Elaynah: Chess Streamer and Entertainer
Elaynah is a chess streamer who loves fast games and clever banter. She streams regularly, providing live commentary as she battles in bullet and beyond. Her channel is a friendly hub where players of all levels feel welcome, often mixing teaching moments with lighthearted humor. You can explore her profile here: Elaynah.
Her rapid-fire style makes for exciting streams, and her fans appreciate the approachable breakdown of complex ideas.
Playing Style and Openings
In Bullet, Elaynah leans into sharp, fast-paced lines and practical, aggressive ideas. She navigates the clock with confidence and often dives into dynamic openings that invite chaos in the best possible way. Her openings of choice include:
- Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Sherzer Variation — 664 games, WinRate ~52.41%
- Scotch Game — 544 games, WinRate ~52.39%
- Scandinavian Defense — 519 games, WinRate ~42%
- Sicilian Defense — 344 games, WinRate ~50.58%
- Amar Gambit — 298 games, WinRate ~48.66%
Her repertoire also shines across Rapid and Blitz, with practical lines such as the London System and Caro-Kann variants showing solid performance. Bullet remains her strongest suit, but she enjoys mixing in other tempos for variety.
Streams, Community, and Personality
Elaynah's streams blend teaching with entertainment. She verbalizes ideas as she plays, answers questions from chat, and builds a welcoming community around analysis and play. The vibe is friendly, inclusive, and occasionally mischievous in the best possible way. Join the growing audience at: Elaynah.
Preferred time control appears to be Bullet, keeping the action brisk and the chat lively.
Highlights
- Longest winning streak: 11 games
- Peak Rapid rating reached around 2031 in 2025
- Notable for engaging opening discussions and viewer-friendly explanations
PGN sample snippet from streams:
Recent Game Strengths
Elaynah, your recent rapid games showcase several strengths worth highlighting:
- Strong endgame technique: Your recent wins often display good knowledge of mating patterns and pressure tactics, culminating successfully as seen in the last checkmate wins.
- Effective opening choices: You frequently employ respected openings like the Caro-Kann and Sicilian variations, which fit your style and provide dynamic opportunities.
- Positional awareness: You maintain solid piece coordination and respond well to threats, notably managing complex middle-game tensions effectively.
- Active piece play: Moves targeting opponent weaknesses and leveraging open files highlight an attacking mindset, often unsettling opponents.
Areas for Improvement
To continue progressing, consider focusing on the following aspects:
- Time management: Several losses and even wins showed moments of tight time pressure. Improving your clock management can help avoid rushed moves and blunders.
- Mitigating tactical oversights: Some losses involved allowing opponent breakthroughs or losing material to tactics. Working on tactics puzzles regularly can help sharpen this.
- Increasing win conversion in equal positions: A handful of drawn or lost games indicate opportunities missed to build advantages. Deepening endgame knowledge and exploiting small edges will boost your score.
- Diversify opening repertoire: While successful with certain openings like the Caro-Kann and Sicilian Alapin, adding more variety may decrease predictability and increase chances against prepared opponents.
- Defense technique in critical moments: Strengthening how you handle counterattack threats and defend tricky positions can improve resilience and confidence.
Rating and Progress Insights
Your recent rating trends and performance show encouraging signs:
- Your strength adjusted win rate of about 51% indicates solid performance against similar strength competitors.
- The positive rating slope over 1, 3, and 6 months shows steady improvement momentum, especially a strong 1-month uptrend.
- The monthly and half-year rating increases of 13 and 53 points, respectively, reflect consistent progress.
- Notably, your rating fluctuations are quite normal in rapid chess, and periods of minor dips can be opportunities for learning and adaptation.
Recommendations for Training
To boost your skill and rating further, here are some targeted suggestions:
- Focused tactics training: Use puzzle trainers emphasizing tactical motifs seen in your game losses like forks, pins, and discovered attacks.
- Endgame practice: Study practical endgame positions common in your games to improve conversion and defense technique.
- Opening theory review: Deepen your knowledge in your main lines, but also experiment with complementary openings to widen strategic options.
- Game analysis: After each session, review critical moments especially in losses to understand where improvement is possible.
- Time control discipline: Practice maintaining better pace throughout games to avoid last-minute mistakes.
