G S: A Blitz Maratonist
Meet the FIDE Master better known online as doyen17. He is a player who finds the deepest meaning in chaos clocks, nervous mice, and four thousand online blitz battles. While he can settle down for a rapid game, the real love story is with blitz: he passes the 4,400-game mark, and treats every one of them as a miniature epic.
A Long and Bumpy Climb
The profile of GS is not the story of overnight genius. He started in the summer of 2013 around 1329 and slowly, with dips and spikes, blended patience with aggression. The chart below shows the classic "one step forward, two moves back, then a leap forward" pattern that most online grinders will recognize. Constant dips aside, the trajectory is unmistakably upward.
His blitz peak eventually reached 2351 (2024-05-03), a serious number for someone who often opens with semi-beloved setups like 1.b3 and still makes the board look like a forest fire.
Favorite Openings and Fearless Experiments
G S is not shy with the first move. On the white side he is completely comfortable with 1.b3, and his blitz ratings in the Nimzo-Larsen Attack show a solid 57% success rate. As black, he specialises in the Caro-Kann Defense, stacking nearly 400 games of experience and resisting all but the sharpest opponents. The Alekhine Defense also appears often, and at 61% against black-side choices he uses it to provoke early pawn storms and counterpunch.
He experiments with the quirky Amazon Attack, taking it with both colors, and he plays the Amar Gambit with a sunny optimism that occasionally makes rating points. The chart below gives a view of the openings that dominated his blitz menu:
Glorious Comebacks
If you beat him, you have done something real, because the man does not give up when position becomes messy. His early resignation rate is tiny (around 11%), and after losing a piece he still wins over half of his games. His comeback rate sits above 86%, which means you can never be comfortable with him, even if the engine says you are winning.
That never-say-die attitude shows up in his longest streak: 16 straight wins, which probably felt nice. He also survived an eight loss streak and came back to continue attacking, a psychological strength that many club players only wish they had.
Reserved Rivalries
Every hero needs someone to fight repeatedly. The most repeated duel in the career list is against luca_bertaglia: 25 games, in which G finished with 15 wins and only 8 losses. He also reserves the back row for jocapacersah, holding 14 wins in 22 meetings. Long-term opponents are a rare and valuable thing in online blitz, because every game becomes an extra between them.
Against the ratings pool he behaves smartly: he scores more than 62% against players below his level, about 30% against better-rated monsters, and remains careful when it comes to equally ranked obstacles. He even seems to like online play most in the 9-to-10 window, a harmless detail that strong players miss.
Beyond the Board
A true blitz lover needs either thick skin or a good therapist. G S has at least the first: his average decisive game runs to 70-80 moves, showing a refusal to simplify when there is still a chance for a complex endgame. His rapid and bullet sample are smaller, but he still demonstrates the same obsessive love: rapid brings him a 58-22 win-loss record, and bullet is treated as pink fire in the late evening. He S is not the world's most practical player, but he is certainly the most persistent.