Aarav Dhaygude

At a Glance

Aarav Dhaygude, known to the scoreboard as aarav1712, is living proof that chess strength is stored in the sleep schedule. His best hour by his own data is 1:00 AM, where the win rate is a flawless (and frankly suspicious) 100 percent, and his weapon of choice is blitz chess, where the ledger reads 137 wins, 53 losses, and 18 draws. Saturdays are statistically his strongest day. Sundays are best spent in horizontal meditation.

The Climb

The journey began in September 2021 with bullet ratings in the 600s and the humility that comes with them. Four years of grinding followed, thousands of games, slow inching upward. Then November 2025 happened: 142 bullet games, 101 wins, and a rating curve that went from pleasant to vertical. The bullet peak reached 2619, rapid hit 2401, and blitz topped out at 2455 (2026-10-13). The blitz chart below should really be studied in a lab.

Blitz: Where the Magic Lives

The blitz record is a gaudy one, with a strength-adjusted win rate near 69 percent and a longest winning streak of 23 games, which is roughly a full pizza night of uninterrupted dominance. Across all formats, 387 wins have come on time, which means the clock is effectively Aarav's second-favorite piece. Even the 10-game losing streak on record exists only to remind everyone that this is, in fact, a human.

The Opening Laboratory

On the black side, the French Defense is the crown jewel: 11 wins against a single loss in blitz, with the Caro-Kann Defense close behind at 5-1 and the Alapin Variation of the Sicilian Defense going 6-1. As White, Aarav treats faster games like an art gallery: the Amar Gambit, the Hungarian Wiedenhagen-Beta Gambit, and a Colle setup whose variation name sounds like a pterodactyl have all seen serious action. The King's Indian Attack was tried nearly a hundred times, retired with a 33 percent win rate, and is now spoken of only in the past tense.

A quick sampler of the Advance French: the kind of position this profile is built to dream in. The opening portfolio, graphed for the skeptical:

Style and Signature Habits

• Comeback rate of 80.8 percent: down material is not a crisis, it is a plot device.
• Early resignation rate of 1.94 percent. The resignation button is purely decorative.
• 26 career draws by stalemate, suggesting several opponents learned nothing from the warning labels.
• Endgame frequency of 73.5 percent and roughly 72 moves per win: a grinder's grinder.
• First capture typically arrives on move 6.7, which is chess for "polite, then greedy."
• The king has personally delivered 10 checks in nearly 3,000 analyzed games, every single one a certified jump scare.

Rivalries and Final Bosses

Some opponents bring out the best: a perfect 10-0 against 1tempestrimuru and a brisk 6-1 against sumanth256. Others bring out the rest: 1-8-1 against siddhant2012 and 1-7-1 against polarized_op, standing evidence that everyone has a nemesis, and Aarav has collected at least two.

How to Meet Him

Catch Aarav on a Saturday, ideally after midnight, and bring a clock you trust more than your own evaluation. If the calendar says 5 PM, reschedule: that hour has historically been where winning percentages go to hibernate. The blitz board is open, the coffee is implied, and the comeback is probably already underway.