Coaching report for elialexander. 7,564 games from 3 Sep 2016 to 31 Oct 2026, 136 analyzed by Stockfish.

You know the tactics. In games, you stop looking for them.

Your best puzzle rating is 2062 and your bullet rating is 1501. In your last 136 games, a quarter of your mistakes and blunders were one piece left hanging, and many others were a free piece you walked past. That isn't missing knowledge. It's a missing habit, and it's the cheapest rating you will ever gain. This first edition covers the last three months, and a fuller one follows when Stockfish finishes your older games.

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From a game on 31 October. Your knight on f3 could take the queen on h4 for free. You played 7. ♕e2 with 54 seconds on your clock.

What to work on

In order of how many points each one costs you.

On the boards, the red arrow is the move you played and the green arrow is the best move.

1

Moving a piece onto a square that's already covered

Your most common error is one move that leaves a piece free to take, very often your queen, on a line a rook or bishop already controls from across the board. The attacker is far away, so nothing near your piece warns you.

87 of your 346 mistakes and blunders in the last three months (25%) left a piece hanging. You spent about 2 seconds on those moves, longer than your usual 1.3, so speed alone doesn't explain it. You're looking at your own idea, not at what the opponent's long-range pieces reach.

What to do: Before you let go of a piece, ask one question: what can capture on this square? Check the open files and diagonals first. It feels slow at first, so build it in slower games, then bring it back to bullet.

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31. ♕f7??

Best was ♗xe6+

Win chance 98% to 4% You spent 1.2s, 10s left Bullet against Virus3232, 29 Sep 2026

Your queen was facing the rook on f1 along the f-file. Moving up the file to f7 didn't get it out of the rook's line. You could have taken that rook, and ♗xe6+ first was stronger still.

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19... g6??

Best was ♕xe1+

Win chance 93% to 4% You spent 14s, 22s left Bullet against Gabs1, 24 Oct 2026

You spent 14 seconds here, a long think in a one-minute game, and your queen on h4 was still attacked by the rook on f4. A long think doesn't help if it skips the first question.

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62. ♕f8??

Best was ♕e6+

Win chance 94% to 3% You spent 0.4s, 6.0s left Bullet against btangeysh, 28 Oct 2026

The bishop on c5 covers f8 from the far side of the board. A won endgame turned into a lost one in one move.

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Walking past free material

Your opponents hang pieces almost as often as you do. In these games you often don't notice, because your attention is on your own plan. The capture is usually simple, the kind you would spot at once in a puzzle.

You missed a winning tactic 108 times in 136 games, nearly once a game, and 29 of those were a straightforward free piece.

What to do: Start every move the way you start a puzzle: captures first, then checks, then your plan. After each opponent move, ask what it just left undefended.

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9. h3??

Best was ♕xg4

Win chance 92% to 28% You spent 1.9s, 55s left Bullet against user_384362891, 29 Sep 2026

Your queen on d1 already reached g4. You attacked the knight with h3 when you could simply have taken it.

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23. ♗g8??

Best was ♘xe4

Win chance 91% to 27% You spent 0.7s, 36s left Bullet against TUSHAR277311, 24 Oct 2026

The rook on e4 was undefended and attacked by your knight. Taking it wins the game on the spot.

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Falling apart below 30 seconds

With plenty of clock left, your play holds up. Once you drop under about 30 seconds in a position that's still undecided, errors more than double. On average you reach that point around move 23, right as the middlegame gets complicated.

In undecided bullet positions you make 7 mistakes or blunders per 100 moves with over 30 seconds left, 19 with 15 to 30 seconds, and 26 with under 6 seconds. You reached a winning position in 84 games and won only 54. Of the 30 that got away, 13 were lost on time.

What to do: Set a target of 40 seconds left at move 20, which means playing your first ten moves on autopilot. When you're ahead and short of time, stop looking for more: trade pieces and make safe moves.

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44... ♖e6??

Best was ♖e5+

Win chance 85% to 8% You spent 1.0s, 11s left Bullet against HuBaFisH, 24 Oct 2026

With 11 seconds left, ♖e5+ forks the king and the rook on a5, with the f6 pawn guarding your rook. You played ♖e6, onto a square the knight covers.

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50. ♔e3??

Best was ♔xf3

Win chance 75% to 8% You spent 0.1s, 6.3s left Bullet against BxN9, 28 Oct 2026

With 6 seconds left, the checking bishop on f3 was next to your king and undefended. Your king could just take it.

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4

Playing daily chess like bullet

Your daily rating is 1200, 300 points below your bullet rating, in the one format with almost unlimited thinking time. That's backwards. It suggests daily gets a quick look and a move instead of real thought.

