Sasa Micic: The Sicilian Stamina Machine
Some chess players build a perfume line. Sasa Micic builds a wall of 27 thousand games, almost all of them starting with 1.e4 and almost all of them ending with a story. Under the username Cicmis, he has played enough chess to make the board its own retirement plan.
Openings Are the Love Language
Ask Sasa about his favorite opening and you will probably hear about the Sicilian Defense. He has played it more times than most people have played chess, and he has a special affection for the dangerous Najdorf Variation. He is also one of the few players who uses the Scandinavian Defense as much as his morning coffee, and if you let him get away with it, the Philidor Defense becomes his favorite snack.
In Daily games, his love for eccentric lines shines: a career 88% win rate against the Barnes Defense makes you wonder whether his opponents accidentally started with a wrong move. But hey, a win is a win.
Even the classic board viewers can see his favorite opening pattern: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6.
A Decade of Silent Chaos
From the touch of 2016 to today, Sasa Cicmis has played in nearly all online arenas, but his true home is Daily. The preferred time control fits a person who plans entire week-long opening schedules and still manages to squeeze in a bullet game at 3 AM. His Blitz record is also impressive, with a peak blitz rating of 2221 (2025-08-25) according to the platform. The graph below shows the climb, the dips, and the inevitable climb again.
Rivalries Worth Watching
No opponent has caused more repeated phone notifications than winginawolf06. They have faced each other 22 times, with Sasa holding a healthy 13-6-3 edge, but the wolf still comes back for more. Meanwhile, Anh Hao Nguyen uses as a tough opponent for Sasa, winning 15 games in their 21 battles. If Sasa ever puts 12dola on the wall, it will be the biggest poster in his chess basement.
Sasa also battles a set of familiar faces like cheezemaster45 and iliriku_pellazgjik, proving that even in the open ocean of anonymous chess, stubborn friendships are sealed over checkmates.
The Comeback Kid
Sasa has one of the most the stubborn En cause in all Da town: an 81.9 percent comeback rate. He does not fold after a lost piece; he simply reconfigures his game. He only loses in a one-sided way about 0.73 percent of the time, meaning most of his defeats are fought to the final pawn. When he gets into the endgame, he stays a long time, and he often turns a lost position into a breakaway win.
He is streaky in both ways, that has one 21-game win streak and one 15-game loss streak, but he never actually seems to stay down. The best time of day for his opponents to avoid him is 03:00 AM, perhaps because that the only hour when the force of chess trumps respect for sleep.
Totals from His Journey
In a career of more than 27,500 games, Sasa has played over 9,000 bullet games, over 13,000 blitz, and over 4,500 Daily, with a balanced sense of adventure. He liked the Sicilian Defense so much that his hardest hours almost always involve a 2... d6 or 2... Nc6. His most common opening performance shows exactly where he likes to hang out:
- Sicilian Defense: the whole family, with heavy focus on the Najdorf.
- Scandinavian Defense: because you wanted a queen a turned early.
- Philidor Defense: waits for you to overextend.
- And of course, the Barnes Defense: the classic underdog.
With a massive game sample, a stubborn win rate, and a daily love for chess, Sasa Micic is playing his own tournament, one place command.