Leandro Formes De Arruda NM

Overall Performance and Rating Progress

Leandro, your recent performance shows a near balanced strength adjusted win rate just below 50%, which indicates you're competing well against players of similar skill levels. Your rating changes over various periods show the following trends:

• Stable rating over the last 1 month with no change.
• Excellent improvement over 3 months, gaining about 100 points.
• Modest gain over 6 months.
• Positive upward trend slopes in all measured durations suggest steady and consistent progress in your game.

Keep maintaining this momentum as consistency is key to long-term improvement.

Strengths in Your Recent Wins

You demonstrated excellent tactical awareness and attacking play in your wins. A few highlights include:

• Strong control of the center and dynamic piece play in openings such as the Scandinavian Defense and King's Gambit.
• Effective use of pins, forks, and piece coordination to pressure opponents.
• Successful execution of aggressive pawn pushes and active rook and queen placements leading to decisive attacks or opponent time forfeits.
• Good exploitation of opponent's inaccuracies leading to quick wins or their resignation.

Your timing in attacks and ability to capitalize on opponent mistakes is a definite asset.

Areas for Improvement

Analysis of your recent losses suggests some points of focus that could raise your level further:

• Opening Preparation: Some losses occurred from positions arising in well-studied openings like the Budapest Gambit and French Defense. Deepening your knowledge of typical plans and common tactical themes in these openings could avoid early disadvantages.
• Endgame Technique: A few games showed a potential to convert better positions more efficiently and avoid minor mistakes in complex endgames.
• Defense Under Pressure: Improving resilience when under attack by carefully calculating defensive resources might reduce losses by resignation or checkmate.
• Time Management: While you did win several games by exploiting opponent time pressure, ensuring balanced time use yourself will help you avoid losing on time or making rushed errors.

Consider reviewing annotated games in your weaker openings and practicing common endgame scenarios to polish these aspects.

Next Steps

• Review your recent critical losses, especially opening phase errors, with an engine and chess coach to identify specific tactical or strategic improvements.
• Practice tactical puzzles daily to sharpen calculation skills and pattern recognition especially in middle games.
• Study endgame fundamentals such as king and pawn endings, rook endings, and common mating patterns.
• Try to maintain steady time usage in blitz games to reduce time pressure risks.
• Play training games focusing on openings where you have lower success rates to build confidence and familiarity.

With your evident dedication and recent positive trend, these focused improvements will help you climb higher in ratings and playing strength.