The Grandmaster Behind Buffy7
Burak Firat is a FIDE Grandmaster who happily answers to the name Buffy7 online. The username may sound like a 90s I.T. job, but the chess is very now. He has played a mountain of rated games, mostly in territory where thinking is a luxury. He said to be bullet, though blitz is constant.
Here is the long view, complete with all the ups and downs typical of a Very Online Grandmaster:
If charts could sweat, the opening report would pour down the screen:
A Player Who Lives in Fast Time
His preferred appointment is bullet, and no data contradict that. In bullet he grew to 2873 (2022-03-12); in blitz he brushed the high slopes of 2900 territory. He knows what a streak feels like, in both directions.
- Longest winning streak: 18; the platform held.
- Longest losing streak: 19; the platform held anyway.
- Comeback rate: 89.06%. He wakes up when the position looks lost.
- Endgame frequency: 79.26%. He is also willing to play technical stuff at a speed where thinking is optional.
An Opening Appetite
The repertoire is unconventional yet recognizable. He is no stranger to the Caro-Kann Defense, the Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, or the Nimzo-Larsen Attack. These openings appear so often in his records that they become characters in his biography.
He has a special friendship with the account santoblue, who appears 441 times in the logs. That is a real one. The score was not beautiful, but the rematch button always was: Vahap Sanal. He has also tested the username hikaru, and the scoreboard there is a lesson in keeping the pride intact: Hikaru Nakamura.
Final Advance
Playing Buffy7 means you should embrace the unusual, the sharp, and the extremely optimistically timed. His best hours are at 06:00, so if you meet him at dawn, his data agrees. He may be all pacifist and quickly resign, but he is a master of fast and nod.