Kritin

Overview

Kritin — known online as ChesseroniPizza18 — is an energetic, bullet-first chess grinder who rose from casual weekend blitzer to a feared online tactician. Active since 2019, Kritin is best described as a high-volume, high-variance player: relentless in fast time controls, fond of cheeky gambits, and capable of marathon sessions that end with either a brilliant win or a pizza-fueled blunder.

• Primary identity: Kritin / ChesseroniPizza18
• Preferred time control: Bullet (aggressive, tactical, and fast)
• Active online since: 2019 — prolific across Bullet and Blitz

Playing Style & Strengths

Kritin is a tactician at heart. Games are often decided early by sharp opening choices and midgame complications. Opponents report sudden, vicious attacks — and an uncanny ability to recover from material deficits.

• Strengths: lightning tactics, comeback ability (remarkable ~77% comeback rate), and fast calculation under time pressure.
• Endgame habits: typically long endgames — Kritin plays deep and rarely resigns early (endgame frequency is high).
• Psychology: a bit tilt-prone on long losing streaks, but bounces back quickly.

Openings & Favorite Tricks

Kritin mixes classical responses with offbeat surprise weapons. The Sicilian and French appear often — but expect the occasional Amar Gambit or Barnes Defense if you're not paying attention.

• Frequently used: Sicilian Defense, French Defense, and the Amar Gambit.
• Favorite trick: traps in the Blackburne Shilling Gambit (used successfully in many fast games).
• Versatility: comfortable shifting between aggressive and positional lines depending on the clock.

Career Highlights

Kritin has logged enormous playtime and several explosive rating moments in fast formats. A few highlights below give a sense of the trajectory and peak performances.

• Peak Blitz achievement: 2618 (2025-07-18) — a testament to ferocious tactical strength in short games.
• Peak Bullet achievement: 2521 (2025-08-05) — the control-board equivalent of a mic-drop.
• Remarkable comeback instincts: regularly turns lost positions into wins or draws — a trait opponents dread.

For a quick visual of Bullet progress over recent years:

Memorable Game (sample)

A typical Kritin mini-spectacle: sharp opening, quick tactics, and a final flourish. Replay a short extract below.

Notable Opponents & Rivalries

Kritin has faced the same handful of opponents repeatedly — rivalries forged in dozens or hundreds of rapid-fire games.

• Top rival (most-played): Vishva Nanugonda — their history reads like a fast-paced soap opera of wins, losses, and dramatic comebacks.
• Other frequent opponents include: classicalplayer1111 and ratkovic_miloje — long-term online rivalries that sharpened Kritin’s instincts.

Fun Facts & SEO-Friendly Snippets

Looking for "Kritin chess", "ChesseroniPizza18 bullet specialist", or "online chess openings"? Here are quick snippets to help:

• Nickname origin: ChesseroniPizza18 — yes, pizza is involved in the victory celebrations (or consolations).
• Stamina: once played an enormous session with hundreds of games in a single month — an endurance test and an SEO headline.
• Streaks: longest winning run was bold and cinematic; longest losing streak taught valuable lessons in humility.

Want to study Kritin’s aggressive opening play? Try exploring the Sicilian and Amar Gambit lines listed above: Sicilian Defense • Amar Gambit.