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Cervantes Landeiro Thalia WGM

Username: DishonorOnYourCow

Playing Since: 2016-12-02 (Active)

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Daily: 1874
4W / 0L / 1D
Rapid: 2248
19W / 12L / 10D
Blitz: 2418
1132W / 1118L / 170D
Bullet: 2581
2485W / 2306L / 288D

Cervantes Landeiro Thalia

Woman Grandmaster (WGM) | Tactical Maestro

Meet Cervantes Landeiro Thalia, a fierce force on the 64 squares and a proud bearer of the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title bestowed by FIDE. With a sharp mind and an even sharper wit, Thalia has evolved from a humble pawn into a queen of the chessboard — all while avoiding too many check-mitoses and stalem-ates along the way!

Career Highlights & Playing Style

  • Known for an extraordinary 87.35% comeback rate, proving that even when life takes a piece away, her spirit and strategy regenerate with quantum precision.
  • Her games often blossom in the endgame, with an impressive 80.48% endgame frequency, demonstrating a penchant for patiently nursing dying pawns into checkmating champions.
  • An average of 74 moves per win indicates Thalia’s games are less like quick bacterial splits and more like carefully orchestrated cellular symphonies.
  • White squares or black, Thalia manages respectable win rates: 50.83% with White and 44.99% with Black—always keeping opponents on their toes.

Rating Evolution & Formats

Since 2017, Thalia’s rating journey has been as dynamic and intricate as a spiral galaxy:

  • Rapid Chess: Peaked at 2251 ELO with steady growth and gritty persistence.
  • Blitz Chess: Roared to a peak of 2603 in recent years, showing her lightning-fast tactical reflexes (no wonder her opponents sometimes get ionized by surprise attacks!).
  • Bullet Chess: Surges brilliantly with a max rating over 2643, reflecting a nervous system firing at multiple synaptic connections per second—processing countless positions in mere moments.
  • Daily Chess: Her patience pays off with solid results and a near-perfect unbeaten streak in rated games.

Psychological and Tactical Edge

Thalia’s chess brain is finely tuned:

  • With a low early resignation rate (~4.1%), she’s not a quitter even under intense evolutionary pressure.
  • Her win rate after losing a piece stands at an astounding 96.54%, standing as a testament to her remarkable regenerative tactics and fighting spirit.
  • Although a moderate tilt factor at 12, she has learned to keep her neurons firing cleanly during tough battles.

Fun Facts & Puns

Thalia’s longest winning streak is an impressive 19 games—a streak so powerful it could almost be mistaken for mitosis in real time. Whether emerging from the chaos of the opening or carefully entangling foes like a neural network in the midgame, she keeps her opponents in a perpetual state of chess-osmosis.

Always ready to pawn off threats and capture victories, Cervantes Landeiro Thalia embodies the perfect fusion of biology and strategy—because in her world, every move is a cell-f move!


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Feedback for Cervantes Landeiro Thalia

Thalia, you've shown a lot of fighting spirit and creativity in your recent games. Here are some specific points to help you improve even further:

  • Opening Choices and Understanding: You often choose aggressive lines with early pawn pushes and piece activity, which can lead to dynamic play. However, some of your openings, such as the early 2.b4 in the Queen’s Pawn opening, expose you to quick counterattacks. Try focusing on solid opening principles like rapid development and king safety before launching attacks.
  • Time Management: You tend to spend considerable time in early moves but occasionally rush later, leading to missed tactical opportunities or mistakes. Practicing time allocation per phase of the game could help you maintain better consistency throughout your games.
  • Calculations and Tactical Awareness: In your wins, you capitalize well on opponent’s inaccuracies and tactical chances. Continue practicing tactical motifs regularly to enhance your spotting of opportunities and avoid falling into traps.
  • Endgame Technique: You have good technique converting advantages in many games, but there are moments where you could increase your precision, particularly with king activity and pawn structure. Studying endgame fundamentals can help improve your confidence in these phases.

Positive Highlights:

  • Your attacking instincts are strong, and you’re not afraid to take risks to seize the initiative.
  • Good ability to exploit the opponent’s mistakes, often converting small advantages decisively.
  • Solid handling of complex positions in the middlegame, showing good pattern recognition.

Suggestions for Improvement:

  • Review your opening repertoire to include some safer, more fundamental options that focus on development.
  • Work on managing your clock more evenly, ensuring you have enough time to evaluate critical moments.
  • Practice tactical drills daily using puzzles that challenge your calculation speed and accuracy.
  • Study classic endgame positions involving king and pawn endings, rook endings, and minor piece endgames.
  • Analyze your recent losses to spot recurring strategic or tactical weaknesses and address them methodically.

Keep up the hard work and enjoy your progress! Your peak performance level is impressive, and with focused training, you’ll continue climbing higher.



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Rating

Year Bullet Blitz Rapid Daily
2025 2599 2475
2024 2505
2023 2631 2565 2248
2022 2571 2513 2248 1874
2021 2569 2469 2155 1870
2020 2432 2434 2048
2019 2197 2270 2172
2018 2300 2237 2110 1856
2017 2251 2196 1799
2016 1457
Rating by Year201620172018201920202021202220232024202526311457YearRatingBulletBlitzRapidDaily

Stats by Year

Year White Black Moves
2025 13W / 5L / 3D 8W / 16L / 2D 84.0
2024 48W / 43L / 13D 37W / 59L / 5D 85.1
2023 102W / 102L / 13D 96W / 109L / 19D 85.3
2022 34W / 16L / 6D 17W / 25L / 7D 90.1
2021 239W / 164L / 28D 201W / 189L / 40D 90.1
2020 327W / 318L / 47D 288W / 341L / 34D 74.4
2019 502W / 439L / 85D 445W / 509L / 52D 81.4
2018 402W / 372L / 39D 359W / 423L / 37D 79.0
2017 440W / 302L / 35D 384W / 349L / 36D 74.4
2016 19W / 23L / 0D 18W / 20L / 0D 0.0

Openings: Most Played

Blitz Opening Games Wins Losses Draws Win Rate
Unknown 271 139 130 2 51.3%
King's Indian Defense: Four Pawns Attack 134 74 53 7 55.2%
Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation 132 65 62 5 49.2%
Sicilian Defense 82 40 37 5 48.8%
London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation 82 45 26 11 54.9%
Gruenfeld: Exchange Variation 80 32 40 8 40.0%
Australian Defense 75 42 26 7 56.0%
Amazon Attack: Siberian Attack 56 23 29 4 41.1%
Sicilian Defense: Closed 54 23 29 2 42.6%
QGD: 3.Nc3 Bb4 52 26 23 3 50.0%
Bullet Opening Games Wins Losses Draws Win Rate
Australian Defense 364 195 145 24 53.6%
Amar Gambit 318 140 167 11 44.0%
London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation 280 119 145 16 42.5%
Benoni Defense: Benoni Gambit Accepted 174 93 73 8 53.5%
Sicilian Defense 168 92 73 3 54.8%
Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation 152 79 66 7 52.0%
Amazon Attack 150 77 68 5 51.3%
King's Indian Defense: Four Pawns Attack 144 67 67 10 46.5%
Amazon Attack: Siberian Attack 130 73 54 3 56.1%
Sicilian Defense: Closed 123 59 60 4 48.0%

🔥 Streaks

Streak Longest Current
Winning 19 0
Losing 12 1
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