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What kind of chess mind
are you?

Enter your Chess.com username. Blueprint reads your games and shows you exactly who you are as a player.

Which one are you?

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Disciplined Thinker

Turns calm positions into storms

♛

Force of Nature

Demands the initiative at all times

♜

Iron Builder

Builds pressure until something breaks

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The Craftsman

Quiet, precise, and always a step ahead

Your chess mind

Disciplined

Thinker

You thrive in creating complexity — your games are full of unexpected ideas that challenge your opponents. But, you often slip by releasing pressure too soon, throwing away winning positions. The arc is teaching you to make your advantages stick — same identity, higher precision.

Identity: Disciplined Thinker → Make your advantages stick

5-8

DEW window

4 of 5 games decided here

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Decisive Event Window — the move range where most of your games become irreversible. Yours is moves 5-8. This is the exact moment the Blueprint trains. As the habit improves, watch this number shift later.

73.4%

Win rate

Rapid · 350 games

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Win rate across your analyzed games. This is the baseline the Blueprint works from. The arc improves it by fixing decision quality in the DEW window.

13.7%

Won → lost

Most games become irreversible at moves 5-8. This is when the first significant piece exchange happens — the moment setup turns into consequences.

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Games where you held a winning advantage and lost. This is the DEW cascade in action — a single unverified decision at moves 5-8 flips the game. Fixing habit ① directly reduces this number.

Your habits — tap to expand

①

You stop checking when it matters most

① Fix this first · ●

Always double-check what your opponent wants and adapt your plan.

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②

You trade pieces too early

② Secondary · ●

Maintain the tension longer before exchanging pieces.

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③

Your castles come late, risking safety

③ Secondary · ●

Prioritize castling early to secure your king.

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④

You don't make the most of your extra pieces

④ Supporting · ●

Focus on simplifying the position when you are ahead.

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⑤

You rush instead of consolidating

⑤ Supporting · ●

Slow down and tighten your position before pushing further.

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The Good Magnuscarlsen

✓Creates problems opponents can't solve easily

✓Finds opportunities others miss

✓Turns small advantages into significant ones

The Bad Magnuscarlsen

✗Starts trading too early, losing momentum

✗Struggles to convert advantages

✗Rushes position solidifying moves

Your Recommended Arc

You're here. The curriculum moves you to the gold dot — same style, higher precision.

Structured
Aggressor

Chaos
Architect

Quiet
Builder

Wild
Fighter

You

→ Higher spin

← Structured Chaotic →

Tap to understand why →

Today's Study

Week 1 of 6 — First Contact Layer

Study 1

Start here

How a master handles the moment you struggle with

"Before the break: what changes, what opens, what is their best reply?"

Review the first study in the curriculum

Play one rapid game and identify the DEW moment

Answer the 4 contact questions before your first exchange

Go deeper:

Why you're here

Three habits. One to fix before the others matter.

① Fix this first

You stop checking when it matters most

In 77.4% of your lost games, you had an advantage but let it slip. This is often because you don't reassess your opponent's threats before acting.

Always double-check what your opponent wants and adapt your plan.

② Secondary

You trade pieces too early

Your matches show you often exchange pieces prematurely, losing the potential to build pressure. This happens in nearly all games.

Maintain the tension longer before exchanging pieces.

③ Secondary

Your castles come late, risking safety

With only 46.9% of your games castled by move 10, you leave your king in vulnerable positions for too long.

Prioritize castling early to secure your king.

④ Supporting

You don't make the most of your extra pieces

In 13.7% of your games, you failed to convert a material advantage into a win, showing gaps in ending clear advantages.

Focus on simplifying the position when you are ahead.

⑤ Supporting

You rush instead of consolidating

Your games reflect an urgency that often leads to suboptimal moves, especially key phases like the early midgame.

Slow down and tighten your position before pushing further.

5-8

When your games turn

Most games become irreversible at moves 5-8. This is when the first significant piece exchange happens — the moment setup turns into consequences.

Opening

Low

5-8 ←

Critical

13–20

High

Endgame

Low

13.7%

Winning positions converted

When you gain the advantage, this is how often you close it. The verification gap in one number.

88%

Karpov alignment

The contact-removal habit is already half there.

Study

Your curriculum.

Eight master games. Each one fixes a specific habit. Work through them in order — the sequence is deliberate.

Your training track

Practical

2–3 weeks

Fix the leak fast. Daily 25–40 min warm-up layer.

Coming soon

Active

Balanced

4–6 weeks

Fix the core bottleneck. 3 training days + 2 play-and-review days per week.

