Aaron Balleisen
Aaron Balleisen, known online as aaronmaster123, is a National Master who has spent years proving that a chess clock is not a suggestion. His natural habitat is bullet chess, where preparation meets panic and the mouse usually wins. Since 2013 he has piled up thousands of online games, and his peak bullet rating is 2482 (2026-07-11). He also keeps a serious blitz presence, but the fast clicks are clearly where his heart lives.
Aaron holds a strange kind of perfection: his longest winning streak and his longest losing streak are both 16. That is not a contradiction. That is a man who loves the next game no matter what happened in the last one.
The Openings of a Happy Risk Taker
Aaron never enters a game with a boring smile. He willingly steps into the Amar Gambit, tries the Caro-Kann Defense, and circles through enough Sicilian Defense lines to make any opening book feel left out. His records show a real fondness for unusual first moves, especially in bullet, where surprise is a weapon.
His stats also say he is dangerous after 7:00 AM, when the coffee and the clock synchronize. If you meet him before that, just be polite and bring a premove.
Rivalries That Follow Him
No opponent appears more often in Aaron's history than Emmanuel Carter. They have faced each other more than 200 times, and the scoreboard still has never asked for a break. Meanwhile, Daniel Moreno is another long-time dance partner, with hundreds of games and plenty of drama to show for it. Every rematch is a long story in two blinks.
The Dashboard Life of a Master
- A comeback rate above 82 percent, which means he is never really gone until the clock says so.
- A huge habit: he will happily reach the endgame even when the clock is howling.
- A first-capture instinct that happens around move seven, so early trades are a love language.
- A living reminder that "one more bullet" is only true after the next game.
If you see aaronmaster123 in the queue, expect fireworks, quick clicking, and at least one interesting opening name you will look up later.