Mladen Gajic: FIDE Master, Bullet Chess Machine
Mladen Gajic is a FIDE Master with a username, 2Coaches1Profile, that raises an important question nobody has answered yet: which of the two coaches gets to speak during timeouts? While that mystery remains unsolved, the chess does not. Mladen has logged nearly 8,000 bullet games on this platform, once played 1,573 of them in a single August (about 51 per day, every day), and pushed his peak bullet rating to 2869 (2026-08-22). When the clock is the enemy, Mladen is the scarier one.
The Man Who Refuses to Resign
Mladen's signature move is the comeback. With a comeback rate of 83.9 percent, he treats a lost position as a strong suggestion rather than a verdict. He resigns early about one percent of the time, survives into the endgame in over 80 percent of his games, and once ripped off a 27 game winning streak. His current five game losing streak is, statistically speaking, a rounding error with feelings.
Openings and Style
As Black, Mladen's bread and butter is the Alekhine Defense, played more than 800 times in bullet alone, though the scoreboard there is a coin flip at best. As White, he dabbles in everything from the Sicilian Defense via the Alapin to the Nimzo-Larsen Attack, plus a Colle line with a pterosaur for a name, the Rhamphorhynchus Variation. Here is a taste of his Alekhine:
Nemeses and Perfect Victims
Every great player has two kinds of opponents: the ones they never beat and the ones they never lose to. Against brawlstarsgeorg Mladen is a flawless 51 wins, zero losses, and against accam an equally brutal 48 wins, zero losses. Then there is Armin Mušović, who has beaten Mladen 63 times in 92 meetings. Somewhere between those two extremes lies the rest of the internet.
Slow Chess Exists Too
Bullet may be home, but Mladen is comfortable when the clock relaxes. His rapid record is a crushing 177 wins against 25 losses, including a perfect 13 for 13 in Petrov's Defense. In daily chess he stands a spotless 13 wins, zero losses, zero draws, possibly because slower games give him time to think, and possibly because no one has dared otherwise.
Miscellaneous Greatness
- Best hour to play: noon. Worst hour: 8 a.m., when even FIDE Masters are just people without coffee.
- Favorite checking piece: the queen, with the rook a close second. When the first check lands, Mladen wins 56 percent of the time, and he lands it half the time.
- Only 11 stalemate draws in thousands of games. If it ends, it usually ends decisively.
- He beats lower rated opponents 63 percent of the time, which is normal, and higher rated ones about 30 percent, which is why we get to write bios about him.