Andrey Pich: The Bullet Chess Grinder
Andrey Pich, known on the board as AndreyPichugin, is an online chess player whose relationship with the clock can only be described as codependent. Since first appearing in mid 2021, he has played more than 25,000 rated games across bullet chess, blitz chess, and rapid chess, with nearly 20,000 of them in bullet. His debut set the tone: he entered rapid at 1336 in June 2021 and finished that same month above 2139, an opening act suggesting he had done some training somewhere, possibly in a dream.
Career Arc: Volume Is a Strategy
His bullet career began in February 2022 with a single game, a win, and a rating of 1389. A year later he was logging 1,233 bullet games in one month, and across 2023 he averaged roughly nineteen bullet games per day, every day, like a man brushing his teeth. The effort paid off with a bullet peak of 2290 (2026-09-17), a blitz peak of 2452 (2026-04-03), and a rapid peak of 2436 (2026-07-16), all set in 2026, plus a career total of 10,470 bullet wins. The climb below is the evidence that playing a lot is, in fact, a training plan.
Opening Repertoire: 1.e4 and Then a Nice Conversation
Andrey opens with the king's pawn. Really, he opens with the king's pawn: more than 12,700 games started with 1.e4, and exactly seven began with 1.e3, presumably once a year to keep the universe honest. As White he has logged nearly a thousand games of the Four Knights Game at a 59.85% bullet win rate, faced the Caro-Kann Defense over a thousand times, and happily plays the Chekhover Variation, the Sicilian where the queen lands on d4 at move four. Given that his most common checking piece is the queen, the choice feels autobiographical.
As Black he is a Sicilian and Benoni man. His signature is the Accelerated Dragon, played more than 1,500 times in bullet at 56.67%, with the Old Benoni adding almost 1,500 more. Opponents have tried to spice things up: 349 of them answered 1.e4 with the Barnes Defense, 1...f6, and lost more often than not. The Alapin and Rossolimo setups remain his soft spots, holding him under 47% in bullet.
Rivalries: The Nemesis Spreadsheet
Some players collect titles. Andrey collects nemeses. His most frequent opponent is Marko Pavlovic, against whom he has played 109 games, won 40, lost 66, and apparently learned nothing, because game 110 keeps happening. Horațiu Rauca and yanowsky complete the torment trio at a combined 230 meetings and 142 defeats. In fairness, he also has favorite victims, outplaying Amr El and bob lee swager over hundreds of shared games while bullying capivara2501 along the way.
Habits, Quirks, and the 1 AM Superpower
The stats read like a sleep study. His best hour is 1 AM, where he wins 60.9% of his games; at 2 AM the spell breaks and it collapses to 40.9%. Tuesdays are his holy day at 55.2%, Saturdays his penance. He holds an 85% comeback rate, so when you win a piece against him, all you have really done is start a new game. His tilt factor sits at a zen-like 11, his longest winning streak is 18 games, and his longest losing streak is a merciful 11.
- Endgame frequency of 78.6%, remarkable for bullet, with wins averaging nearly 68 moves.
- The clock is both his sword and his executioner: 4,322 wins by timeout, but also 7,508 losses by timeout, his most common cause of death.
- 21,186 queen checks delivered, checking first 55% of the time and winning 58.7% of those games.
- A 52.7 point gap between rated and casual results, suggesting casual chess is, to him, a formality.
- He beats lower rated opponents 62.7% of the time and higher rated ones 31.9%. The food chain is respected.
The Verdict
Andrey Pich is what happens when someone decides bullet chess is a lifestyle rather than a feature. Ten thousand bullet wins, peak ratings in three formats, an 18 game heater, and a nemesis list longer than some opening repertoires. If you queue him at midnight, be warned: at 1 AM he is at his best, and if you survive to 2 AM, his flag is never far from falling. The grind, by all appearances, continues.