Coach Chesswick
Hello Tomas252!
Great job keeping your rating in the high-2200s and scoring several convincing wins lately. I studied your most recent games and put together tailored advice to help you push toward the next milestone.
What you already do well
- Opening variety & understanding. You switch smoothly between the Réti / KIA structures as White and flexible setups such as the Grünfeld and Sicilian as Black. The first 10 moves are rarely the reason you get into trouble.
- Pressure on the clock. In three of your last five wins you forced the opponent to burn time in difficult positions before finally collapsing or flagging.
- End-game technique. The conversion vs. sixtyfor64 (…g1=Q#) shows accurate piece coordination and king activity with only seconds left.
Key patterns to fix
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Time-management swings.
• You lost on time in four of the last seven defeats, sometimes from equal or even better positions.
• Most of the flagged games show a sharp drop around move 20. Aim to reach that point with >40% of your original time.
• Practical tip: verbalise “simplify or blitz” whenever your clock dips under 30 sec + increment. -
Over-pressing in balanced positions.
• Example: against KingRossi (03 Jun) you pushed 34.Bb2+ and 36.Bc1+ looking for more but allowed …Ke5 and later …Rxh2, flipping the end-game.
• Convert small edges by trading one set of pieces and fixing pawn structures rather than forcing tactics. -
Tactical alertness vs. counter-shots.
• In the 04 Jun loss to ceslan you were mated after 20.e3 fork Ne2#. Your queen ventured to h6 twice without calculating Black’s …Nd4/…Ne2 jump.
• Regularly pause before committing an attacking move: “What is my opponent’s next forcing idea?”
Illustrative moment
The diagram below shows the critical fork you missed. Spend 30 seconds here and ask yourself how you would have prevented it in a tournament game.
Targeted action plan
Short-term (next 2 weeks)
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Medium-term (1 – 2 months)
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Progress trackers
Use these dashboards each Sunday to verify that the work is paying off:
- Blitz hourly performance:
- Streaks by calendar day:
- Your peak so far: 2500 (2025-03-11) (new record incoming!)
Final encouragement
Your games show creativity and fighting spirit; ironing out the clock-handling and tightening tactical calculation will easily add 50-100 Elo. Good luck, and feel free to send me any tough positions that come up in your next sessions!