: 15 minutes of tactical puzzles, emphasizing checks and forcing moves to build quick calculation skills.
- Openings: twice this week, 1-hour study sessions on English/Nimzo-Larsen/London System variants with a one-page cheat sheet for typical middlegame ideas.
- Endgames: two 20-minute rook-and-pawn endgame practice sessions to improve technique under pressure.
- Post-game review: after each blitz game, write one sentence about the key turning point and an alternative plan you could have chosen.
Next targets
Aim to increase consistency in your top openings and strengthen endgame conversion, so you can hold or convert advantages even when the clock is tight.