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!
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.
🆚 Opponent Insights
| Most Played Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| nissou-ach | 239W / 215L / 28D | View Games |
| Ray Robson | 74W / 150L / 0D | View Games |
| Devina Devagharan | 50W / 61L / 4D | View Games |
| tsaogheverytime | 32W / 44L / 12D | View Games |
| Koosha Jaferian | 19W / 51L / 4D | View Games |
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 |
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% |
| Daily Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| King's Indian Defense: Four Pawns Attack | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50.0% |
| Sicilian Defense | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| QGA: 3.Nf3 Bg4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Closed, Anti-Sveshnikov Variation, Kharlov-Kramnik Line | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Accelerated Dragon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Dutch Defense: Blackburne Variation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| QGD: 2...Bf5 3.cxd5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Amazon Attack: Siberian Attack | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Rapid Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 57.1% |
| Amazon Attack: Siberian Attack | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 33.3% |
| King's Indian Defense: Four Pawns Attack | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20.0% |
| Nimzo-Indian Defense: Normal Variation | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60.0% |
| QGD: Ragozin | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, Zagreb Variation | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 25.0% |
| Nimzo-Indian Defense: Rubinstein System | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 25.0% |
| QGD: 4.Nf3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 66.7% |
| Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Berlin Wall | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 33.3% |
| Nimzo-Indian Defense: Normal Variation, Classical Defense | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 66.7% |
🔥 Streaks
| Streak | Longest | Current |
|---|---|---|
| Winning | 19 | 0 |
| Losing | 12 | 1 |