Coach Chesswick
Feedback for Jérémy Stawowczyk
Jérémy, reviewing your recent games, I see some clear strengths as well as areas with potential for improvement. Let's go over some key points:
Strengths
- Opening Play: You often start with solid and classical openings such as the Four Knights Game and King's Pawn openings. This provides a good foundation and balance between development and control. Maintaining this consistency is excellent.
- Attacking Skills: You have demonstrated sharp attacking combinations and tactical awareness, often leading to checkmate or decisive material gain. The game against Mjpl8 where you delivered a checkmate on move 28 shows you know how to capitalize on weaknesses effectively.
- Patience in Endgames: Your recent win with a precise king and queen maneuver leading to checkmate indicates good endgame technique and focus.
Areas for Improvement
- Defense Under Pressure: Some losses indicate vulnerability when opponents launch aggressive attacks early on. For example, in the loss against Manjiirooo, a quick mating net was executed against you after you fell behind in development. Focus on improving your awareness and defense in sharp positions.
- Opening Variations: While your choice of openings is solid, occasionally experimenting with mainline moves instead of quieter sidelines (like 2.d3) may improve your position and reduce early tactical risks. Studying common traps and typical ideas in your chosen openings can help you avoid pitfalls.
- Piece Coordination: There are moments where your pieces are less coordinated, particularly in complex middlegames. It's critical to connect your pieces actively, control open files, and avoid passivity.
- Time Management: In rapid or blitz games, you have spent a good amount of time early, but sometimes made hurried decisions in complex situations. Try practicing positions slightly slower to build intuition and avoid blunders when the clock is ticking.
Recommendations
- Review your losses carefully and identify if certain positions or patterns consistently cause problems.
- Practice tactics puzzles daily to sharpen calculation and spotting defensive resources.
- Deepen your understanding of your favorite openings with theory and typical plans using opening theory.
- Analyze grandmaster games in the openings you play, focusing on middlegame plans and transitions to endgames.
- Try to maintain a balance between speed and accuracy; if time permits, think through critical moves carefully.
Inspiration from Your Recent Win
Your last victory showed excellent handling of a complex position and precise tactical execution culminating in checkmate. Keep reinforcing that strong sense of timing and visualization — it’s a hallmark of improving players!
Keep up the great work, stay consistent with training, and enjoy your chess journey!