Anna Ushenina: The Grandmaster with a Checkmate Genome
Meet Anna Ushenina, a true chess Grandmaster whose moves are as precise as a well-timed mitosis. Awarded the prestigious FIDE Grandmaster title, Anna’s chess career has blossomed with a striking balance of tactical brilliance and psychological resilience — proving that her strategic instincts are anything but dormant.
With a peak Blitz rating soaring up to 2783 in 2020, Anna’s playstyle exhibits a remarkable blend of speed and endurance, boasting a longest winning streak of 11 games. She’s as comfortable navigating rapid-fire Bullet games with a top rating of 2646 as she is executing thoughtful strategies in Rapid chess, where her win rate impressively blooms above 63%.
Anna’s opening repertoire is a “top secret” double helix of creativity and preparation, with a Blitz win rate just over 50%. Her endgame prowess is not to be underestimated, exceeding an 93% endgame frequency — indicating her patient and careful cultivation of advantages, right down to the cellular level of the final moves.
A creature of habit with a curious circadian rhythm, she shows peak performance on Saturdays (64.71% win rate) and fights like a lion at 10 AM and 9 AM with a flawless 100% win rate in those hours. Perhaps her chess neurons fire strongest then!
Not one to easily wilt under pressure, Anna sports a mind immune to early resignations and demonstrates an incredible 100% win rate after losing a piece. She truly regenerates her tactical advantage, like a biological wonder coming back stronger after each setback.
Off the board, Anna’s competitive DNA is intertwined with a playful spirit — engaging regularly with fierce opponents and adapting her style fluidly. Whether facing “badchessplayer1by1” or duking it out with long-time rivals like “chessqueen,” Anna’s resilience and creativity ensure her place near the apex of the chess biosphere.
In the ecosystem of international chess, Anna Ushenina remains a queen who defends her territory with cunning, grace, and an unyielding cytoplasm of tactical genius — few can survive her checkmate cellular storm.
Hi Anna, here is your personalised game-plan!
What you already do extremely well
- Opening breadth: In the recent Queen’s Gambit Declined win against badchessplayer1by1, you steered the game into a dynamic c5/b4 structure (see move 6) that stifled Black’s …e6–…c5 plan. Your feel for flexible pawn structures is obvious.
- Tactical alertness: 18.c6! (same game) created two connected passed pawns and forced Black’s pieces into passive defence. The follow-up 26.Rd7! was spot-on.
. - King-hunt instinct: Your checkmating attack against multifish (…Qxg2#) shows crisp calculation in double-piece sacrifices.
Recurring themes that cost you points
- Clock management
• 4 of the 6 recent losses were timeout positions where you were still objectively better or equal (e.g. vs. Riley, move 32).
• You often spend 25–35 % of the game time in the first ten moves.
Action item: Adopt a “two-tempo budget” rule in blitz: if a move does not change the evaluation by ±0.50 you have max 10 seconds to decide. Train this in 1-min puzzles. - Converting technical endings
• In the London-System loss vs. Riley you reached a pleasant end-game pawn majority but drifted: 30…Qd8 instead of 30…Qxd4! allowed White counterplay and cost two minutes.
• Study 2 vs. 1 on the flank rook end-games; drill the “cut-off king” technique. - Unstable knight outposts
• Against Bence Leszko your Nb5/e5 knights looked menacing but could not be supported; …Nxh2! …Nf3! punished that.
• When you jump into the enemy camp, ask “How many pawn defenders can support my knight within three moves?” If ≤1, reconsider.
Targeted exercises for the coming week
| Theme | Drill | Goal |
|---|---|---|
| Time-pressure decisions | Play 20 games 3|0 while recording move times | Average ≤ 5 sec/move in first 12 moves |
| Rook endings | Chessable “100 Endings” chap. 8 (R+P vs. R) | Score 80 % on spaced-repetition quiz |
| Stable Outposts | Create 10 positions where your knight is supported by a pawn chain; engine checks solidity | Visual pattern stored |
Your progress dashboard
• Peak blitz rating: 2783 (2020-06-26)• Activity curve:
• Hour-by-hour sharpness:
Mini-glossary (tap to review)
• zwischenzug – an in-between move that changes the tactical picture.• zugzwang – a position where any move worsens the side to move.
Next step
Pick one of your timeout losses, annotate it focusing only on the moment you dropped below 30 seconds. Doing this for just 5 games will hard-wire a healthier rhythm.Stay sharp & keep the clock under control!
🆚 Opponent Insights
| Most Played Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| Alexandra Kosteniuk | 10W / 9L / 9D | |
| Kateryna Lagno | 8W / 7L / 8D | |
| Valentina Gunina | 10W / 9L / 4D | |
| Sarasadat Khademalsharieh | 7W / 6L / 2D | |
| Deysi Cori | 8W / 3L / 2D | |
Rating
| Year | Bullet | Blitz | Rapid | Daily |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2555 | 2687 | 2342 | |
| 2020 | 2542 | 2687 | 2585 |
Stats by Year
| Year | White | Black | Moves |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0W / 2L / 1D | 0W / 0L / 0D | 83.3 |
| 2020 | 76W / 20L / 26D | 50W / 40L / 33D | 96.4 |
Openings: Most Played
| Blitz Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation | 31 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 61.3% |
| Döry Defense | 19 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 63.2% |
| Caro-Kann Defense | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 52.9% |
| East Indian Defense | 16 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 87.5% |
| Caro-Kann Defense: Classical Variation | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 18.2% |
| Petrov's Defense | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 25.0% |
| QGA: 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 57.1% |
| Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange Variation | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 40.0% |
| QGA: 3.e3 c5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% |
| Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Bullet Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 60.0% |
| East Indian Defense | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 33.3% |
| Döry Defense | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 60.0% |
| Petrov's Defense | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0% |
| Caro-Kann Defense | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 75.0% |
| Colle System: Rhamphorhynchus Variation | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| QGA: 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Amar Gambit | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Indian Defense: Schnepper Gambit | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Bishop's Opening: Urusov Gambit | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Rapid Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Attack: Siberian Attack | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Caro-Kann Defense: Classical Variation | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Modern Defense | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Nimzo-Larsen Attack | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Bogo-Indian Defense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Petrov's Defense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Nimzo-Indian Defense: Three Knights Variation, Duchamp Variation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
🔥 Streaks
| Streak | Longest | Current |
|---|---|---|
| Winning | 11 | 0 |
| Losing | 4 | 0 |