Coach Chesswick
Hi Zhamsaran, here is your personalized performance review
Your current trajectory
• Consistent blitz specialist with a peak of 3213 (2025-05-18).
• Activity graph (
• Your win-rate jumps on Tuesdays (see ), matching your regular Titled Tuesday appearances.
What you already do well
- Proactive pawn storms – your Najdorf win against Jiner Zhu displayed excellent feel for space grabbing with h3–g4–h4–g5. See the critical sequence: .
- Dynamic piece play – in the King’s Indian versus Pouya21 you found the thematic break …c5 and followed with an exchange sacrifice on a3, seizing the initiative.
- Pressure openings as Black – your Advance-Caro lines (…h6 …c5 …Nc6) often leave White reeling for development.
Recurring issues to address
- Time-management – four of the last six losses were flagged or resigned with <5 seconds. You often invest ~45 s on move 10-18, then scramble later. Try a “soft cap” of 10 s / move until move 20.
- Loose king safety in the English/1…g6 setups – vs. Chopper1905 you allowed Nb5–Nd6 and the queen infiltration Qa4–Qf4–e3. Review sidelines where White sacrifices a pawn for activity and keep the dark-square bishop ready.
- End-game technique – the 98-move loss to AquariusMan2006 featured a won rook-and-knight ending that slipped away. Work on rook + passed-pawn vs bishop endings and practical opposition drills.
- Tactical blind spots – several defeats sprang from missed intermediate moves (e.g. 40…Rb4? in the loss to Armen_ChessMate). Add 15-minute daily Zwischenzug puzzles to your routine.
Action plan for the coming week
- Opening refresh
• Caro-Kann: prepare 6…c5 against both 6.Be2 and 6.Nc3.
• King’s Indian: rehearse the Makogonov line (5.h3) – your opponents are steering there.
• Anti-English: add a solid 1…e5 system to diversify when 1.c4 avoids your Pirc setups. - Clock discipline drill
• Play three 3 + 2 games/day with the goal never below 50 % of initial time before move 20.
• Review each game only for time usage, not moves. - End-game mini-course
• 20 positions from Dvoretsky’s “rook-and-minor-piece vs pawns” chapter.
• Finish with five 5 + 5 sparring games that start from an equal rook ending. - Tactics maintenance
• 25 mixed-difficulty puzzles, tagging every missed idea (fork, pin, deflection, back-rank mate).
• Weekly puzzle rush target: ≥48.
Mindset reminder
“Fast players aren’t born – they rehearse evaluation shortcuts until they feel like intuition.”Take pride in your attacking flair, but couple it with crisp time usage and end-game calm. Small tweaks will push you to the next bracket.