Meet aflatunmamedov
aflatunmamedov is an online chess warrior with a split personality. The Blitz scoreboard shows over 24,000 games, a mountain of battles, and a peak of 2511 (2025-12-30). The Rapid scoreboard, though, shows something almost mythical: 7 games, 7 wins, and a perfect record. Rapid is listed as the preferred time control, a decision that looks genius when the rapid sample is a flawless seven.
Career Arc
aflatunmamedov entered 2017 with a blitz rating of 658. By early 2020 something clicked, and the graph went vertical, passing 2000 and eventually touching 2511 (2025-12-30) at the end of 2025. That is a climb of roughly 1,850 points. The
shows a player who refused to stop grinding, with a long winning streak of 34 games and a comeback rate of 89.45%.Opening Repertoire
With White, aflatunmamedov is a loyal servant of the Réti Opening, playing 1.Nf3 thousands of times. There is also a fondness for the Colle System, including a variation whose official name seems partially redacted, probably because it is too dangerous. With Black, the Benko Gambit appears in nearly a thousand games, showing a willingness to sacrifice a pawn for activity. The
supports the style: solid results with the favorite setups and a 47.35% win rate even after losing a piece.A typical Réti start looks like
.Rivalries
No biography is complete without rivals. aflatunmamedov has faced oleksandr_11 261 times, and the series is genuinely close: oleksandr_11 leads 113 to 93 with 55 draws. Against Tom Borvander the script flips, with aflatunmamedov winning 123 of 212 meetings. Every grinder needs a nemesis and a comfort opponent, and these two fill those roles.
Rapid Perfection
The Rapid section is the crown jewel. In April 2025 aflatunmamedov reached 2000 (2025-04-07), and the seven Rapid games include wins from the Slav Defense and the Sicilian Defense. Undefeated, unbothered, and almost certainly under-sampled.
Quirks and Numbers
- Comeback rate of 89.45%, meaning the player is never truly out of a game.
- Longest winning streak of 34 games, longest losing streak of 10.
- Endgame frequency of 85.26%, with rook checks leading the way at over 24,000 delivered.
- The best time of day is 03:00, which explains a lot about a 10 game losing streak if it happened at 2am.
- aflatunmamedov resigns early in only 19% of games, preferring to make opponents prove the win.