Over the last 24 months you won 36, drew 2 and lost 67 daily games, and 13 of those losses were timeouts. At 3 days per move you're 20 wins to 52 losses, and at 7 days it's 16 to 15. Slower really is better for you, but this is on a small sample and your opponents averaged about 100 points higher.

What to do: Treat daily as training. Keep to three games at a time at 7 days a move. Before each move, name the opponent's threat and check every capture for both sides. If you can't spare a minute for that, leave the game until you can.

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26. ♕e3??

Best was ♘xf5

Win chance 83% to 10% Daily against Tolkienfan03, 2 Aug 2026

Your knight on h4 was attacked by the queen along the h-file, and you had days to see it. ♘xf5 saves the knight and hits the queen.

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What you do well

You keep fighting

You saved 46 of your last 136 games after falling below a 20% win chance. Most players at your level give those away.

Your clock is a real weapon

101 of your 156 bullet wins in the last 24 months came on time, against 41 time losses. You play fast and you pressure opponents well.

Your openings and endgames are sound

You make about 5 mistakes or blunders per 100 moves in both the opening and the endgame, against nearly 10 in the middlegame. Your problems are concentrated in one phase, which makes them easier to fix.

You beat the players you should

Against opponents 75 or more points below you, you've scored 86% over the last 24 months. You don't give points away by underestimating people.

Openings

Your openings aren't your biggest cost: you make about half as many errors there as in the middlegame, so don't spend much study time here. A few lines are worth a small fix. These numbers firm up once the older games are analyzed.

Keep your main lines against the Scandinavian and Caro-Kann

You've scored 63% against the Scandinavian and 70% against the Caro-Kann in the last 24 months. There's nothing to change.

Choose one plan against the French as White

You've scored just 22% across 20 recent games. Pick the Advance (3. e5) and learn one simple plan: keep the d4 and e5 chain and attack on the kingside.

Choose one setup against 1. d4 as Black

You've scored 33% over 30 recent games against Queen's Pawn openings. One reliable setup you can play without thinking also saves clock for the middlegame.

Your Alapin Sicilian is fine, the follow-up isn't

You leave the opening with a 59% win chance on average, yet you've scored 37% over 30 games. Keep playing it and review the middlegames instead.

Most played as White

Faced or playedGamesScoreLast 24 moAfter move 12
Sicilian Defense47045%44% (24)39%
Scandinavian Defense43252%63% (35)46%
Ponziani Opening41459%49% (35)56%
French Defense38546%22% (20)48%
Kings Pawn Opening30562%65% (10)67%
Philidor Defense25857%56% (9)48%
Caro Kann Defense17849%70% (22)39%
Italian Game14355%75%
Petrovs Defense11553%29% (7)2%
Pirc Defense11251%17%

Most played as Black

Faced or playedGamesScoreLast 24 moAfter move 12
Queens Pawn Opening34552%33% (30)37%
Kings Pawn Opening31959%83% (6)
Giuoco Piano Game26947%
Scotch Game22846%
Four Knights Game18249%
Ruy Lopez Opening17640%
Sicilian Defense17051%45% (68)37%
Bishops Opening16648%
Italian Game15944%
Queens Gambit12950%35%

Score counts a win as 1 and a draw as half. After move 12 is your average win chance leaving the opening, from analyzed games only.

Weekly practice plan

About 2 hours across the week, mostly the same habit in different forms. The aim is making that first question automatic.

MondayPick three games from this report. Set up the board before your mistake and find the best move yourself, then check it against the engine.20 min
TuesdayPlay two 10-minute games. Before each move, ask what can capture on the square you're moving to, and what your opponent's last move left undefended.20 min
WednesdayPuzzle Rush or similar timed puzzles. You're not here for new patterns, you're training speed of noticing. Say captures and checks to yourself before moving.15 min
ThursdayClock practice: play five bullet games aiming for 40 seconds left at move 20. Check your clock at move 20 in each game and note how close you came.20 min
FridayOpenings: learn one line against the French and one setup against 1. d4, only the first eight moves of each.15 min
SaturdayPlay 3-minute games with no premoves. Stop for the day after two losses in a row, because tired games only drill the bad habit.30 min
SundayMake your daily moves properly. For each one, write down the opponent's threat before you move.15 min

Your ten costliest moves

From the last 24 months, one per game, leaving out panic moves with under 10% of the clock left.

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31. ♕f7??

Best was ♗xe6+

Win chance 98% to 4% You spent 1.2s, 10s left Bullet against Virus3232, 29 Sep 2026

The queen moved along the rook's file and stayed in its line. You could have taken the rook instead.

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62. ♕f8??

Best was ♕e6+

Win chance 94% to 3% You spent 0.4s, 6.0s left Bullet against btangeysh, 28 Oct 2026

The bishop covers f8 from across the board.

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19... g6??

Best was ♕xe1+

Win chance 93% to 4% You spent 14s, 22s left Bullet against Gabs1, 24 Oct 2026

A 14-second think, with your queen on h4 attacked by the rook the whole time.

