Kamryn

Overall Progress

Kamryn, your consistent upward trend in rating over the past 6 months is impressive. Gaining around 44 rating points and maintaining positive trend slopes across 1, 3, 6, and 12 months shows steady improvement in your play and results. Keep up this momentum!

Recent Notable Strengths

• You are scoring very well with the French Defense: Advance Variation, holding an 87.5% win rate. This suggests this opening suits your style and understanding well.
• Excellent performance with the Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation with a 100% win rate in your games. This is a strong area to build upon.
• Good results with the London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation, winning nearly 59% of your games.
• High confidence in tactics and positional play, evident in your strong endgame finishes from your wins.

Areas for Improvement

• Consider reviewing your games with the French Defense (excluding the Advance Variation), where you have not yet secured a win. Identifying pitfalls and tricky lines here could boost your defense repertoire.
• The Scandinavian Defense appears challenging for you. Spending some time understanding common traps and plans in this opening may help you avoid losses here.
• Increasing your draw conversion into wins can improve your overall results. Many of your openings have draws; focusing on converting advantages in the middlegame or endgame might be key.
• Occasionally, being mindful of time usage might be beneficial. In your recent games, some moves were made very quickly while others took a relatively long time. Developing more consistent time management could reduce errors.

Suggested Focus for Next Steps

• Deepen your opening preparation especially for variations that currently have a lower win rate or zero wins. Studying model games in those lines will help.
• Work on middle game strategies that arise from your favored openings, especially enhancing tactical awareness and calculation skills.
• Practice converting endgame advantages; your past games show you can create winning endgames, so fine-tuning precision will solidify those wins.
• Keep reviewing your completed games actively. Identify key turning points where you gained or lost momentum to better understand your thought process.