Overview
Leszek Filipiak — known online as doktorlech83 — is a relentless Bullet specialist and one of the most active tactical players on the server. Between 2020 and 2025 he amassed an enormous volume of games, developing a compact, aggressive style that punishes tiny inaccuracies in blitz and bullet arenas.
Profile: Leszek Filipiak
Highlight: big experience in Bullet, fearless opening choices, and a remarkable comeback instinct.
Playing style
Fast, opportunistic, and stubbornly tactical. Leszek often converts small advantages into full points under severe time pressure and has a habit of complicating positions to leverage his speed and pattern recognition.
- Preferred time control: Bullet
- High comeback rate and strong performance after material loss
- Average decisive game length: ~51 moves — decisive but not reckless
- Rare early resignations; fights in messy endgames
Career highlights
- Huge game totals in Bullet and Blitz; tens of thousands of Bullet games overall.
- Long winning streaks (longest: 74 wins) and several peak months in 2024–2025.
- Best hours: late night and early morning — opponents beware at 02:00.
Openings & repertoire
Leszek favors flexible and tension-rich systems. His repertoire emphasizes the English Opening (King's English Variations), Alapin lines against the Sicilian, and dynamic Benoni setups.
- English Opening — King's English Variation (frequent, very successful). English Opening
- Sicilian Defense — Alapin and Sherzer lines for sharp counterplay. Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation
- Benoni Gambit Accepted and French Defense for asymmetric middlegames. Benoni Defense French Defense
Sample game
Short, coherent Bullet-style miniatures are his specialty. Replay a typical opening scramble (autoplay off):
Fun facts & habits
- Username: doktorlech83 — a handle opponents learn quickly to respect.
- Frequently experiments with offbeat gambits just to spice up Bullet duels.
- Tilt factor is moderate; overall resilience is high.
- Enjoys long streaks of focused play — and occasionally tweets at his mouse pad when a tactic fizzles.