Coach Chesswick
Hi SkilmirF! 🎯 Personalized Post-Game Feedback
Great job keeping your Blitz rating near 2706 (2025-02-25) and scoring convincing wins such as your recent attacking victory against franpalaciosll. Below is a concise review of your current strengths, growth areas, and a practical plan you can follow over the next two weeks.
1. Your Emerging Strengths
- Dynamic opening choices. You switch comfortably between 1.e4 and 1.d4 setups, showing good knowledge of the Alapin Sicilian, the Modern, and several English/Indian hybrids.
- Active piece play. In your win versus FranPalaciosLL you seized the initiative with 21.hxg5 hxg5 22.f4!, creating constant threats until Black collapsed.
- Killer instinct with the initiative. Games against heroman97 and UstadJrr show you’re comfortable converting dynamic edges into tactical finishes.
- Quick tactical vision. Motifs such as Nd7–Nb6–Nd7 (game vs newchesscorner64) highlight repeated use of forks and overloaded pieces.
2. Main Improvement Targets
- Early pawn advances that soften your own position.
• Loss vs liulimeng — 9…b5 & 11…c5 left weak dark squares. 13…Ne4?! 15…e5? accelerated your collapse.
• Study the concept of pawn chains and light-/dark-square strategy (see outposts, weakness). - Transition from middlegame to endgame.
• Against burbur555 you were still equal on move 30 but drifted into a lost B-vs-bishop ending.
• Spend 15 minutes daily on basic rook & minor-piece endings (Opposite bishops, Lucena/Philidor). - Time-management under pressure.
• You ran under 40 seconds as early as move 18 vs ChicagoblitzerTim and never recovered.
• Adopt a “30-second rule”: bank at least 0 : 30 on your clock before move 20 by trusting preparation and avoiding double-checking obvious moves. - Concrete calculation before pawn breaks.
• In the loss below, the thematic strike 15…e5? opened lines for White. Spend extra ply verifying such pawn breaks.
3. Micro-Study Plan (Next 14 Days)
- Warm-up (5 min / session) — flash-card tactics, focusing on defensive motifs (block, interpose, perpetual).
- Opening clinic (10 min) — choose one Black system vs. 1.d4 (recommend the ...d5 → ...e6 → ...c5 Triangle) and build a 15-move memory line.
- Middlegame review (15 min)
• Re-watch two of your own games with the engine OFF until move 20, write one sentence on each critical pawn push.
• Compare afterward with engine suggestions, noting only the first “big miss.” - Endgame drill (10 min) — play engine vs. you from R + 4 P vs R + 4 P with pawns on the same side until conversion is smooth.
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5. Motivation Corner
“When you see a good move, look for a better one… but keep your clock alive!”
— Adapted for Blitz warriors
Stick to the micro-plan, and do a short self-check after every 10 games. I’m confident you can cross the next milestone and cement a new peak soon. Good luck, and have fun!