chakichan: The Bullet Chess Loyalist
Some players study chess. Some players suffer chess. chakichan, grinding away on the online chess scene since early 2019, has done both, logging nearly 7,000 rated games across bullet, blitz, rapid, and daily chess. The preferred habitat is bullet, and chakichan has played more than 2,000 bullet games, treating the one-minute format like a beloved, mildly abusive pet.
The climb has been real. chakichan's blitz rating dipped as low as 519 in early 2019 before a relentless march upward to a peak of 1654 (2024-08-22) in August 2024. Even better, the rapid rating crossed the mythical 2000 barrier in January 2024, peaking at 2002 (2024-01-12) and earning lifetime membership in the rapid 2000 club.
Opening Repertoire: Caro-Kann, the English, and One Very Brave Gambit
The backbone of everything is the Caro-Kann Defense, played over 1,200 times across all time controls with winning records in both blitz and rapid. With the white pieces, chakichan is a devoted English Opening player, and the Carls-Bremen System in particular has been a rapid workhorse, winning 56.91% of 123 games.
Then there is the Amar Gambit. chakichan has played it with white and, when opponents return the favor, faced it as black too, winning nearly 60% of those blitz encounters. The opening goes like this:
Knight out on move one, three pawn moves in a row, and a generous donation of tempi to the opponent, all purely for the crime of entertainment. The Blackburne Shilling Gambit has appeared in more than 90 games, sometimes played and sometimes endured, coming out almost exactly even either way. The Australian Defense rounds out a repertoire that reads less like opening theory and more like a dare.
The donwhitenoise Saga: 394 Games, One Win
No chess biography of chakichan would be complete, or even honest, without addressing donwhitenoise. These two have played 394 games. The head-to-head score: chakichan 1, donwhitenoise 391, with 2 draws offering occasional mercy. Somewhere in that mountain of defeats sits a single, shimmering victory that surely deserves a trophy, a parade, and a national holiday.
It gets better, or worse. borocotoajua has beaten chakichan 68 times in 70 meetings without ever losing. Yet chess is a game of contrasts: against rafa828 chakichan fights to a standstill over 66 hard-fought games (28 wins, 18 losses, 20 draws), while theemegalodon (9-1), thewelshi (8-1-2), and lbrett2007 (6-0-2) have all learned what the business end of this repertoire feels like.
Playing Style: Never Resign, Always Counterattack
chakichan does not do surrender. The early resignation rate is a minuscule 5.08%, and the comeback rate is a heroic 78%, meaning most lost-looking positions are treated as suggestions rather than verdicts. Only 8.08% of losses are one-sided blowouts. Wins are earned the long way: the average chakichan victory lasts 61 moves versus 53 in defeats, and more than half of all games waddle into the endgame, where patience does the killing.
The streak data might be the most chakichan thing of all. There has been a 34-game losing streak. There has also been a 14-game winning streak, and an 8-game heater was still running in the most recent games. The wheel keeps turning, and chakichan keeps pushing it.
The 5 AM Advantage
The clock matters as much as the clock time control. chakichan's most lethal hour is 05:00, where the win rate soars to 60.75%, making the pre-dawn lobby a genuinely dangerous place. The 4 PM hour, at 39.93%, is best avoided entirely. The tilt factor is a manageable 34, and there is a revealing 38% performance gap in favor of rated games, proof that chakichan is sharpest when points are actually on the line.
A Bullet Chess Love Story
Bullet is the great love and the great heartbreak. Across 2,057 bullet games the record reads 817 wins against 1,214 losses, with a peak of 1346 (2022-12-01) back in December 2022. The chart below traces a relationship with more ups and downs than a rook on an open file, and like all true love stories, it refuses to end.
chakichan Quick Facts
- 6,815 rated games played and counting, with over 14,500 checks delivered along the way.
- Signature openings: the Caro-Kann Defense and the English Opening, plus 400-plus Amar Gambit appearances for the vibes.
- Favorite checking piece: the queen, brandished over 5,100 times.
- Peak ratings: 2002 rapid, 1654 blitz, 1346 bullet, 1187 daily.
- Best hour to play: 05:00. Worst: 16:00. Plan accordingly.
- Streak extremes: 14 straight wins, 34 straight losses, 8 straight wins most recently.
- Most faced opponent in online chess history: donwhitenoise, 394 times, one unforgettable win.