Coach Chesswick
Hi Laszlo! 🎯 Personalised Training Notes
Your recent performance at a glance
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• Consistency trend:
What you already do well
- Active, initiative-oriented openings (e.g. 2.e5 against the French placed Black on the back foot in your win vs masud_h).
- Good feel for converting an extra pawn when pieces are simplified. The sequence 29-34 in the same game shows clean centralisation and king activity.
- Practical use of the clock: your blitz wins rarely go below 10 seconds – you keep just enough buffer to finish tactical lines.
Targeted improvement areas
- Kingside pawn pushes
In the loss against srboljubmilovanovic you advanced g- & h-pawns before finishing development, weakening the dark squares around your king.
Critical fragment: .
Tip: before moving a wing pawn ask “Can my opponent open files toward my king in three moves?” – if yes, postpone the push. - Early queen raids
Several defeats start with your queen going on adventures (e.g. 24.Qg6? vs goodluckmate17). Train the habit of counting defenders vs attackers on the square you are entering. - Time-pressure endgames
Two losses came simply from running out of time in technically drawable positions. Practise 1-minute rook-and-pawn endings vs engine to automate basic techniques (Lucena, Philidor). - Opening focus
Your repertoire is wide (Reti, KIA, Sicilian, French sidelines). Narrow it temporarily: pick one mainline with clear plans and analyse 10 master games. Depth beats breadth for rating climbs.
Four-week action plan
- Puzzle Rush 20-minute session, 3×/week – aim for 40+ score to sharpen concrete calculation.
- Replay the last 15 blitz games; for each blunder identify the precursor (often a quiet positional inaccuracy).
- Create a mini “tabiya” file of your favourite setups; annotate with typical ideas (pawn breaks, minority attack, outpost placement).
- End of week #4: play a slow (15 | 10) match and self-annotate – use it to check whether pawn-storm discipline and clock handling improved.
Quick reference stats
• Peak Blitz rating: 2227 (2019-08-15)
• Current streak: +1 (last game vs masud_h)
• Most common tactical motif exploited: forks – keep searching for knight jumps! fork
Keep training systematically and your next rating milestone will follow soon. Have fun over the board!