Ema Hajdinic (emah6) - Woman Candidate Master
Meet Ema Hajdinic, a formidable chess force whose journey across the 64 squares has been nothing short of electrifying! Holding the prestigious title of Woman Candidate Master from FIDE, Ema combines strategic depth with a tactical sharpness that keeps opponents on their toes and fans eagerly watching.
Rating & Performance Highlights
- Peak Blitz Rating: 2277 (May 2025) – a speed demon with lightning-fast calculation skills.
- Peak Bullet Rating: 2299 (April 2025) – the tempo master of lightning chess.
- Peak Rapid Rating: 2007 (May 2024) – proving prowess when the clock ticks a bit slower.
- Peak Daily Rating: 1659 (January 2024) – taking her time to meticulously crush rivals.
Playing Style & Stats
Ema enjoys the long game, with an intense focus on endgames (playing them in 77% of her matches). She’s not one to resign early either — only about 3% of the time, showing a dogged fighting spirit.
With an average of around 73 moves per victory, she definitely prefers to keep her opponents guessing and grinding until the bitter end. Her comeback rate is an astounding 83%, revealing a gladiator who thrives even after losing material.
Opening Repertoire
Whether it’s the Sicilian Defense Four Knights Variation or the Closed Sicilian Defense Traditional Line, Ema is well-versed and highly effective. Her blitz game shows a particular fondness for the Sicilian Defense, pulling out tricks that leave opponents scratching their heads.
Her bullet games are peppered with strategic gems like the Top Secret opening and the Caro Kann Defense Exchange Rubinstein Variation, boasting win rates above 50%. Clearly, her openings are anything but predictable!
Psychological Edge
Ema's psychological toughness and tactical awareness are no joke. Despite the occasional tilt factor rating of 14 (who doesn’t get a little mad losing a piece?), she bounces back quickly to win nearly half her games even after losing material.
Her best playing hour? The mysterious hour of 4:00 AM — when sleep-deprived strategy meets lightning-fast thought. Maybe this is when the chess gods whisper their secrets.
Recent Match Spotlight
In a recent thrilling blitz battle, Ema triumphed with the black pieces against a strong opponent (full game here). Using the Closed Sicilian Defense, she turned pressure into victory as her opponent resigned — proving once again that emah6 is a queen of comebacks and killer endgames.
A Word of Humor
They say chess is 99% tactics and 1% psychology — but with Ema Hajdinic, it’s probably 110% cunning and a pinch of midnight madness.
Coach's Feedback for Ema Hajdinic
First of all, congratulations on your recent games and your wins! You're showing solid understanding of the openings, especially in Sicilian and Caro-Kann lines, and your tactical awareness helped you convert advantageous positions effectively.
Strengths
- Opening Repertoire: You have a good grasp of standard openings like the Sicilian Defense (including Four Knights Variation) and Caro-Kann Exchange Variation. Your moves demonstrate understanding of key principles such as development, control of the center, and timely exchanges.
- Tactical Awareness: You successfully capitalized on tactical opportunities by simplifying into favorable endgames and taking advantage of your opponent’s inaccuracies.
- Positional Play: You often place your pieces actively and create threats, such as your effective bishop maneuvers and central control in the middlegame.
Areas to Improve
- Endgame Technique: In a few games, such as the loss against YouTube_syndikusanwalt, the endgame slipped away, even from seemingly equal positions. Improving your knowledge of common endgame patterns and defensive techniques will help you hold better in those critical moments.
- Time Management: While your time usage is generally good, there are moments where you spend a lot of time early on, especially in familiar openings, and then later face pressure in complicated positions. Try to maintain a more balanced pace to avoid time trouble in tactical or complex scenarios.
- Handling Pressure and Defense: In some losses, your position began to deteriorate slowly due to pressure from opponents’ active pieces and pawn breaks. Working on defensive techniques and prophylaxis to anticipate threats more consistently will strengthen your resilience.
Suggestions
- Study endgames actively — focus on king and pawn, rook endgames, and basic piece endgames that often arise from your opening choices.
- Practice tactics regularly to hone your calculation speed and accuracy, which will help both in offense and defense during the middlegame.
