Caio da Fonseca Lampoglia

The Long Game Begins

Every online chess grinder has an origin story, and Caio da Fonseca Lampoglia, known to the leaderboard as CLampoglia, has one of the strangest. His first recorded blitz chess games appeared in November 2011 at a rating of 994, after which he promptly disappeared for six years. Whether he was honing his craft away from the board or simply forgetting his password, history does not record. What history does record is his return in August 2018 and the slowest, most patient climb this side of continental drift: fifteen years of play that carried him from beginner tables all the way to a peak blitz rating of 2372 (2026-09-14).

A Style Built on Refusing to Lose

Caio's career blitz ledger reads like a phone book: 21,152 wins, 20,758 losses, and 2,526 draws across more than 44,000 games. But the raw totals undersell the absurdity. His victories average 78 moves; his defeats only 69. In other words, when Caio starts losing, the game gets longer, not shorter. His early resignation rate barely clears 1%, his one-sided loss rate sits at a microscopic 2.21%, and his comeback rate of 86.48% means that dropping a piece is, for him, merely a change of scenery. Even after losing material he still wins 46% of the time, and with an endgame appearing in 77% of his games, he is less a blitz player and more a carbon-based tablebase with a grudge.

The Alekhine Devotee

As Black, Caio is loyal to a fault: the Alekhine Defense appears in his games more than 7,700 times, a provocative choice that invites White to build a big center just so he can spend sixty moves knocking it down. As White, he opens 1.e4 by reflex and meets the Sicilian with the Alapin Variation, while facing the Caro-Kann Defense over 2,000 times with a steady winning rate. The queen is his favorite checking piece by a landslide, because apparently even his pieces believe in making a dramatic entrance.

Frenemies and Nemeses

No biography of CLampoglia is complete without kenzie110219, his most frequently faced opponent at 59 games and a lopsided 17-37-5 record that suggests Caio keeps returning either out of hope or hostage syndrome. Against reychesscuba, however, the script flips: 27 wins against 21 losses, proof that Caio can absolutely beat his rivals, provided they are not named kenzie. His longest winning streak of 14 games and longest losing streak of 15 confirm he has experienced the entire emotional spectrum, occasionally within the same afternoon.

By the Numbers

• Peak bullet rating: 2211, reached in December 2025
• Best hour to face him: never. His 7:00 AM win rate hits 50%, while 6:00 AM dips to 41%, making him dangerously effective after exactly one coffee
• Tilt factor: a calm 15, roughly the emotional profile of a sloth in a hammock
• Career rapid rating: 1169 across two games, a number that looks like a typo next to his blitz peak and frankly may be his favorite secret
• Daily chess record: one game, one loss, in 2011. He has never spoken of it since
• Stalemates delivered or endured: 8, each one presumably accompanied by a long stare at the ceiling

The Verdict

Caio da Fonseca Lampoglia is what happens when someone decides that talent is optional and attendance is mandatory. He does not crush opponents quickly, he does not resign early, and he does not stop playing, ever. If you find yourself up a piece against him at move 30, do not celebrate. Settle in. You are going to be there a while.