Season 1 · Week 8 of 13
Your season so far
Aug 29 – Nov 28
- 64Blitz games played
- 16Focus-area puzzles solved
- 3Videos & studies
Your recent form
How the games behind each check-in scored on Lichess's own analysis: your recent form across the season, not your overall profile.
Lichess's own numbers, from the 5 of your last 11 games that have server analysis.
The endgame work is landing: three weeks of reps showing up on the board
Last week I asked you to slow down once the queens come off, and you did. Your two longest games this week were also two of your cleanest. Your Tuesday rook endgame is the one to remember: a pawn up, and this time the rook went behind the passer immediately.
Eleven rated blitz games this week, and steady work on the plan: four rook-endgame puzzles solved and the pawn-endgame video finished.
You went 7-2-2 over eleven blitz games. You scored 4½/6 against 1400-rated opposition and 3½/5 against the 1500s, and both losses came after move 35.
Tuesday's rook ending is the clearest read of the week: a pawn up, rook behind the passer, converted without a second thought. The exact position your report said you were giving away. The fork pattern has gone quiet too: no material lost to a loose-piece tactic in three weeks now. What has not moved is the clock. Three games ended under ten seconds from roughly equal positions. Endgame conversion is still the open file.
Keep the rook-endgame set moving: ten more solves this window, and when a game reaches a pawn-up ending, take ten seconds before the first technical move.
One more from your week
Milestones
- Loose-piece forksMastered · 71% clean
The report this season was built on
Every season opens by reading your recent games closely. The insights report is step one, and the focus areas below are drawn from it.
Your playing style
You play sharp, initiative-seeking chess: you win material with tactics and you attack before your opponent is ready. The points leak later. Winning endgames drift toward draws, and level ones tip against you once the tactics dry up. Your openings are sound but you leave known territory early and spend the clock recovering.
Already working
- Your middlegame tactics are the engine of your results. Most of your 18 wins came from converted attacks or won material.
- 11 of 40 games were clean (no mistakes or blunders). When your position makes sense to you, you play it accurately.
- Your openings hold up: 92% opening accuracy means the first ten moves rarely put you behind.
Tendencies
- You trade into endgames a pawn up, then let the win slip. Endgame accuracy (61%) trails your opening (92%) by thirty points.
- Your pieces land on active but loose squares; knight forks against them cost you material in several losses.
- When the position goes quiet you spend clock looking for tactics that are not there, then rush the technical phase.
9 inaccuracies
21 inaccuracies
18 inaccuracies
3 lost despite clean play
Built from 40 analyzed games · generated on Aug 29, 2026 · you can refresh it every month
Focus areas
One card per diagnosed weakness: the finding, a concept to learn, and a Lichess puzzle theme to drill. Solves auto-track for a member.
You reach winning or equal endgames and then give the result away: 23 of your 41 endgame errors came in positions the engine scored at least +2 for you. The pattern is consistent: the rook belongs behind the passed pawn, the king stays home a move too long, and a technical win becomes a draw.
- Nine endgame blunders across the sample, more than the opening and middlegame combined.
- Three losses arrived in rook endgames that were winning or dead level at move 40.
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