🆚 Opponent Insights
| Recent Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| lautarosamaan | 1W / 0L / 0D | View |
| aymanbk10 | 0W / 1L / 0D | View |
| limuel128 | 1W / 0L / 0D | View |
| magolomm1 | 1W / 0L / 0D | View |
| jacktrooper14 | 1W / 0L / 0D | View |
| nayitorex | 1W / 1L / 0D | View |
| javi32134 | 1W / 0L / 0D | View |
| niekkling | 0W / 1L / 0D | View |
| rueckenschmerzen | 0W / 1L / 0D | View |
| hougang | 0W / 1L / 0D | View |
| Most Played Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| m1tttt4 | 19W / 63L / 11D | View Games |
| robinround | 23W / 31L / 5D | View Games |
| Ahmad Al Fadhli | 22W / 22L / 0D | View Games |
| elaynahs_bae | 33W / 8L / 2D | View Games |
| eoins2345 | 18W / 22L / 0D | View Games |
Rating
| Year | Bullet | Blitz | Rapid | Daily |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1401 | 1428 | 1959 | |
| 2024 | 1244 | 1506 | 1872 | 795 |
| 2023 | 952 | 1301 | 1728 | 821 |
| 2022 | 288 | 608 | 1104 | 693 |
| 2021 | 454 | |||
| 2020 | 411 |
Stats by Year
| Year | White | Black | Moves |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1417W / 1516L / 56D | 1404W / 1513L / 66D | 61.9 |
| 2024 | 958W / 1126L / 62D | 947W / 1113L / 67D | 61.9 |
| 2023 | 828W / 803L / 64D | 792W / 852L / 57D | 63.2 |
| 2022 | 272W / 302L / 22D | 227W / 326L / 20D | 61.5 |
| 2021 | 4W / 2L / 1D | 5W / 3L / 0D | 60.6 |
| 2020 | 12W / 16L / 1D | 12W / 15L / 0D | 54.1 |
Openings: Most Played
| Rapid Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation | 211 | 95 | 107 | 9 | 45.0% |
| Blackburne Shilling Gambit | 190 | 91 | 88 | 11 | 47.9% |
| Scotch Game | 180 | 95 | 80 | 5 | 52.8% |
| Caro-Kann Defense | 171 | 78 | 87 | 6 | 45.6% |
| Sicilian Defense | 155 | 79 | 67 | 9 | 51.0% |
| French Defense | 153 | 68 | 72 | 13 | 44.4% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Sherzer Variation | 144 | 65 | 74 | 5 | 45.1% |
| London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation | 137 | 55 | 77 | 5 | 40.1% |
| Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange Variation | 133 | 65 | 60 | 8 | 48.9% |
| Amazon Attack | 131 | 55 | 74 | 2 | 42.0% |
| Blitz Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation | 150 | 77 | 70 | 3 | 51.3% |
| Scotch Game | 137 | 68 | 64 | 5 | 49.6% |
| Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange Variation | 114 | 57 | 53 | 4 | 50.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Sherzer Variation | 99 | 48 | 48 | 3 | 48.5% |
| Bird Opening: Dutch Variation, Batavo Gambit | 99 | 43 | 55 | 1 | 43.4% |
| Sicilian Defense | 86 | 39 | 45 | 2 | 45.4% |
| London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation | 80 | 39 | 38 | 3 | 48.8% |
| Caro-Kann Defense | 69 | 33 | 35 | 1 | 47.8% |
| Blackburne Shilling Gambit | 69 | 36 | 32 | 1 | 52.2% |
| French Defense: Exchange Variation | 66 | 21 | 40 | 5 | 31.8% |
| Bullet Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Sherzer Variation | 718 | 370 | 335 | 13 | 51.5% |
| Scotch Game | 579 | 300 | 270 | 9 | 51.8% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 573 | 238 | 328 | 7 | 41.5% |
| Sicilian Defense | 365 | 186 | 169 | 10 | 51.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation | 333 | 153 | 177 | 3 | 46.0% |
| Amar Gambit | 321 | 156 | 161 | 4 | 48.6% |
| Amazon Attack | 302 | 131 | 164 | 7 | 43.4% |
| London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation | 297 | 133 | 157 | 7 | 44.8% |
| Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange Variation | 288 | 150 | 131 | 7 | 52.1% |
| French Defense | 278 | 139 | 138 | 1 | 50.0% |
| Daily Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sicilian Defense | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 33.3% |
| Bird Opening: Dutch Variation, Batavo Gambit | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60.0% |
| French Defense | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75.0% |
| Scotch Game | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75.0% |
| Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange Variation | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.3% |
| Slav Defense | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon, Modern Bc4 Variation | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Taimanov Variation, Bastrikov Variation | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
🔥 Streaks
| Streak | Longest | Current |
|---|---|---|
| Winning | 11 | 1 |
| Losing | 15 | 0 |