Mikelis Vingris (briesmas): FIDE Master, Bullet Assassin
Mikelis Vingris, known to the online chess world as briesmas, is a FIDE Master who has embraced the beautiful chaos of bullet chess. Armed with a title, a mouse, and a suspicious lack of mercy, he has stacked up more than 1,600 bullet games and a peak rating of 2754 (2025-10-02). Some players study chess. Vingris clicks it.
The Climb From Four Digits to Fever Pitch
Vingris surfaced on the site in 2019 as a modest four-digit bullet player. Then 2024 happened, the volume dial snapped off, and the rating graph discovered ambition. The peak of the madness came in September 2025, when he played 630 bullet games in a single month, roughly the schedule of a man who has seen the sun only as a screen artifact. By early October 2025 the bullet rating touched 2754, with a blitz peak of 2710 parked right behind it.
Style: Never Resign, Rarely Blink
- Early resignation rate: 0.5%. He resigns roughly once every 200 games, and only after exhausting every appeal.
- Comeback rate near 89%. Drop a piece against briesmas and you have not won; you have simply started the game.
- Endgame frequency: 88%. His wins average 82 moves, his losses 94. He will out-walk you to the fifty-move rule if necessary.
- A tilt factor of 8. Suspiciously serene for a man playing one-minute chess.
- Dawn raider. His best hour is 06:00, where the win rate soars past 70%. Do not challenge briesmas at sunrise.
- Longest winning streak: 13 games. That is a full work week of not losing.
Openings: The Sicilian Is the Family Business
As Black, the Sicilian Defense is the weapon of choice, winning about 65% of his bullet games, with the Najdorf Variation as the flagship he fights to a standstill against everyone. As White, he feasts on the Caro-Kann Defense at a 57% clip and punishes the Barnes Defense at over 70%. And for reasons known only to him, the oddball Amar Gambit keeps showing up among his most-played bullet openings, and he keeps winning with it. Fearless, or possibly uninformable.
Rivalries and Nemesis Files
- tadejlogar: 10-3. A reliable customer.
- Mike Ellenbogen: 10-7 across 17 games. A genuine duel, the kind bullet needs more of.
- Janis Vingris: 9-3, and yes, that shared surname suggests a relative. The family group chat must be spicy.
- Sergejs Klimakovs: 2-11-4. The certified nemesis. Some mountains are climbed; this one throws rocks.
- PracticeMakesOK: 2-11. Proof that the username describes the opponent, because practice clearly did not make Vingris merely ok.
Legacy
FM Mikelis Vingris is living proof that bullet chess is a real discipline: part reflex, part stubbornness, part refusal to acknowledge that a lost position exists. With a near-total ban on early resignation, an endgame in almost every game, and a queen that checks more often than a parking inspector, briesmas has carved out his lane. The online chess scene has been warned, preferably not at 6 a.m.