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facab: A Bullet Chess Biography

Every chess server has one player who treats opening theory the way a raccoon treats a trash can, and on this board that player is facab. A certified bullet chess devotee, facab packed nearly 3,800 games of one-minute chaos into a single season, harvesting 2,358 wins along the way with a mix of weird openings, granite nerves, and a historic refusal to resign. This is the facab story, or at least the parts the rating graph survived.

The Ninety-Day Climb

Every legend needs an embarrassing origin, and facab's arrived in January 2026, when their bullet chess rating made a house call to 100, the lowest number the system is legally allowed to print. What followed was less an improvement curve than a heist: a few thousand sprint games later, facab had roared to a peak of 2907 (2026-04-04), a climb of almost 2,800 points. Blitz told the same story on fast forward, from 895 in February to a 2609 (2026-09-30) peak by the end of September.

A Repertoire Built to Annoy

facab's opening sheet reads like a dare. The Amar Gambit tops the list at 328 bullet games and a 63.72% win rate, which is astonishing for an opening most books file under the heading "do not." The Nimzo-Larsen Attack has been unleashed 190 times, the Barnes Defense 163 times, and the Australian Defense 146 times, all without visible remorse. When a moment of respectability is required, the Caro-Kann Defense appears 314 times and wins about two thirds of those games, proof that facab can behave when properly motivated. The exotic Colle Rhamphorhynchus Variation rounds out the menu at a modest 51%, the price of playing something named after a pterosaur.

Never Resign, Often Flag

This is where facab becomes a genuine problem. The early resignation rate is just 2.58%, which means a lost position is not a verdict, it is a negotiation. The comeback rate sits at a monstrous 85.27%, and facab still wins over 60% of games after dropping a full piece. More than 1,080 bullet victories have arrived by timeout, suggesting the clock is not a constraint but a second set of pieces.

• Longest winning streak: 28 straight games
• Endgame reached in over 75% of games, averaging near 74 moves, a marathoner's heart in a sprinter's format
• 4,003 queen checks delivered, making the queen the most common checking piece by a landslide
• Tilt factor: a zen 12, roughly the resting heart rate of a snooker champion

facab's Rivals: One Punching Bag, One Nemesis

Pablo_dmp has met facab 254 times and lost 208 of those meetings, a relationship shaped like a vending machine that only accepts coins. At the opposite pole stands Daniel Lowinger, apparently the one person who has read the same library: they are dead level at 25 wins apiece plus a single draw, a rivalry so balanced it may be governed by physics. vicas2000 has held up respectably at 13 wins against 49 defeats, which on this ladder counts as resilience.

One artifact from the 254-game pablo_dmp series survives for inspection: Relive the carnage.

Quirks of the facab Experience

• Peak performance at 10 AM with a 76.58% win rate; the hours near 7 and 9 AM dip below 46%, so morning bullet against facab is charity work
• Daily chess was attempted exactly twice, once with an Amar Gambit and once with a French Defense, both lost, confirming the Amar Gambit works best when nobody has time to think
• Casual play yields 16 percentage points more wins than rated play, suggesting facab is mortal after all, just narrowly
• First capture lands around move six on average, patience holding until the trapdoor opens

The final word: facab is a bullet chess grinder with a prankster's repertoire, a marathoner's patience, and a comeback rate that should require a license. Lose a piece and the position merely becomes interesting. Flag at the wrong hour and the rating graph does the rest.