Who Is Disguised_Teriyaki?
Somewhere between a stealth bomber and a well-marinated chicken thigh sits Disguised_Teriyaki, a chess account that has been quietly (and then not quietly at all) grinding online since 2015. The disguise, whatever it is, is not working: anyone who has faced this player in the Scandinavian Defense knows the sauce is coming, and it is coming fast.
This is a player who treats the clock as a suggestion, the board as a canvas, and the queen check as a love language. Most profiles reveal a personality through their games. This one reveals it through the fact that they have played nearly twenty thousand blitz games and still cannot decide whether they are winning or losing them.
Five Years of Silence, Then a Blender
The account's first recorded activity is a handful of blitz games in 2015, after which it vanished for about five years, presumably to study openings, or to forget chess entirely, or both. It returned in December 2020 and then, in 2021, simply detonated: hundreds of games per month, then over a thousand in February 2021 alone. Two thousand plus games in 2021 turned into a lifelong habit of playing chess the way other people scroll.
The long climb has its own drama. Watch the bumps, the plateaus, the sudden sprints, and the odd freefall in this rating history:
The summit arrived in fine style: a peak blitz rating of 2525 (2025-11-23) in November 2025, and a rapid peak of 2432 (2026-01-15) in January 2026, proving that the fast stuff and the medium-fast stuff are both within reach.
The Weapons: Scandinavian, Australian, and Chaos
Ask what Disguised_Teriyaki plays and the honest answer is "the Scandinavian Defense." Over 2,700 blitz games and more than 4,100 bullet games have started with the Scandinavian, which suggests a genuine philosophical commitment to putting the queen on d5 early and seeing what happens. The results are respectable too, hovering near 51 percent in both formats, which is more than most players can say about an opening they picked up on a whim.
The second weapon is stranger: the Australian Defense, with over 1,600 blitz games and 2,600 bullet games. Back that up with heavy doses of the French Defense, the Caro-Kann, the Czech Defense, the Barnes Defense, and a genuine fondness for gambit territory, and you get a player who treats theory as a starting point for an argument rather than a script. What it looks like in aggregate:
A Very Busy Rivalry
No profile of this account is complete without the paulleon series, a 197-game epic that stands at 102 wins, 94 losses, and one lonely draw. It is the kind of rivalry where both players know exactly which fork is coming and play into it anyway. Similar running battles exist with epib123, where the record is a healthier 58 to 19, and with m-sa77, octy06090, and rosewoodtele, all of whom have seen the Scandinavian more times than anyone should.
If you want a taste of the house style, a representative Scandinavian goes like this:
The Numbers, Translated Into Behaviour
Beneath the blitz volume is a genuinely interesting statistical fingerprint. Consider:
- Across more than 39,000 analysed games, this player delivers about 2.76 checks per game while receiving only 1.82. The most common culprit is the queen, with nearly 38,500 queen checks on record.
- The win rate after first landing a check sits around 54 percent, and dropping the first check to an opponent drops it to about 39 percent. Aggression is not a strategy here, it is a personality trait.
- Endgames appear in roughly 64 percent of games, so the "just trade everything and outplay them" crowd gets plenty of work.
- The longest winning streak reached 24 games. The longest losing streak reached 22. Balance, of a sort.
- Time management is a work in progress: 1,043 losses on time versus 224 wins on time.
- The best hour to play is apparently 09:00, and the tilt factor sits at a modest 22, meaning the account generally resists the urge to go down with the ship in flames.
- Against lower-rated opposition the win rate is a merciless 75 percent. Against higher-rated opposition it is 29 percent. The rating ladder, it turns out, is a ladder.
The comeback rate is a remarkable 89.93 percent, so giving up early is not the house style, despite an early resignation rate of just over one percent. Opponents who smell blood should keep playing; opponents who think a material edge is enough should look at the clock.
Daily Games and the Quiet Life
Amid the blitz avalanche sits a small, spotless corner of the account: the daily arena, which is the format this player seems to favour when there is no clock screaming at them. Thirty-six daily games have produced 32 wins, 2 losses, and 2 draws, a record that includes a perfect run in the Scandinavian and clean sweeps in the Sicilian and the Australian Defense. The strength-adjusted daily win rate of about 78 percent is easily the best number on the board.
So the legend writes itself: fast, loud, checking everything, occasionally losing on time, and yet quietly unbeatable when given a day to think. Disguised_Teriyaki remains disguised mainly because nobody can quite believe the same account is responsible for all of it.