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33... ♘f6??

Best was ♔h8

Win chance 91% to 8% You spent 0.7s, 7.5s left Bullet against TipsyKnights03, 29 Sep 2026

The knight landed between your queen and the rook it was guarding, so the rook on f5 fell with check.

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36. ♖e5??

Best was ♘d7

Win chance 83% to 5% You spent 1.1s, 18s left Bullet against Tryhard444UK, 29 Oct 2026

Both black knights already covered e5.

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17. g4??

Best was ♖exd5

Win chance 92% to 15% You spent 1.6s, 39s left Bullet against DanielLeonidas16, 14 Sep 2026

Black's rooks were doubled against d1. Taking on d5 first keeps everything, and after g4 the rook on d1 simply falls.

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16. ♖xc3??

Best was ♕xb5+

Win chance 82% to 5% You spent 4.4s, 37s left Bullet against Master2700, 20 Sep 2026

Order matters. Take the bishop with check first, then recapture on c3.

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44... ♖e6??

Best was ♖e5+

Win chance 85% to 8% You spent 1.0s, 11s left Bullet against HuBaFisH, 24 Oct 2026

♖e5+ forks king and rook. ♖e6 walks onto a square the knight covers.

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37... ♖e2+??

Best was ♕e1+

Win chance 98% to 22% You spent 0.1s, 10s left Bullet against trumpbabykgb, 24 Oct 2026

♕e1+ wins the queen on d3 after ♔g2 ♗xd3. Instead your rook went, and your queen stayed attacked.

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8... ♘xd4??

Best was ♕a5+

Win chance 90% to 16% You spent 2.1s, 54s left Bullet against russ2514, 28 Oct 2026

♕a5+ hits the king and the loose bishop on c5 together. Queen checks that also hit a loose piece are worth drilling.

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The numbers

Rating over time

Bullet

7001100150020172019202120232025 1501

Blitz

70090011001300150020172019202120232025 1184

Rapid

10001200140016002017201920212023 1552

Daily

1000110012001300140020182020202220242026 1200

438 games, 136 of them analyzed by Stockfish so far. Results use every game. Error rates use the analyzed ones.

Results

By time control

GamesWonDrawnLostScore
Bullet3131561514252%
Blitz1131732%
Rapid921628%
Daily1053626735%

By color

GamesWonDrawnLostScore
White227104911448%
Black211931010846%

By opponent's rating compared with mine

GamesWonDrawnLostScore
200+ below me18160289%
75-199 below me1190282%
Within 743291581715451%
75-199 above me541214123%
200+ above me26212310%

When the errors happen

Mistakes and blunders per 100 of your moves.

By game phase

Opening5.4
Middlegame9.7
Endgame4.5
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MovesMistakesBlundersPer 100 moves
Opening1,47429505.36
Middlegame1,752621079.65
Endgame2,15221774.55

By move number

1-104.9
11-209.1
21-307.6
31-405.0
41+4.2
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MovesMistakesBlundersPer 100 moves
1-101,35724424.86
11-201,32548739.13
21-301,14628597.59
31-4085411325.04
41+6961284.17

By how the game stood

I was losing0.6
About equal8.1
I was winning15.2
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MovesMistakesBlundersPer 100 moves
I was losing2,2531310.62
About equal2,030571088.13
I was winning1,0954212515.25

A lost position has little left to lose, so its rate always looks low.

Time trouble

Only positions that were still undecided, because a decided game can't show a big drop in win chance. Bars are mistakes and blunders per 100 moves.

Bullet: by clock left

Over 50% left7.2
25-50% left19.0
10-25% left20.9
Under 10% left25.7
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MovesMistakesBlundersPer 100 moves
Over 50% left1,88658777.16
25-50% left211152518.96
10-25% left9161320.88
Under 10% left350925.71

Bullet: by time spent on the move

Under 1s4.5
1-3s9.3
3-10s10.1
10s+20.0
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MovesMistakesBlundersPer 100 moves
Under 1s2,53737764.45
1-3s2,100641319.29
3-10s26781910.11
10s+50120.0

Most common blunder types

Every mistake and blunder, sorted by a rule-based best guess at what went wrong.

Hung a piece25%
Other tactic23%
Positional17%
Endgame technique11%
Missed a free piece8%
Walked into a fork4%
Bad trade3%
Missed a fork3%
Walked into a pin3%
Missed a pin1%
Walked into mate1%
Missed a mate0%
Back-rank mate0%

Of 346 mistakes and blunders, 108 missed a winning tactic and 173 allowed one.

Games you were winning

You reached a win chance above 80% in 84 analyzed games and won 54 of them (64%). You also saved 46 games after falling below 20%.

