Alexandra Botez

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Your first masterclass

French Defense

MacCutcheon, 6.Bd2: the knight on e4

♚ Black · Chapter 1 of 7

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Your masterclasses

The openings you actually play, understood move by move.

Your lessons

One series per kind of mistake, the most frequent first.

  1. Hanging piecesYour move left material hanging. Find the safe move.270times in your games
    0/24
  2. Calculation and planning errorsMiddlegame: the move played swings the evaluation.263times in your games
    0/24
  3. Missed tacticsThe position had a winning move. You walked past it.148times in your games
    0/24
  4. Spoiled endgamesFew pieces left, but precision counts double.76times in your games
    0/24
  5. Mates allowedYour move allowed a forced mate. Find the defence.14times in your games
    0/14
  6. Missed matesYou had a forced mate and did not play it. Find it.6times in your games
    0/6
Your analysis

The numbers behind your lessons

1,361 blunders found in these games. Here is where they come from.

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Against the Nimzo-Indian as White

30 games, 35.0% of the points scored: this is the opening that costs you the most, the equivalent of 5 games lost against an even score.

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Your numbers
How to read this
A 50% score means you break even: a win is worth 1 point, a draw 0.5.

49.6%your overall score366 wins · 62 draws · 372 losses
51.0%as White1.4 pts above your average
48.2%as Black2.8 pts lower than as White
1.70blunders per gamea blunder = a move that costs you at least 20 points of winning chances

Your openings
How to read this
Sorted by number of games. The bar starts at 50%: to the left you lose points, to the right you gain them. The light mark is your average score.
Out of the opening: the average edge Stockfish measures at move 12 (+1.0 ≈ a pawn up for you). Bad starts: the share of these games already clearly worse by move 12.

As White

Queen's Gambit87 games · +0.1 out of the opening · 7% bad starts
52.9%
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Against the Slav43 games · −0.2 out of the opening · 7% bad starts
53.5%
Against the King's Indian41 games · +0.1 out of the opening · 15% bad starts
59.8%
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Queen's Pawn Opening (1.d4)39 games · −0.5 out of the opening · 13% bad starts
39.7%
Against the Nimzo-Indian30 games · −0.3 out of the opening · 3% bad starts
35.0%

As Black

French Defense172 games · −0.3 out of the opening · 11% bad starts
50.3%
0/2
King's Indian Defense41 games · −0.2 out of the opening · 15% bad starts
40.2%
Indian Defenses26 games · −0.6 out of the opening · 15% bad starts
55.8%