Studies 1–8 ↓

Deep

6–10 weeks

Rewire the chess brain. 1–2× per week alongside Balanced.

Coming soon

Progress through the arc0 / 8

All 8 studies

From Disciplined Thinker to The Craftsman 0%

1

Restriction before expansion.

Karpov vs Unzicker, Nice 1974 · C98 Spanish

Week 1 · Better

Better

2

The compression move.

Carlsen vs Aronian, Candidates 2013 · D37 QGD

Week 2 · Better

Better

3

Hold tension until the position tells you.

Karpov vs Polugaevsky, Candidates 1974 · B92 Najdorf

Week 3 · Equal

Equal

4

Prophylaxis — remove their best resource.

Petrosian vs Bronstein, Amsterdam 1956 · E66 King's Indian

Week 4 · Worse

Worse

5

Strategic patience under pressure.

Karpov vs Korchnoi, Candidates 1974 · B77 Sicilian Dragon

Week 5 · Better

Better

6

Earned aggression — not improvised.

Tal vs Botvinnik, WCh 1960 Game 11 · B12 Caro-Kann

Week 6 · Better

Better

7

When winning — restrict, then collect.

Karpov vs Unzicker, Nice 1974 — Q4 · C98 Spanish

Week 7 · Convert

Convert

8

Apply the framework to your own games.

Personal Overlay — 5 recent games · DEW annotation

Week 8 · Yours

Yours

Equal — hold and improve

Better — restrict then attack

Worse — increase complexity

Convert — close it out

Prep

Before you play.

Read this before sitting down. Your identity, your focus for today, and your rules — all in one place.

Your identity statement

When better:

Remove counterplay.

When equal:

Improve. Verify. Then decide.

When worse:

Increase complexity.

You are a Disciplined Thinker player. You love dynamic and unpredictable chess, and it shows in your strength to create potential. Keep using your chaos ability to unsettle opponents, but learn to recognize when it's time to close the deal with patience and discipline.

"Play like Hikaru when worse. Think like Magnus when equal or better."

Position matrix

State Your job Key actions

BETTER

Squeeze

Improve worst piece, trade queens, restrict breaks, reduce counterplay.

EQUAL

Improve

Hold favorable tension, develop fully, use prophylaxis.

WORSE

Complicate

Increase tension, seek initiative, avoid simplification.

30-second pre-move routine

Castle?

Is my king safe? Have I castled?

Threats?

What is my opponent threatening?

State?

Am I better, equal, or worse?

Boring?

Is the best move the quiet one?

Progress

Your growth path.

Each milestone unlocks the next stage of your chess identity. This is the road from Disciplined Thinker to The Craftsman.

▶ YOU ARE HERE

Dynamic Creator

You create ideas with dynamism and style.

Tap for details ›

Stage 1

Pressure Maintainer

You learn to hold your advantages longer.

↑ +50 rating

Tap for details ›

Stage 2

Conversion Specialist

You convert small gains into wins reliably.

↑ +80 rating

Tap for details ›

Target ArchetypeGOAL

The Craftsman

You master maintaining tension and seeing victories through.

↑ +130 rating total

Tap for details ›

Study

Decision training.

25 positions mapped to your exact failure patterns. Not random tactics — decision quality at the moves that matter.

Blueprint insight

How this maps to your losses

Pattern

Freq

Set

First-contact misread

4/5

C1

Premature tension release

3/5

C2

Counterplay allowed

2/5

C3

Conversion miss

1/5

C5

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Review

Is it working?

Your last 5 games through the Blueprint lens. Each session leaves a trace — this is where you read it. Tap any game to see your full discipline scorecard.

Your last 5 games

W

magnuscarlsen (?) vs SunflowerGW2

Blitz · Sicilian Defense Katalimov Var · 31 moves

DEW: move 11 ✗

09-01

70

Full audit →

W

magnuscarlsen (?) vs SunflowerGW2

Blitz · French Defense La Bourdonnais · 44 moves

DEW: move 8 ✗

09-01

70

Full audit →

W

magnuscarlsen (?) vs SunflowerGW2

Blitz · Modern Defense Standard Pseudo · 21 moves

DEW: move 8 ✗

09-01

70

Full audit →

W

magnuscarlsen (?) vs SunflowerGW2

Blitz · Nimzo Indian Defense Samisch V · 35 moves

DEW: move 17 ✓

09-01

70

W

magnuscarlsen (?) vs Sychev_Klementy

Blitz · Undefined · 26 moves

DEW: move 8 ✗

09-01

70

Your Recurring Pattern

Aggressive setup

You set up attacks brilliantly, generating practical challenges for opponents.

