A noisy little week at the blitz board: seven games, 3–3–1, the rating sliding to an 886 floor before a late run dragged it back to 902. The grind underneath is still the honest story: 200 games, 88–104–8, a 44% clip that keeps bouncing off the same 1000–1099 wall (26% over 23). White is the better half (49% over 99) and Black still leaks (39% over 101); mornings are the good hours (53%), evenings the bad ones (38%). The London holds at 50% over 64, the Caro-Kann drips at 41%. Three wins, three losses, a draw, and no breakthrough, but no collapse either, just a floor that held.
Seven games, one dip and one recovery: 910 down to an 886 floor and back to 902. The bleeding stopped where it usually doesn't, the late games. No new ground, but the week refused to end on the low.
White scores 49% over 99; Black just 39% over 101. The Caro-Kann that sings in rapid is the same line that leaks here, and the split shows it.
Against 1000–1099 I win 26% over 23, the ceiling every climb keeps hitting. Below it I crush the 800s (74%); at it, the wall holds.
Mornings are the good hours (53% over 55), evenings the worst (38% over 63). The late games are where the rating goes to die.
A 38% throwaway rate over the season, 2.35 blunders a game, winning positions handed back. The next mountain isn't openings, it's not flinging the won ones away.
Seven weeks, 200 games, 88–104–8: a sub-.500 grind that has worn a 1028 peak down to 902. The wall at 1000–1099 (26%) is the whole story, and the throwaways are why. Fix the giveaways and the climb resumes.