Daniel Centron Antuna FM

The Origin Story

Daniel Centron Antuna, known on the leaderboard as Dacean99, is a FIDE Master whose online career began in September 2017 with exactly one blitz game. He won it, logged off, and vanished for three months like a man checking whether chess would miss him. It did. He returned that December and never really left: more than 3,500 rated games later, his blitz peak sits at 2715 (2023-11-14) and his bullet peak at 2695.

The grind years were real. In June 2021 he played 197 blitz games, then added 216 more in July. Somewhere inside that avalanche he stacked a 21-game winning streak, and the wins kept coming long after the caffeine should have worn off.

Rapid Is the Preferred Weapon

Ask Daniel for a game and he will steer you toward Rapid, his preferred time control. The results back the taste: 50 wins against 14 losses and 7 draws, with a peak of 2303 (2024-06-06). The twist is that Rapid is also his quietest arena. Blitz holds over 2,300 games with 1,179 wins, bullet holds over 1,100 with 642 wins, and his bullet debut in March 2018 was a 20-1 sprint. Daily chess exists too, at a tidy 8-1, for when even ten minutes feels rushed.

The Opening Repertoire

As White, the Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation is the workhorse: 175 blitz games, a 55 percent win rate, and a polite little c3 that ruins Sicilian dreams. Against the French Defense he wins about 60 percent of his blitz games, and when he wants chaos with a dramatic name he rolls out the Amazon Attack: Siberian Attack, an opening that sounds like a wrestling pay-per-view and wins like one. In bullet, players who try the Alekhine Defense against him lose more than 80 percent of the time.

As Black, he trusts the Czech Defense and the Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation. In Rapid he keeps two party tricks: a 3-0 record with the Dutch Defense and a perfect 4-0 answer to the Blackburne Shilling Gambit, because falling for a shilling is for other people.

Familiar Faces and One Nemesis

javier is his most frequent sparring partner: 47 meetings and an honest 27-20 score, a genuine fight. elmundoderm_on_youtbr has met him 35 times and emerged with 33 losses, 1 win and 1 draw, which is less a rivalry and more a subscription service. Rogelio Jr Antonio plays the designated nemesis, leading their series 19 to 7, the account that keeps the ego refrigerated. And against akshay-dubey he is a flawless 18-0, the kind of record that makes statisticians suspicious and Daniel very calm.

The 5 AM Menace

The hour-by-hour data is the best part. Daniel's win rate peaks at 5 AM with a monstrous 77.78 percent, while 2 AM and 4 AM also sit above 70. His 8 PM games, meanwhile, sink under 44 percent. The conclusion is unavoidable: he is neither night owl nor early bird but a pre-dawn predator whose circadian rhythm is set to checkmate. Tuesday is his strongest day, Sunday his weakest, and his tilt factor is a glacial 10, so bad positions do not rattle him, they merely inconvenience him.

He is also a certified comeback artist. Nearly 87 percent of his games feature a comeback effort, and he still wins half of the games where he drops a piece. Endgames arrive in 82.7 percent of his games, wins average 78 moves and losses 90, so when he loses, he loses slowly and on his own terms. Best of all: across 3,573 analyzed games he has delivered 10,915 checks and zero recorded checkmates, because opponents resign long before he gets the satisfaction. His favorite tool of harassment is the queen, with 3,600 checks and counting.

Quick Facts

• Title: FIDE Master
• Preferred time control: Rapid
• Longest winning streak: 21 games
• Comeback rate: 86.85 percent
• Games that reach an endgame: 82.7 percent
• Most frequent checking piece: the queen

Final advice: if Dacean99 challenges you to a Rapid game at 5 AM on a Tuesday with the Alapin prepped, decline politely and go back to sleep.