Jinan Jomon FM

Overview of Recent Games

Your recent blitz games show a solid level of tactical awareness and good opening preparation, particularly with the French Defense and Sicilian structures. You secured a win with an aggressive kingside attack in the French Defense game, demonstrating strong attacking skills and good timing.

However, some losses highlight challenges in managing complex middlegame positions and endgames, especially against well-prepared opponents utilizing dynamic openings like the Hyperaccelerated Dragon and the Bishop's Opening Berlin Spielmann Attack.

What You're Doing Well

• Strong Opening Knowledge: Your performance in openings like the Four Knights Game and French Defense is above 50% win rate, showing solid grasp of main ideas.
• Attacking Play: Your recent win featured good use of piece coordination and kingside pressure, particularly using rook lifts and opening lines.
• Endgame Awareness: In several games, you demonstrated tactical resourcefulness and created threats even in challenging endgame scenarios.
• Consistency Over Time: Your six-month rating gain and positive 12-month rating trend slope indicate ongoing improvement and ability to learn from experience.

Areas for Improvement

• Middlegame Planning: Some losses suggest difficulty handling pressure when your opponent gains initiative in complicated positions. Focus on deeper positional understanding, planning, and anticipating your opponent’s counterplay.
• Opening Variation Flexibility: Although you have good success in certain main lines, your narrowed opening range like heavier repetition of some defenses may make you predictable. Experiment with additional variations to increase your versatility.
• Time Management in Blitz: Several games showed time pressure effects when critical decisions were required. Practice quicker board evaluation and identifying candidate moves faster under time constraints.
• Capitalizing on Advantage: Work on converting winning positions decisively. Tactical awareness is strong but sometimes is not enough without accurate technique in transitioning to winning endgames or finishing attacks.

Next Steps to Boost Your Performance

• Analyze recent losses deeply—identify key moments where alternative plans or moves could have turned the tide.
• Study model games in your favored openings and related sidelines to expand your repertoire and understanding.
• Focus on training tactics with an emphasis on pattern recognition under time pressure to enhance speed and accuracy.
• Practice endgame fundamentals to improve confidence and precision in converting small advantages.
• Consider maintaining a balanced approach to opening choices to keep opponents guessing and avoid preparation fatigue.

Summary of Recent Trends

Your overall rating trend is positive over the last 6 and 12 months, reflecting consistent growth despite a slight dip in the past 1-3 months. This short-term fluctuation may relate to experimentation in style or tougher opposition. Staying focused on continued learning and addressing the middlegame and time management will support returning to an upward rating trajectory.