- Analyze your games carefully, especially losses, to identify key moments when you could improve your move choice or plan. This will increase your overall strategic understanding.
- Consider experimenting with diversifying your openings slightly to surprise opponents and deepen your theoretical knowledge.
Keep up the consistent work and enjoy your progress! Your ability to win against similar-rated opponents shows you are on the right path. With focused effort on the areas mentioned, your chess will keep improving steadily.
🆚 Opponent Insights
| Recent Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| viscaelbarca_chetan | 0W / 1L / 0D | View |
| mightystar | 1W / 0L / 0D | View |
| cristiano0945 | 0W / 1L / 0D | View |
| ubaydullaev07 | 1W / 0L / 0D | View |
| xhepmasha666 | 1W / 0L / 0D | View |
| gevxanoyan | 2W / 0L / 0D | View |
| uzair_nizamani | 0W / 0L / 1D | View |
| trvnn | 0W / 1L / 0D | View |
| ivano12 | 91W / 214L / 53D | View |
| justplaying93 | 0W / 1L / 0D | View |
| Most Played Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| ivano12 | 91W / 214L / 53D | View Games |
| mihaelaturk | 13W / 5L / 1D | View Games |
| doctor_bullet | 9W / 9L / 0D | View Games |
| malaric7777 | 10W / 3L / 2D | View Games |
| Process_Chess | 9W / 1L / 3D | View Games |
Rating
| Year | Bullet | Blitz | Rapid | Daily |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2500 | 2172 | 1984 | |
| 2024 | 2073 | 2157 | 2000 | 1338 |
| 2023 | 1969 | 2004 | 1600 |
Stats by Year
| Year | White | Black | Moves |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 682W / 537L / 70D | 590W / 593L / 92D | 67.2 |
| 2024 | 640W / 546L / 80D | 607W / 583L / 80D | 76.5 |
| 2023 | 387W / 298L / 41D | 363W / 300L / 55D | 79.6 |
Openings: Most Played
| Blitz Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 347 | 225 | 119 | 3 | 64.8% |
| Sicilian Defense: Closed | 216 | 101 | 98 | 17 | 46.8% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation | 118 | 53 | 56 | 9 | 44.9% |
| Sicilian Defense: Taimanov Variation, American Attack | 118 | 59 | 54 | 5 | 50.0% |
| French Defense: Advance Variation | 98 | 49 | 42 | 7 | 50.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Sherzer Variation | 83 | 40 | 39 | 4 | 48.2% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 72 | 36 | 34 | 2 | 50.0% |
| Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid, Hromádka Variation | 71 | 35 | 28 | 8 | 49.3% |
| Sicilian Defense | 68 | 34 | 28 | 6 | 50.0% |
| Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense | 55 | 30 | 21 | 4 | 54.5% |
| Bullet Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sicilian Defense: Closed | 416 | 204 | 186 | 26 | 49.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation | 244 | 123 | 108 | 13 | 50.4% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 218 | 98 | 109 | 11 | 45.0% |
| Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange Variation | 185 | 99 | 74 | 12 | 53.5% |
| Modern | 172 | 91 | 67 | 14 | 52.9% |
| Sicilian Defense: Taimanov Variation, American Attack | 171 | 80 | 75 | 16 | 46.8% |
| Czech Defense | 159 | 64 | 79 | 16 | 40.2% |
| French Defense: Advance Variation | 158 | 86 | 64 | 8 | 54.4% |
| Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense | 155 | 88 | 59 | 8 | 56.8% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Sherzer Variation | 146 | 62 | 71 | 13 | 42.5% |
| Daily Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sicilian Defense | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60.0% |
| Unknown | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75.0% |
| Barnes Defense | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Czech Defense | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Diemer-Duhm Gambit (DDG): 4...f5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Vienna Gambit: 3...d5 4.exd5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Sherzer Variation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Taimanov Variation, American Attack | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Rapid Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sicilian Defense: Taimanov Variation, American Attack | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.3% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Four Knights Game | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid, Hromádka Variation | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Bird Opening: Dutch Variation, Batavo Gambit | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Australian Defense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Amazon Attack | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Philidor Defense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
🔥 Streaks
| Streak | Longest | Current |
|---|---|---|
| Winning | 15 | 0 |
| Losing | 14 | 1 |