What your recent rapid games show
You have a very strong run: 15 wins, 1 loss, and 1 draw across your latest rapid games. Your rating trend over the past several months is positive, with noticeable gains, which indicates you are building experience and confidence under time pressure.
Your strengths
- Sharp finishing ability: you frequently convert favorable middlegames into wins, and you demonstrated decisive tactics that led to quick endings.
- Flexible and well-prepared openings: your openings performance data shows you play a wide range of lines effectively, giving you practical comfort in different types of positions.
- Consistent improvement over time: the rating trend over three to six months shows solid growth, suggesting your study and practice are paying off in rapid play.
Areas to improve
- Time management under rapid conditions: keep a steady pace so you don’t reach critical moments with too little time left. Use quick, solid moves in quieter moments and reserve deep calculations for key decisions.
- Balance aggression with prophylaxis: your tactical play is strong, but pair it with careful consideration of your opponent’s threats to avoid giving counterplay opportunities.
- Endgame consolidation: when you gain material or a clear edge, focus on simplifying to a favorable endgame and avoid risky complications that could invite a comeback.
Action plan for the coming weeks
- Solidify a compact opening repertoire: lean on your top-performing lines such as Barnes Defense and French Defense variations, and write down two or three clear middlegame plans for each.
- Daily quick tactics practice: solve 15–20 puzzles to sharpen calculation under pressure.
- Practice with tempo-friendly drills: play practice games with longer increments to build patterns, then apply those insights in rapid games.
- Post-game review habit: after each game, identify the critical moment and consider a better plan you could have followed in that moment.
Notes on openings performance
Your openings data shows very strong results across multiple lines, indicating a flexible and well-prepared repertoire. Continue leveraging your strongest lines while expanding a couple of reliable alternatives to stay unpredictable. If you want to focus, consider building a two-line core repertoire for each color that you can rely on under time pressure. Examples of strong lines in your data include Barnes Defense and Scandinavian Defense.
What I can tailor next
If you’d like, I can prepare a concise, annotated plan for the next two weeks, focusing on two key areas: sharpening calculation in typical middlegames and reinforcing your solid opening plans for rapid play.