Elham Amar GM

Feedback focus for Elham Amar

You play blitz with a clear willingness to complicate and keep pressure on the opponent. Your games show you can generate practical chances in dynamic positions, and you’re capable of turning tactical scenes into winning threats. To elevate your results consistently, focus on tightening a few core areas: solid opening transitions, sharper endgame technique, and disciplined time management under pressure.

What you do well

• Willingness to fight for initiative and create activity, even from quieter openings.
• Ability to convert multi-piece attacks into concrete threats when the position opens up.
• Comfort with exchanging into favorable structures or forcing lines when your opponent overextends.
• Resilience in blitz time controls—staying focused and keeping the board sharp enough to keep opponents under heat.

Key improvement areas

• Endgame conversion and technique. Practice king-and-pawn endgames and rook endings to improve consistency when the board simplifies.
• Time management and decision discipline. Develop a simple thinking routine to avoid spending too long on non-critical moves and to keep enough clock for complex middlegames.
• Threat recognition and defensive planning. Train to spot and parry concrete threats earlier, especially when you’re chasing initiative and your opponent has counterplay lurking in the wings.
• Opening-to-middlegame planning. After the first 8–12 moves, have a clear plan based on the typical pawn structures and piece placements of your chosen openings.

Opening choices and study plan

Your openings data suggests you have strengths in several solid lines and some aggressive setups. In particular, there are promising results with Bishop's Opening: Horwitz Gambit. Consider deepening study in this line to convert its practical chances more reliably. See a quick study reference here: Bishop's Opening: Horwitz Gambit.

• Deepen 1–2 lines in your preferred openings so you can reach a comfortable middlegame plan quickly.
• For solid structures, keep refining the standard pawn breaks and typical piece placements to avoid passive middlegames.
• When facing common responses, memorize a few forcing replies that suit your style (e.g., typical piece maneuvers in the Horwitz Gambit and familiar Caro-Kann structures).
• Review recent opponents and their typical responses to your chosen openings to improve your on-board decision-making in blitz. You can use a quick review with Tornikidze or Elham Amar to spark relevant practice notes.

Four-week practical training plan

• Week 1 – Time management and decision discipline: practice with a fixed thinking window per move (e.g., quick checks within 15–20 seconds, then decide). Focus on avoiding long, uncertain lines in early middlegame.
• Week 2 – Opening refinement: pick 1–2 openings to study deeply (including the Horwitz Gambit line you favor). Learn the main move orders, typical plans, and common tactical motifs in those lines.
• Week 3 – Endgame fundamentals: study king-and-pawn endings, rook endings, and simple minor-piece endings. Solve a few endgame puzzles each day and review any blitz endgames that slipped away.
• Week 4 – Tactics and practical decision-making: daily puzzles focused on pattern recognition (forks, pins, skewers, and discovered attacks) plus quick post-game reviews to identify where a different move choice could have saved a pawn or improved balance.

Next steps and support

If you’d like, I can tailor a 6–8 week plan around the exact openings you play and your typical blitz time controls. I can also prepare a short 3-mly move template you can apply in the first 12 moves of your games to secure a clear middlegame plan. For targeted practice, we can review recent games with opponents like Tornikidze to pinpoint recurring patterns and improve your responses in similar setups.

Would you like me to generate a concrete 6-week plan focused on your current openings and a quick, move-by-move review of your next few blitz games? If yes, I can include a few practice puzzles and a one-page opening quick-reference for you.