I’m around 850 rapid and I’m trying to improve seriously.
Chess.com profile: https://www.chess.com/member/normmacdonaldt1ao/games
Could someone look through some of my recent games and tell me:
What are my biggest weaknesses?
What am I actually good at?
What mistakes do I keep repeating?
What should I focus on studying/practicing to reach 1000+?
I’m especially interested in patterns across multiple games rather than just analyzing one blunder.
(This is a second acc that's why its so new the old one was also 800 for a much longer time).
[Event "rated rapid game"] [Site "https://lichess.org/MgbrifJV"] [Date "2026.08.21"] [White "pooyanmosaybi"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "600+5"] [Annotator "lichess.org"] 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 exd4 4 Nxd4 Nxd4 5 Qxd4 Nf6 ...
It probably seemed like a good idea, to play 4...Nxd4, drawing pooyanmosaybi's queen out into the middle of the board, but:
"... if a queen is actually stable in the middle of the board, this can often be the best place for it ..." - Discovering Chess Openings (2006) by GM John Emms
4...Nf6 or 4...Bc5 would have been standard choices.
You played your first 5 moves at an average rate of ~2 seconds per move. In a 10+5 game, you could average 13 seconds per move and have enough time for 75 moves.
@urielbenporatdanon said [^](/forum/redirect/post/hSMyOMKB)
> I’m trying to improve seriously
Answer one important question. What is the goal in the game? What are you trying to do in every game?
I believe that that topic is addressed on page 47 of Play Chess Like a Boss (2019) by GM Patrick Wolff.
https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Play-Chess-Like-Boss/dp/1465483810?asin=1465483810&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
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