Works well

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Premature trading

Once ahead, you start trading pieces too early, giving up pressure.

Problematic

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Losing thread

By simplifying too early, you sometimes lose sight of the game's thread, allowing opponents back into the game.

Issue

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Late consolidation

When leading, skipping key consolidation moves lets opponents create counter chances.

Vulnerable

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Forced to defend

You end up defending more than necessary due to these earlier missteps.

By holding the tension longer in your games, you'll be able to convert your opportunities more consistently, turning pressure into victories.

Pattern Analysis · Last 5 Games

4 of 5 games hinge on the same pattern.

Coming soon

CRITICAL · 77.4%

You stop checking when it matters most

HIGH · 99.4%

You trade pieces too early

HIGH · 46.9%

Your castles come late, risking safety

MEDIUM · 13.7%

You don't make the most of your extra pieces

You're not losing because you lack ideas. You're losing because you act one move before the position is ready.

Chess mind stability

Disciplined Thinker ✓ stable

Run 1

Identity confirmed and stable. Training is refining it, not changing it.

DEW window — evolution

Moves 5-8 baseline at start of arc

Moves 5-8 refining now

The target: survive past moves 5-8 with the position intact.

Habit trend

You stop checking when it matters most

77.4%

→ Always double-check for threats just before acting

You trade pieces too early

99.4%

→ Hold off on piece trades until they clearly benefit you

Your castles come late, risking safety

46.9%

→ Plan to castle by move 10

You don't make the most of your extra pieces

13.7%

→ Simplify when ahead

You rush instead of consolidating

50.0%

→ Tighten your position before pushing further

Play

Find your match.

Don't just play someone your rating. Play someone whose style will stress-test the exact habit you're training right now.

Your training target this week

① Primary constraint

Practice prophylaxis at first contact.

Your eagerness to exchange pieces before solidifying an advantage often leads to losing momentum. This key issue is observed in nearly every game where trades happened before concrete breakthroughs.

Your ideal opponent profile

Rating range

3283–3410

Style

Tension creators

Opens early at

Moves 5-8

Avoids

Simple positions

Find a match

Find on Chess.com

350 games · 73.4% win rate · Rapid

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Find on Lichess

350 games · 73.4% win rate · Rapid

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Coming soon: As Blueprint analyzes more players, we'll surface specific opponents whose style is ideal for your current training target — by name, not just by profile.

Chess Mind

Your chess mind.

350 games. Every pattern, every habit, every decision window — mapped. Tap anything to go deeper.

Your position in chess space

Tap your dot to understand your coordinate

Your spin — execution precision

Tap to understand what execution precision means

Cognitive radar — 7 dimensions

Tap radar to learn what each dimension means

Patterns Blueprint found — tap each one

🔥 77.4%

⚡ 99.4%

👁 46.9%

♟ 13.7%

🏰 50.0%

Each icon = a repeating pattern. Size = how often. Color = priority.

When your games turn — 44 losses

low

1–8

DEW

CRITICAL

5-8

high

13–18

medium

19–30

low

31+

Tap any bar to understand that phase

When you're winning — what happens next

73%

Won

8%

Drawn

77%

Lost

Tap each circle to understand what's happening

Who you play like

♔

88%

Karpov

♙

85%

Carlsen ✗

♖

83%

Petrosian

♘

81%

Fischer

♗

78%

Capablanca

Tap each master to learn their role in your arc

Your openings — win rate

B06 Modern Defense With 1 E4...5.Qe2 O O 6.O O C6

14 games

79%

D35 Queens Gambit Declined Exchange Variation 4...Exd5 5.Bf4

10 games

80%

B23 Closed Sicilian Defense...3.F4 B5 4.Nf3 Bb7

10 games

40%

E24 Nimzo Indian Defense Samisch Variation 5...D6 6.F3

9 games

67%

B90 Sicilian Defense Open Najdorf English Attack

8 games

88%

B00 Nimzowitsch Defense Declined Colorado Countergambit Accepted 3...D5

8 games

62%

Dataset

Games350

Record257W · 62L · 31D

Rating3283–3410

Span2026.05.19 to 2026.09.24

OppositionMixed

Time controlRapid

ConfidenceHigh

EngineBlueprint v1.2

Win rate73.4%

Runs1

What kind of chess mindare you?

Why you're here

You stop checking when it matters most

You trade pieces too early

Your castles come late, risking safety

You don't make the most of your extra pieces

You rush instead of consolidating

What kind of chess mind
are you?