The Man Called Chess2smart
Saharsh Santosh is a National Master who plays like a patient reef shark. Under the handle Chess2smart, he has turned thousands of online games into a private school of endgame survival. While he can zip through fast formats, his natural habitat is Daily chess, where he can sit back and let the board marinate for a few days. His average winning game runs about 73 moves, which means every Daily invitation should come with a warning: bring a snack.
In blitz, the rating trail shows a steady ascent from ordinary club warrior to triple-digit scorcher:
. At his best he has touched 2769 (2026-07-07) in blitz, and even his Daily peak reaches 2541 (2026-06-18), so the stubbornness is not a repair shop, it is a weapon.The Sicilian Appetite
Saharsh orders from the Sicilian Menu more often than his own weekly special. The Sicilian Defense is the core of his battle plan: he presses the Najdorf, Accelerated Dragon, Four Knights, and the Closed Anti-Sveshnikov Kharlov-Kramnik lines with genuine familiarity. His Najdorf numbers are spooky: in blitz he scores 62% with it, and in rapid he still holds 52%. But he is not a one-man band. He has deep respect for the Caro-Kann Defense as a wall, and in bullet he converts it with a 66% win rate, even a perfect 100% in the Exchange Variation. If the opponent refuses to play him in the Sicilian, he probably finds another Sicilian line to suggest.
Off the beaten track he is strictly a menace with flavour. The Amar Gambit greases his Daily wheels at 72.7% wins, and the Colle-Rhamphorhynchus line shows up like a ghost in all time controls. Nothing says "smart" and "2 smart" quite like opening with a rejected gambit and still winning.
The Never Give Up Policy
Chess2smart does not resign early; his early resignation rate is 1.71%, and his comeback rate is 83.83%. Down a piece? Fine, he still wins 49.7% of those games. Endgames are his shell: 72.9% of his blitz games reach the uptable, so the opponent must find a plan after the 40th hour. His tunneled animal has also created streaks of joy and despair: he has stretched out a 21-game win streak and, for balance, a 20-game losing streak. That yin and yang is exactly what makes him a believer in the same 64 squares.
Rivalries That Never Sleep
Every asteroid field knows his favorite rivals. Against Vishruth Yelisetti he has played 93 times and taken 72 of those points. watermelon1335 has spent 89 games with the person and still jumps when they see the daily notification. Bigninja123 also fills the list with 68 times; Saharsh took 52 of those games, a steady majority. These are the kind of rivalries that build staying memory, and they are not going away at the end of a sharp furrow.