The curriculum

At this level roughly 70% of losses come from one thing: pieces left hanging or simple tactics missed. Openings and strategy barely matter yet — board vision decides everything. The fastest rating gain in chess is here.

Blunders now cause only ~40% of your losses. The rest: you leave the opening without understanding what it was FOR, and you drift after move 15 — moving pieces without a plan while your opponent executes one. This track (and the plan cards it points to) attacks exactly that.

You reach playable middlegames but can't convert small edges, your plans are vague ('attack something'), and calculation is inconsistent — brilliant one move, blind the next. The fixes: pawn-structure literacy, a conversion method, and a calculation routine.

Technique is decent; games are decided by a handful of critical moments — recognising them, spending time on them, and defending resourcefully when worse. Also: your openings now need real depth in YOUR pet structures, not breadth.