Coach Chesswick
Hi Vinay, here is your personalized post-match feedback!
Quick performance snapshot
• Current Rapid peak: 2519 (2019-02-27)
• Win-rate patterns:
What you are doing well
- Early initiative & creativity. The 7.g4!? thrust in your victory against enguyen2002 shows confident willingness to unbalance positions and seize the attack.
- Tactical alertness. Ideas such as 27.Nxe6+! in the same game illustrate sharp calculation under pressure.
- Practical end-game skills. Several wins (e.g. vs Izoria123) were converted smoothly once you reached a technically winning rook-or-pawn ending.
Biggest improvement opportunities
- Clock management. Four of your last six losses were on time. Good moves played too late score zero.
- Pawn over-extensions. Repeated early pushes (g-/h-pawns in the KIA loss vs TigranLPetrosyan) left weak squares behind. Balance initiative with long-term structure.
- Consolidating after a gain. Against dretch you won material but allowed counter-play because pieces lacked coordination in the conversion phase.
4-week action plan
- Time-control discipline. Adopt a simple rule: by move 15 you should still have >60 % of your clock, by move 30 >25 %. Practise with a visible move-counter or set incremental alarms.
- Thematic opening review. Refresh critical lines in Semi-Slav (D45) and Grunfeld (D80). Spend two sessions per week generating a mini-tree of “must-know” continuations; test it with engine sparrings.
- End-game repetition. 10-minute daily drill on rook-and-pawn vs rook, and tricky bishop-vs-knight endings. The aim is to shorten conversion time and free up clock for earlier phases.
- Tactics under time pressure. Do three sets of 10 Puzzle-Rush survival problems, but enforce a strict 30-second limit per puzzle to simulate game tension.
- Post-game blunder check routine. Immediately after each session, run a 5-minute “why did I lose/win time?” review: list move numbers where you dropped >90 s or missed a candidate. This builds awareness faster than generic analysis.
Illustrative moment
The diagram below comes from your loss to dretch. Black is a pawn up but pieces are loose and the clock is low—exactly where a 30-second “blunder scan” before every move would have paid off.
Technical theme to study this week
The position above highlights loose pieces and overloaded defenders. Reviewing motifs like the zwischenzug and piece domination will sharpen your sense for when to consolidate versus continue hunting pawns.
Keep the momentum!
Your attacking flair is a huge asset—pair it with firmer time-handling and a touch more restraint in pawn storms, and you will be well on your way to breaking the next rating barrier.
Good luck, and feel free to share games or questions any time.