What is working well
You are a genuinely dangerous attacking player. In your win against rebiscoooooo, you set up the Nimzo-Larsen Attack with the bishop on the long diagonal and then threw your queen and bishop at the black king. Swinging the queen to the h-file, checking with the bishop on g6, and then crashing the rook into f6 was bold, confident play. Even when the king escaped, you kept finding checks and forced the trade into a simpler position, and you had just enough clock left to close it out. That killer instinct is a real asset.
Your win with black against Anselm Wagner in the English Opening was the opposite kind of game and just as impressive. You did not rush. You built pressure on the queenside, grabbed the loose central pawn, and finished with the rook landing on the second rank in a completely winning position. That is patient, grown up chess, and it shows you can win both with fire and with technique.
The clock is your biggest opponent
Look at the pattern across your recent games. Against meeshomagnus you lost on time with about a second on your clock while your opponent still had over ten seconds. In your first game against Anselm Wagner you flagged with under a second. In the second one you flagged again, this time with a fraction of a second left. Your win against rebiscoooooo also came on time, from a scramble.
This is not a knowledge problem. Your moves in those flag games were mostly reasonable. It is a time trouble problem, and it is costing you full points in games you are not losing on the board. In a one minute game, the clock is a piece. Treat it like one.
- Starting around move twenty, decide your plan in one quick look and stop re checking the position. Long think, then commit.
- When a capture or recapture is forced or close to forced, play the pre-move and bank those seconds. You left yourself with a second or two in endgames where almost every move was a recapture.
- Set yourself a hard floor. If you drop below five seconds before move thirty, you have already lost the time battle, even if the position is fine.
- Play a handful of games with the goal of never dipping under ten seconds, ignoring the result for a session. That habit transfers fast.
Attacking decisions and material
Your sacrifice on f6 against rebiscoooooo was exciting but speculative. The king walked away to e6 and your attack depended entirely on checks continuing. It worked, but against a slightly calmer defender you would have been a full rook down for nothing. Before you sacrifice, ask one question. After they take, do I have a forced check or a forced recapture? If the answer is maybe, keep the material and improve a piece instead. Here is the opening of that game if you want to see the setup again.
In your loss with white against BeneCyrill you recaptured on f3 with the g pawn, which left you with doubled pawns and a permanently weak pawn structure on the kingside. That is a positional tax you pay for the rest of the game. When you have a choice between recapturing with a pawn and keeping your pawns healthy, take a second to consider the pawn structure, not just the move order.
Opening focus
Your b3 and Bb2 setup is clearly your home base, and you should keep it. You know it, you play it fast, and the resulting middle games suit your style. That said, your results in a few of your regular systems are noticeably weaker than your overall record, particularly the sharp attacking lines you fall into with an early f pawn push. Those lines give you chances but also leave holes around your king, and in bullet the holes get punished before your attack lands.
Pick two variations and learn the first eight moves properly, including what the opponent is trying to do. One solid option and one sharp option is plenty. Depth in a small repertoire beats a shallow knowledge of many lines.
Three games to review
- Your attacking win against rebiscoooooo for the king hunt and the clock scramble.
- The loss to MeeshoMagnus to see exactly where the seconds disappeared in the queen endgame.
- Your patient win with black as the model for how you should handle heavier positions.
The plan for the next week
Your longer term trend is still climbing, so the direction is right. The job now is turning board wins into clock wins. Spend one session focusing purely on banking time, keep your attacking flair, and add one small check before every sacrifice. Do those two things and the results in these close scrambles will flip back your way.