Player profile: donotreadit
donotreadit is an International Master with a FIDE title and a screen name that politely asks you to look the other way. The chess board disagrees. Over more than 3,000 rated games, they have built a career out of outlasting, out-maneuvering, and occasionally out-quoting opponents who probably should have read the position a little more closely.
Their favorite arena is Daily chess, where the clock is less a predator and more a suggestion. That fits the profile: donotreadit rarely turns into a tactical machine before move eight, and they are not in a hurry to leave the building.
Career arc
The road starts modestly in 2012 with early Blitz ratings in the low 1300s, and it quickly turns into the kind of spiral where every month seems to leave a new dent in the rating cart chart. By the late 2010s, they had climbed to serious heights, and the 2020s brought the kind of spikes that should require a seatbelt.
That story is best shown instead of told:
At the top end, the rating punch hits the remarkable number 2903 (2026-06-15), but wrapping the full career in one number would miss the grindy, all-in personality underneath.
Opening taste
As White, donotreadit likes to start with quiet moves: retreating knights, flanking pawns, and reversed setups that make the early phase feel like tea instead of a knife fight. They often reach the Nimzo-Larsen Attack, and they will happily trot out the flexible Modern Defense or the evergreen Sicilian Defense when the game needs a sharper heartbeat.
The opening menu includes some wonderfully named cases like the Colle-Rhamphorhyncus variation and the London System's Poisoned Pawn line. If your opening book has at least one variation named after a prehistoric pterosaur, you already know who this is.
When you need a visual summary of all those opening results:
An endgame animal
This is a player who does not believe in giving up early. The early resignation rate hovers near 1%, the endgame frequency sits in the high 80s, and the average winning game stretches past move 88. If you sit across from donotreadit, bring a sandwich, a second cup of coffee, and maybe a will.
A typical calm opening strategy might look like this:
Once a piece is lost, the comeback rate stays near 89%. That math is not the "yes, I completely took the wrong mate" typo; it is a lifestyle.
Known by the dance floor
The two most notable frequent visitors to donotreadit's opponent list are Jose Fernando Cuenca and Iván González Menéndez. The 52 games against pepecuenca have turned into a personal anthology of blocks, sparks, and clues. Against starkast, there are 45 epics, with a heavy registration of wins and enough tension to cover a small library. Every recurring opponent seems to leave a little piece of themselves in the archive.
Those names are not just ASCII; they are evidence that online chess loves a good soap opera.
The donotreadit experience
- Longest winning streak: 18 games. Longest losing streak: 7 games. Recovery always follows.
- Best time of day to face human: around 18:00, when the universe lines up and the pawns do what they are told.
- White win rate: 56%. Black win rate: 52%. They do not hide behind a color.
- Endgame frequency: 85.86%. That is the same thing as saying "do not leave your rook unattended."
- Early resignation rate: 1.16%. The average finished game is long and the draws never say "I insisted."