Meet Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi
Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi, known online as Aakash-Dalvi7, is a FIDE International Master who treats the one-minute clock like a personal playground. While other titled players sip coffee and study rook endings, Aakash has played more than 52,000 rated online games, most of them in bullet. That is not a typo. The man simply refuses to let the clock run out without a fight.
Playing Style and Favorite Openings
Aakash is a creature of habit. With the white pieces he will happily drift into the King's Indian Attack, a Colle setup, or the gloriously named Rhamphorhynchus Variation. With black he leans on the Sicilian Defense and waits for the fireworks. His opening repertoire reads like a zoo with the Australian Defense, the Amar Gambit, and even a sprinkle of Czech Defense, but the data suggests he is at his best when the position is messy and the queens start flying.
- Most played bullet opening: Colle Rhamphorhynchus Variation with over 4,300 games
- King's Indian Attack: more than 4,100 bullet games
- Favorite response to 1.e4: the Sicilian Defense in all its many shapes
The Numbers Behind the Madness
The dashboard behind Aakash is gloriously chaotic. He has reached a bullet peak of 3207 (2026-08-07) and a blitz peak of 3055 (2026-08-14), while his longer rating journey looks like a mountain range drawn by a caffeinated elephant. He has won 32 games in a row and also lost 23 in a row, which suggests he either tilts magnificently or simply loves a rollercoaster. His comeback rate is 83.9 percent, and his win rate after losing a piece is 47.08 percent, so the wise opponent keeps counting until the very end.
A Rivalry for the Ages
No biography of Aakash would be complete without his chief nemesis, Vaibhav Raut. The two have faced off in over 2,400 games. Aakash has won 1,066, lost 1,175, and drawn 165, a record so balanced it feels like a physics experiment. If they ever meet over the board, officials should probably schedule a second clock and a third coffee.
One sample of his Sicilian adventures, for the curious:
Life Advice from the Data
According to the stats, Aakash plays his best chess at 1 AM, his tilt factor is a brave 23, and his early resignation rate is 0.89, which means he would rather let his king wander into the sunset than click resign. The moral of the story is simple: bring a snack, bring a clock, and never expect a quiet game when Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi is sitting across from you.