Mystery in Initials
T M, the player behind the handle Chepakh, is a special kind of online chess creature: one with no first name, no fanfare, and no shortage of games. The stats tell a story less about titles and more about stamina. This is someone who simply never stops playing.
Bullet Is Home
The preferred habitat is bullet. The earliest recorded bullet games go back to 2013, and by 2025 the account has grown into a serious online force. With more than 26,000 analyzed games on the record, Chepakh has made volume a personality trait.
The rating path has been a jagged love letter to speed chess. The longest winning streak is 26 games, while the longest losing streak is 24 games, which means the player is willing to ride every wave the clock sends.
Opening Signatures
The repertoire is stubborn and distinct. As White, T M loves to steer the game into the English Opening with 1.c4 or a quiet 1.g3. As Black, the Scandinavian Defense appears more than any other line, and the data across thousands of games shows a real willingness to defend a loose center while the clock ticks.
There are also blasts of chaos. The Amar Gambit shows up in nearly every format, alongside lines such as the Diemer-Duhm Gambit and the playful Amazon Attack. Boring is not in the repertoire.
A Player, A Pattern, A Protector
T M is part. In twenty.One, "Bullet" and "Blitz" are practically two different sports. In bullet, the drawing rate is surprisingly low: over seventeen hundred draws in 20,000 games. This person goes for the win, follows the flag, and rarely accepts a quiet handshake.
After losing a piece, T M still wins about 44% of the time, and comebacks happen in more than 9 games out of 10. The average game also goes deep, often past move 90. It is not a style for quick sweepers; it is a style for the player who believes the clock might run out before the plan does.
Forever Opponents
Through those thousands of games, certain usernames become very familiar. no rival appears more often against Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi, a dance partner over 526 games, with the scorebook reading 134 wins, 369 losses, and 23 draws. Another repeat visitor is ZURAB AZMAIPARASHVILI, with over 900 games exchanged across bullet and blitz.
Online chess is often a crowd of strangers. T M has turned some of those strangers into recurring characters. in a queue of 26,000 games, that is not just a biography. That is a world in miniature.