AlekhinesBeef: The National Master With a Bone to Pick
AlekhinesBeef is a National Master who took one look at 1.e4 and decided to hold a grudge. The username tips the hat to Alexander Alekhine, and the repertoire absolutely backs it up: as Black, they have wheeled out the Alekhine Defense more than 1,100 times in blitz alone, happily letting White build a big center just to nibble it apart later. Provocation as an opening philosophy, and it has carried them to a peak blitz rating of 2768 (2026-03-22).
Since first appearing online in early 2022, the climb has been long, loud, and mostly at your expense.
The Blitz Grind
Roughly 19,700 blitz games in under five years works out to about a dozen every single day, holidays included. Most wins come the hard way: the average victory runs about 85 moves, the endgame shows up in over 80% of their games, and the early resignation rate sits at a stubborn 21%. Drop a piece against this player at your peril, because the comeback rate is north of 90%.
The tilt factor clocks in at a glacial 11. The pulse does not move. The beef just simmers.
The Opening Buffet
As White, it is 1.e4 nearly always, served with the French Defense Exchange Variation as the house special, played almost 900 times at better than 50%, plus mountains of Caro-Kann Defense and Najdorf structures with an Opocensky twist. As Black, it is Alekhine or nothing, backed by King's Indian fianchetto setups and a healthy suspicion of the Amazon Attack.
The calling card:
Rivalries and Nemeses
No feud in online chess is better documented than the 395-game war with Friend_of_Horse, a series AlekhinesBeef actually leads, 198 wins to 127 losses, with 70 draws nobody remembers. Then there is Alan Stein, the riddle that will not solve: 19 wins, 44 losses, and still they queue up again anyway. Extra respect goes to Daniel Girsh and Steve Berger, true sparring partners in every sense.
- Longest winning streak: 14 games of pure momentum
- Longest losing streak: 11 games of character building
- Hot streaks come in batches, and so do the lessons
Beef Facts
- Title: National Master, earned the honest way, one 85-move win at a time
- Preferred battlefield: blitz, by a landslide
- Entire daily chess career: one draw in August 2022, a masterpiece of neutrality
- Most common checking piece: the rook, deployed over 20,000 times, and rarely as a courtesy
- Wins 44% of games even after losing material, so never celebrate early
- Favorite snack: your overextended center pawns
Challenge them if you must. Bring a packed lunch, guard your e4 pawn, and whatever you do, do not resign too soon. They certainly never do.