Artiom Stribuk IM

Your recent blitz performance at a glance

Overall, your longer-term results show a positive trajectory, with gains across several months. In the latest one-month window you dipped a little, but the six- and twelve-month views indicate you are capable of sustained improvement. This combination suggests you have a solid foundation, but you can tighten how you convert chances in sharp positions and finish games more cleanly under time pressure. For a quick look at your profile, you can view artiomstribuk.

• Active, dynamic play in complex middlegames. You seek initiative and complications, which can unbalance opponents in blitz where quick decisions matter.
• Resilience in lengthy games; you fight to the end and create practical chances even when material is imbalanced.
• Solid openings on balance across a mixed repertoire, showing flexibility and willingness to adapt to your opponent’s choices.
• Reasonable endgame awareness in several games, keeping lines open for counterplay and chances to trap or pressure the opponent.

• Time management under pressure: a few late-move mistakes or rushed decisions can flip the result in blitz. Practice allocating a steady amount of time per phase (opening, middlegame, endgame) and use a simple clock plan to avoid flagging.
• Calculation depth in sharp positions: when the position becomes tactical, aim to pause and verify a couple of forced lines before making a decisive commitment.
• Opening consistency: while a diverse repertoire is good, locking in 2–3 reliable lines per color can reduce uncertainty and improve decision speed in the first 15 moves.
• Endgame technique: work on converting advantages in rook endings and king activity in pawn endgames, which are common in blitz.

• Daily tactical drills: 15–20 minutes focusing on common motifs (forks, pins, discovered checks, back-rank themes) to sharpen quick calculation.
• Two short blitz sessions (5–8 minutes per side) each day, concentrating on your chosen opening lines to build a compact, reliable repertoire.
• Endgame practice: dedicate 15 minutes a day to rook endings and king-pawn endings to improve conversion chances in blitz.
• Review one recent loss or unclear decision per week, write down the key turning point and a clear alternative line to reinforce better choices under time pressure.

Your openings show breadth, with stronger results in some lines and room to improve in others. Notably, you perform reasonably well when exploring less common lines, but you can benefit from solidifying a small, dependable core for both colors to reduce decision fatigue in blitz. Consider picking 2–3 trusted routes for white and 2–3 for black to rely on solid plans rather than tight, last-moment improvisations.

• Choose 2 main openings for white and 2 for black to specialize your early game plan.
• In the next two weeks, run a focused drill routine: 15–20 minutes of tactics, 20–30 minutes of opening practice, and 15–20 minutes of endgame study each day.
• Track time usage in each blitz game and aim to keep a consistent pace, avoiding long thinking bursts in the late middle game unless the position clearly supports it.
• After every 10 blitz games, do a quick post-mortem: list one decision you would repeat, and one where you would change the approach next time.