Meet Vinicius Catozzo Jr
NM Vinicius Catozzo Jr, better known online as Alucard2020, is a National Master who treats the chess clock like a sparring partner. The username might summon a vampire hunter, but the games tell a different story: this is a player who loves long, grindy battles in the Queen's Gambit Declined and then, just for fun, will jump into a bullet match and play something called the Amar Gambit.
His profile says bullet is the preferred time control, but the real romance is with blitz. He has played thousands of blitz games, survived losing streaks of 12, and also strung together 13 wins in a row. The man is chaos with a title.
A Repertoire Built on d4
Vinicius is a loyal 1.d4 player. In his most active years, d4 appeared more than 90 percent of the time as White. From there, he dives into the Caro-Kann Defense as Black and the Queen's Gambit Declined as White. His sharpest weapon is the line 4.Bg5 Be7 5.cxd5 Nxd5, where he scores close to 59 percent. As Black, the Caro-Kann is his old friend, with nearly 300 recorded games.
He also enjoys the Slav Defense and has a soft spot for the Amazon Attack, a name that sounds more like a video game than an opening. The opening chart below shows where the points come from, and where the heartbreak lives.
Numbers That Tell Stories
Vinicius is not a player who panics after losing a piece. His comeback rate is over 81 percent, and he still wins more than 43 percent of games after being down material. Early resignation? Almost never. He plays until the endgame, and he plays there often, with endgame positions appearing in roughly 79 percent of his games.
He is also oddly balanced: his White win rate is 46.89 percent and his Black win rate is 45.18 percent. If you want the peak of his blitz journey, this chart says it better than words:
Rivalries and Rituals
Every hero needs a villain, and for Vinicius that villain is magodochess. They have faced each other 28 times, and magodochess leads the series with 20 wins to Vinicius' 5. The rivalry is not just a stat, it is a recurring chapter in the Alucard2020 story. Revenge has not fully arrived yet, but the sample size is growing.
Time matters too. His best hour to play is 10:00, where his recorded win rate is a perfect 100 percent, albeit in a tiny sample. His worst hour is 17:00, which is probably when he should close the app and go for a walk.