AnonBlind: The Ghost Who Grinds Bullet Chess
Some players build an online chess reputation with a photo, a stream, and a personality. AnonBlind built one with a username that answers nothing, a clock that trembles, and a bullet chess rating that keeps climbing. No face, no flair, no mercy: just 1.d4, a London System edge, and an uncanny ability to win games that looked completely lost.
The Five-Year Perfect Retirement
In 2016, AnonBlind played exactly one rated blitz game. It began with 1.e4, drifted into a Sicilian, and ended as a 53-move grind to victory. Then, in the coldest move in online chess, AnonBlind retired on top and did not touch rated blitz for five years.
The comeback tour started in August 2021, when a single month of blitz lifted the rating from 1732 to 2092. A bullet debut followed in November 2021: one game, one win, another vanishing act. The real grind arrived in August 2024 with 102 blitz games in a month and an average near 2450. By September 2026, AnonBlind was playing hundreds of games per month and peaking at 2646 (2026-09-30) in blitz, backed by a career record of 275 wins against 187 losses.
Bullet Chess Is Home
Blitz gets the headlines, but bullet is the natural habitat. The bullet peak sits at 2619 (2026-09-29), and the record now reads 152 wins against 86 losses. Of those wins, 148 came by timeout, which means AnonBlind flags opponents nearly as often as they checkmate them. The queen is the favorite checking piece, and when AnonBlind delivers the first check of the game, the win rate jumps to 67.32%.
There is also a quiet superpower hiding in plain sight: rapid chess. The career rapid record is an absurd 45-4-2, with a strength-adjusted win rate north of 85% and a peak of 2208 (2026-09-30), reached on the very same evening as the blitz peak. Whoever scheduled that session deserves a raise.
Repertoire: d4, d4, and One Science Experiment
In 2026, AnonBlind opened with 1.d4 in 244 games. The signature dish is the London System Poisoned Pawn Variation, a line with 55 blitz games and counting, while the Amazon Attack Siberian Attack supplies the backup aggression. The Colle Rhamphorhynchus Variation, named after a pterodactyl, chews through bullet opponents at about a 60% clip. Once, exactly once, AnonBlind tried 1.g4. Historians assume it was research.
With black, it is French Defense country: the Svenonius, the Exchange, the Advance, and the Guimard Thunderbunny Variation, which sounds ferocious but has a habit of biting AnonBlind harder than anyone else, sitting under 40% in blitz. The bullet antidote is the East Indian Defense, a perfect 9-0 on the black side of bullet play.
Style: The Comeback Machine
The numbers describe a player who refuses to acknowledge a lost position. Games reach the endgame 86.83% of the time and average about 85 moves, because finishing quickly is for people in a hurry. The comeback rate is 88.35%, and even after giving up a full piece, AnonBlind still wins 57.76% of the time. Dropping material against this account is a donation, not a tactic.
There is dignity too: only 0.72% of games end as one-sided losses, and an early resignation rate of 36% shows a clean sense of when the towel should fly. A tilt factor of 5 out of 10 keeps things reassuringly human.
Rivals and Pigeons
confidentchopsticks is the chief rival, locked at 3-3 in a series apparently decided by whoever blinks at move 80. igarami10 has met AnonBlind four times and lost four times, earning official pigeon status. UAstrong belongs to the rare club of opponents with a winning head-to-head record at 2-1. The names of everyone else who holds a positive score over AnonBlind will remain as anonymous as AnonBlind's face.
Quick Facts
- Best hour to play: 7 AM, with a 68.75% win rate. At 5 AM the win rate collapses to 37.5%, proof that 5 AM is for sleeping.
- Best day of the week: Wednesday at 66.67%. Tuesdays are the problem child.
- Longest winning streak: 15 games. Longest losing streak: just 5.
- 93 wins by checkmate, 231 by resignation, and 148 by timeout. The clock has more kills than the king hunt.
- 4 career stalemate draws, for the aesthetes.
- Roughly a 70% win rate against lower-rated opposition but about 33% against higher-rated players. Giant slaying remains on the to-do list.