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Overview of your recent rapid games

You’re showing strong performance across several aggressive and dynamic openings. Your opening choices that lead to active piece play and sharp middlegames are often rewarded, and your overall momentum over recent months is positive. There are a few patterns to tighten up: some results in the Ruy Lopez family and a couple of tactical middlegames where the balance shifted against you. The data also suggests your strongest results come from a few trusted lines, while a couple of other variations have been less consistent. This is a great base to build from with targeted practice.

What you are doing well

• You handle sharp, tactical middlegames well when your pieces are active and your king is safe enough to press for initiative.
• Your performance with several aggressive openings (such as London System variants and Amazon Attack families) shows you can convert pressure into wins.
• Your long-term rating trend indicates steady improvement, suggesting good learning and adaptation over time.

Areas to improve

• Endgame clarity: in longer forcing lines, some games drift into complex exchanges where it’s easy to miscount material or miss a simpler simplification.
• Defensive resource planning: in a few middlegame shocks, there were moments where counterplay against your initiative wasn’t fully anticipated. Building a habit of prophylaxis and concrete defensive checks will help you hold balance earlier.
• Opening consistency: you have several strong lines, but a couple of openings show mixed results. Focusing on 2–3 reliable branches and knowing the typical middle-game ideas for each will reduce uncertainty and time pressure.
• Time management: with 10-minute rapid games, allocating mental energy to critical moments (early middlegame plans, key pawn breaks, and endgames) will help avoid rushed decisions later in the game.

Opening performance snapshot

• London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation — strong results across several games. Focus on solid pawn structure and typical central breaks.
• Amazon Attack: Siberian Attack — also showing excellent results; emphasize quick development and control of the center with timely pawn advances.
• Sicilian Defense: Najdorf and related lines — consistent wins in a couple of attempts; study common anti-Najdorf ideas and your preferred responded plans.
• Sicilian Defense and Benoni lines — positive results, suggesting these are good fits for your play style when you’re comfortable with the structure.
• Ruy Lopez family (including Closed variations) and Chekhover variations — mixed results; these may require deeper study of typical middlegame plans and defensive resources.

Notes: the opening results include small sample sizes for some lines. Use them as a guide to prioritize study rather than definitive proof. To streamline your study, consider picking 2–3 openings you enjoy most and building a compact plan for each (typical plans, key pawn structures, common tricks or traps to avoid).

Suggested internal references to review: London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation, Amazon Attack: Siberian Attack, Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation. For quick study, you can explore these ideas in a focused practice set or with a short refresher game plan: London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation, Amazon Attack: Siberian Attack.

Momentum and rating trends

Your overall progress over different windows shows positive momentum. Short-term improvement has been steady, and longer-term views indicate sustained gains. Use this momentum by reinforcing solid habits (pre-move planning for your critical moments, consistent endgame technique) and carrying forward the lines that suit your style.

Practice plan and next steps

• Choose 2 openings you enjoy most (for example, London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation and Amazon Attack: Siberian Attack) and build a concise, 6–8 move plan for the first 15 moves of the game. Practice these plans in 6–8 focused training games.
• Study 2 endgame themes per week (rook endings with active king, and basic opposite-colored bishop endings) and complete a short set of endgame drills.
• In the middlegame, add a simple tactical-check routine: at each critical junction, ask yourself “what is my opponent threatening, and what is my answer if they push?” before committing to a plan.
• Track time usage: aim to spend roughly 15–25% of the early moves on plan formation, 40–60% on middlegame execution, and the remainder on endgames or converting advantages.

Optional study aids

To help you study efficiently, you can create compact study sets for your top openings and a few common middlegame structures you encounter. If you’d like, I can generate practice Pgn packs focusing on these topics, such as a set illustrating common London System structures or Amazon Attack patterns. For example, a sample placeholder you can customize later:
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Ready to tailor a plan?

If you want, I can draft a 2-week, 4-game-per-week micro-plan tailored to your current openings and target weaknesses, plus a short set of annotated practice games you can review on mobile. Just say the word and tell me which openings you’d like to focus on first.