Ayan Allahverdiyeva
The Player Behind the Username
Ayan Allahverdiyeva, better known to the online chess world as chessmachine14, is a Woman International Master who treats the clock as a suggestion rather than a rule. She is a bullet and blitz specialist with thousands of games under her belt, a mountain of queen checks, and a reputation for never giving up. If there is a position to be won, she will find it. If there is a position to be lost, she will fight it anyway.
Career Trajectory
Allahverdiyeva began her journey in 2019 at a solid club level and spent years fine tuning the machine. By mid 2019 she had already reached 2059 in blitz and 2238 in rapid, but the real explosion came in 2024 and 2025. Her blitz rating vaulted past 2400 and peaked at 2598 (2025-09-05) in September 2025, while her bullet rating climbed to 2291 (2025-09-01) at the start of the same month. That stretch included 105 bullet wins and a fearless approach to time scrambles that made her one of the more dangerous players on the board.
The trajectory shows a player who refuses to plateau. She ended 2026 near her all time best with a 2554 blitz rating, and she did it while reinventing her opening repertoire on the fly. The 2026 season saw her shift dramatically from a lifelong love of 1.e4 toward 1.d4, a sign that the machine keeps upgrading its own software.
Signature Openings
Ask about her favorite opening and the answer is almost certainly the Sicilian Defense. Her blitz record is built on this razor sharp complex, especially the Najdorf Variation, which she has played more than a hundred times with mixed but always entertaining results. As White she leans on the Caro-Kann Defense and the French Defense, two solid structures that suit a fighter with a serious appetite for endgames.
- In bullet, her French Defense is a weapon of choice with a 75 percent win rate over 12 games.
- Her bullet record with the Sicilian Defense is a perfect 7 wins in 7 games.
- The Czech Defense also suits her, with a 66.67 percent bullet win rate.
A Fighter's Mentality
The numbers paint her as a resilient competitor with a shockingly low early resignation rate of 1.25 percent. She reaches the endgame in 82.75 percent of her games and averages 73 moves in her wins and 79 moves in her losses. When she loses a piece, she still wins 41.13 percent of the time, and her comeback rate of 86.94 percent suggests her internal engine only has two settings: attack and attack again.
- Longest winning streak: 18 games.
- Longest losing streak: 16 games, which she simply shrugged off.
- Most productive time of day: 05:00, when the rest of the world is asleep and the machine is fully charged.
- She delivers the first check 53.94 percent of the time, and when she does, her win rate jumps to 48.08 percent.
Rivalries
No biography of chessmachine14 would be complete without the rivalries that shaped her. Against Kostyantyn Petriv, she has scored 11 wins in 18 meetings and clearly owns the head to head. benceee6 has also felt her sting, with nine wins for Allahverdiyeva. Then there is Azer Mirzoev, the one opponent who seems to have her number, leading the series 11 wins to 2. Every great chess fighter has a nemesis, and azikom fills that role perfectly. The rivalry is far from over.