The most recent ones that got away
DateTypeOpponentResultEnded byWorst movePeak
31 Oct 2026BulletRtm92Drawstalemate28. f597%
31 Oct 2026Bullet3men2jalajalaLosstimeout15. ♘xh786%
29 Oct 2026BulletAngelValRa_07Losscheckmated11. b697%
29 Oct 2026BulletGigii2024Losstimeout34. ♗e293%
29 Oct 2026BulletTryhard444UKLosscheckmated36. ♖e594%
28 Oct 2026BulletEricGutierrez2Losscheckmated16. ♔h895%
28 Oct 2026Bulletruss2514Drawrepetition8. ♘xd491%
28 Oct 2026BulletNostradamus2026Losscheckmated13. ♗xh693%
28 Oct 2026BulletJD_KoiteLosscheckmated17. ♖fe892%
28 Oct 2026BulletVyhsLosstimeout24. ♘g594%
28 Oct 2026Bulletab11ckLosscheckmated15. ♕h387%
27 Oct 2026BulletSimKFitLosstimeout5. ♘h393%

7,564 games, 136 of them analyzed by Stockfish so far. Results use every game. Error rates use the analyzed ones.

Results

By time control

GamesWonDrawnLostScore
Bullet3,7571833194173051%
Blitz2,3421104117112150%
Rapid5552631627649%
Daily9105282935360%

By color

GamesWonDrawnLostScore
White3,8381937182171953%
Black3,7261791174176150%

By opponent's rating compared with mine

GamesWonDrawnLostScore
200+ below me625533157786%
75-199 below me9196882520676%
Within 744,6952258255218251%
75-199 above me8411794561724%
200+ above me484701639816%

When the errors happen

Mistakes and blunders per 100 of your moves.

By game phase

Opening5.4
Middlegame9.7
Endgame4.5
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MovesMistakesBlundersPer 100 moves
Opening1,47429505.36
Middlegame1,752621079.65
Endgame2,15221774.55

By move number

1-104.9
11-209.1
21-307.6
31-405.0
41+4.2
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MovesMistakesBlundersPer 100 moves
1-101,35724424.86
11-201,32548739.13
21-301,14628597.59
31-4085411325.04
41+6961284.17

By how the game stood

I was losing0.6
About equal8.1
I was winning15.2
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MovesMistakesBlundersPer 100 moves
I was losing2,2531310.62
About equal2,030571088.13
I was winning1,0954212515.25

A lost position has little left to lose, so its rate always looks low.

Time trouble

Only positions that were still undecided, because a decided game can't show a big drop in win chance. Bars are mistakes and blunders per 100 moves.

Bullet: by clock left

Over 50% left7.2
25-50% left19.0
10-25% left20.9
Under 10% left25.7
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MovesMistakesBlundersPer 100 moves
Over 50% left1,88658777.16
25-50% left211152518.96
10-25% left9161320.88
Under 10% left350925.71

Bullet: by time spent on the move

Under 1s4.5
1-3s9.3
3-10s10.1
10s+20.0
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MovesMistakesBlundersPer 100 moves
Under 1s2,53737764.45
1-3s2,100641319.29
3-10s26781910.11
10s+50120.0

Most common blunder types

Every mistake and blunder, sorted by a rule-based best guess at what went wrong.

Hung a piece25%
Other tactic23%
Positional17%
Endgame technique11%
Missed a free piece8%
Walked into a fork4%
Bad trade3%
Missed a fork3%
Walked into a pin3%
Missed a pin1%
Walked into mate1%
Missed a mate0%
Back-rank mate0%

Of 346 mistakes and blunders, 108 missed a winning tactic and 173 allowed one.

Games you were winning

You reached a win chance above 80% in 84 analyzed games and won 54 of them (64%). You also saved 46 games after falling below 20%.

The most recent ones that got away
DateTypeOpponentResultEnded byWorst movePeak
31 Oct 2026BulletRtm92Drawstalemate28. f597%
31 Oct 2026Bullet3men2jalajalaLosstimeout15. ♘xh786%
29 Oct 2026BulletAngelValRa_07Losscheckmated11. b697%
29 Oct 2026BulletGigii2024Losstimeout34. ♗e293%
29 Oct 2026BulletTryhard444UKLosscheckmated36. ♖e594%
28 Oct 2026BulletEricGutierrez2Losscheckmated16. ♔h895%
28 Oct 2026Bulletruss2514Drawrepetition8. ♘xd491%
28 Oct 2026BulletNostradamus2026Losscheckmated13. ♗xh693%
28 Oct 2026BulletJD_KoiteLosscheckmated17. ♖fe892%
28 Oct 2026BulletVyhsLosstimeout24. ♘g594%
28 Oct 2026Bulletab11ckLosscheckmated15. ♕h387%
27 Oct 2026BulletSimKFitLosstimeout5. ♘h393%

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