ceto12: The Endless Caro-Kann Grinder
Most people play chess. ceto12 lives there. Since surfacing in March 2023 with a humble rapid rating near 960, ceto12 has played well over twenty thousand online games, treating the board less like a hobby and more like a mortgage. The preferred time control is blitz, and the results speak loudly: a peak blitz rating of 2361 (2026-10-23), earned in September 2026 after a climb that never really stopped.
The Rise of a Volume Player
The year-by-year blitz progression reads like a fitness transformation montage: roughly 1300 at the end of 2023, 1869 by the end of 2024, 2000 in 2025, and past 2200 in 2026. December 2024 alone featured over a thousand blitz games, which is less a training schedule and more a lifestyle choice. Rapid and bullet chess saw the same pattern, with the rapid peak hitting 2321 in July 2026 and bullet reaching 2290 the following month.
Openings: One True Defense
Ask ceto12 about opening repertoire and the answer arrives before you finish the question: the Caro-Kann Defense. It has been deployed over 1,500 times in blitz alone, supplemented by more than a thousand bullet appearances and a steady diet of the Caro-Kann Exchange Variation. As White, early years revolved around 1.e4 before a dramatic 2026 conversion to 1.d4, with the London Poisoned Pawn Variation and the cheeky Australian Defense making frequent appearances. The Blackburne Shilling Gambit also shows up, proving ceto12 enjoys a trap as much as the next person.
Style: The Comeback Machine
The numbers sketch a player who simply does not go away quietly. Nearly three out of four games reach an endgame, wins average around 79 moves while losses end near 65, and the comeback rate sits at a startling 82.84%. One-sided defeats happen less than four percent of the time, and early resignations are almost nonexistent. Add over four thousand wins by timeout and you get a clear picture: ceto12 will outlast you, outgrind you, or win on the clock while doing it.
Friendly Rivalries and Famous Enemies
meriana12 holds the unenviable title of most reliable point donor, dropping 130 of 138 meetings, with fufufifi close behind at 62 losses in 64 games. But life is not all victory laps. edo_quilpue and spintelist each hold eighteen wins over ceto12 with only eight in return, making them the periodic reminders that hubris is not an opening plan.
The 5 AM Secret
Here is the strangest stat in the file: ceto12's win rate at 5 in the morning is 77.78%, the best hour on the clock by a wide margin. Midnight sessions, by contrast, dip toward 46%. The tilt factor is a calm 12, Friday is the luckiest weekday, and casual games outperform rated ones by a notable margin, suggesting the only thing better than chess is chess without consequences.
Quick Facts
- Longest winning streak: 16 games
- Longest losing streak: 12 games, fully survived
- Most common checking piece overall: the queen, though the rook took over the job in recent years
- Daily chess record: 25 wins against just 2 losses
- Typical first capture happens around move 6, proof that development comes before greed