Meet Campo Elias Guzman
He signs in as campochess, and his FIDE badge says Candidate Master. But the numbers say something else as well: he is a marathon runner in a blitz world. Campo has been building his online chess archive since 2012, crossing into August 2025 with more than 6,000 games on chess platforms. He has strong preferences, a very specific set of opening loves, and enough stats to fill an endgame tablebase.
His profile says his preferred time control is Rapid, but his blitz clock has never been a wallflower. If you want to see the shape of the career, let this chart do the talking:
. The peaks and valleys are all part of the story, no need for a section just for ratings.The Opening Arsenal
Campo is never shy about stepping into sharp theory. His database reads like a love letter to the Sicilian Defense, from both sides of the board. He plays it as White, he plays it as Black, and he nearly always has an opinion about it. The Accelerated Dragon is one of his constant companions as Black, with hundreds of games in some variation of the Sicilian family.
As White, he also likes to throw opponents an Amazon Attack surprise. He has played it in over 300 blitz games, and his win rate with it has been close to 58%. That includes a quiet but persistent French, Barnes, and a few Benoni gambit complications.
A sample of the opening scenery can be seen here:
Rivalries and Record Books
If you look at his most frequent opponents, one name stands tall: afika_ngeselin. They have faced each other in 19 blitz games, with a hard-fought split, 8 wins for campochess, 11 for the other name, and not a single draw. There is no calm when those two meet, just a wall of move clocks and unanswered checkmates.
On the flip side, mauro vargas might spend a little extra time resting. Campo has a perfect 12-0 record against that rival, a score that reads like a collector's item.
What the Numbers Say
Campo Elias Guzman is not a player who will resign. He has a long winning streak of 18, and when things go sideways he keeps fighting with a ComebackRate of more than 84%. His meter? The best hours are around 10:00 in the morning, and weekends appear to be when he puts on a show, especially Sundays where his win rate sits above 60%.
- Longest winning streak: 18 games
- Longest losing streak: 14 games, he just gets back up
- White win rate: 53.6%, Black win rate: 50%
- Almost always enters or pushes into the endgame, and only resigns about 1.14% of games
A simple fact: at one point he reached 2271 (2024-06-26) in his favorite most-rapid sea of blitz. The Candidate Master title may be official, but the 6,000+ game archive is why people remember the name.