Overview
Margarita Baliuniene (also known online as Fantazy2) is a dedicated online chess player best known for her lightning-fast instincts and a clear preference for Blitz play. She mixes practical opening choices with a stubborn endgame compass — games tend to finish decisively and often late into the clock.
- Preferred time control: Blitz — this is where Margarita shines.
- Blitz record highlights: thousands of games analyzed across multiple years with a strong winning tradition and many memorable streaks.
- Peak Blitz performance: 2057 (2021-04-19)
- Rating trend (sample):
Playing Style & Strengths
Margarita plays like someone who enjoys long, winding chess puzzles — endgames are common and often decisive. She tends to take the initiative in the middlegame and has a surprisingly high comeback rate when things go sideways.
- Endgame-oriented: high endgame frequency and long average decisive games.
- Tactical resilience: strong comeback rate and almost 50% win rate after losing material.
- Typical tempo: many wins come later in the game — average decisive games exceed 60 moves.
- Best hour: tends to perform exceptionally well around 01:00 (a true night-owl blitz specialist).
Favorite Openings & Repertoire
Margarita favors dynamic, unbalanced systems as Black and flexible pawn-structure play as White. She regularly uses both mainstream and offbeat lines to steer opponents into unfamiliar territories.
- As Black: Modern Defense: Pterodactyl Variation — a recurring weapon in her blitz toolkit.
- As Black: Sicilian Defense and its many flavors — she gets good results with sharp Sicilian setups.
- As White: d4-based systems and Queen's Gambit ideas (frequent d4 first-moves).
- Notable repertoire entries: QGD Tarrasch: 4.cxd5, Amazon Attack
Head-to-Head & Rivalries
Margarita has faced many repeat opponents online. A few standouts show she can both dominate and be dominated — depending on the day and the opening choices.
- Most-played opponents include: samat83, admiralzappbrannigan, rubiblau.
- Notable head-to-head: a perfect little streak against admiralzappbrannigan (4–0) — must be the sea-legs.
- Recent memorable game: Thrashing the Admiral
Trends, Streaks & Psychology
Margarita brings both resilience and personality to the board: long winning and losing streaks exist, but so does impressive mental toughness.
- Longest winning streak: 9 games. Longest losing streak: 9 games.
- Comes back well — comeback rate is notably high (she often turns bad positions around).
- Tilt factor: 9 — she feels the heat, but usually bakes it into creative play rather than crumbles.
- Rated vs casual difference: Margarita performs markedly better in rated play, showing competitive focus when it counts.
Yearly Insights & Fun Facts
Across the years Margarita has been a heavy player, particularly in 2024 and 2025 where activity surged. She likes to open with d4 and plays long, fight-for-every-pawn games that make for entertaining commentary.
- Most common first move: d4 (consistently preferred year to year).
- Average decisive game length: around mid-60s in moves — nobody rushes the finish.
- Most common checking piece: queen — yes, she likes theatrical checks.
- Fun: her best hour (01:00) might be why her opponents claim she’s 'too energetic for midnight'.
Example Game (PGN)
Here’s a short illustrative blitz line that captures Margarita’s taste for central play and long-term pressure. Load it in a viewer:
Parting Notes
Margarita Baliuniene (Fantazy2) is the kind of player who’ll make you admire the struggle even as you lose — creative, persistent and delightfully stubborn in the endgame. If you like long blitz fights, she’s worth a follow.
- Want to study her openings? Try Modern Defense: Pterodactyl Variation and Sicilian Defense.
- See where she stands across the years: