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Congratulations on some impressive and well-deserved results! If the games you've posted here are a representative sample, you've improved enormously since I started following your posts last year. Looking forward to more inspiring tales in the coming months.

Toadofsky

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Nicely played! By following general principles about king safely and piece development, and having an acute tactical awareness, 1500 is easily within reach.

Of course it helps to play familiar openings/tabia/systems, so to whatever extent you learn and remember positions from your games (and someday, games you study) that'll help too.

Engine feedback can be tricky to understand at times, even for strong chess players. For example, it isn't that ...Qd7 is a brilliant move, it's that ...hxg5 self-destructs in an already difficult position. After crossing 1500, learning to not self-destruct when the opponent makes the position complicated will be a valuable skill. You'd be surprised what experts can get away with!

https://lichess.org/1On4nVMb/black#57

Nicely played! By following general principles about king safely and piece development, and having an acute tactical awareness, 1500 is easily within reach. Of course it helps to play familiar openings/tabia/systems, so to whatever extent you learn and remember positions from your games (and someday, games you study) that'll help too. Engine feedback can be tricky to understand at times, even for strong chess players. For example, it isn't that ...Qd7 is a brilliant move, it's that ...hxg5 self-destructs in an already difficult position. After crossing 1500, learning to not self-destruct when the opponent makes the position complicated will be a valuable skill. You'd be surprised what experts can get away with! https://lichess.org/1On4nVMb/black#57