Fatih: The Chess Streamer on a Meteoric Rise
Meet Fatih, a streamer whose chess journey looks like a thrilling roller coaster ride with more ups than downs! Starting his online rapid chess escapades in late 2021 at a humble 1483 rating, Fatih has soared past the 2000 mark in rapid and blitz, not to mention punching through 2400+ in bullet by mid-2025.
Rating Highlights
- Rapid: Peaked at 2046 in January 2025.
- Bullet: A blazing 2429 peak in May 2025. Yes, Fatih is basically a bullet machine!
- Blitz: Climbed gracefully to 2194 in April 2024.
- Daily: Cozy peak of 1614 — sometimes even grandmasters need a slower game.
Playing Style & Humor
Fatih combines patience with aggression — averaging around 70 moves per victory in rapid games, showing endurance worthy of a marathon runner and the tactical acuity of a ninja. He’s no quitter either; with an early resignation rate just above 1%, this streamer prefers to wrestle with the opponent till the bitter end.
Despite his serious stats, Fatih’s tilt factor sits at a modest 12, meaning when the chess gods frown, he keeps calm enough to stream and crack jokes!
Favorite Openings
With a penchant for the Reti Opening Sicilian Invitation and Caro Kann Defense in bullet games, Fatih clearly likes to keep his opponents guessing — sometimes even himself! In rapid, he shines brightest in the French Defense Advance Paulsen Attack, where he boasts a whopping 81% win rate.
Impressive Win-Loss Record
Across all time controls, Fatih has racked up over 10,000 wins in bullet alone – a testament to his speed and lightning reflexes. His resilience is further highlighted by an astonishing 85%+ comeback rate, proving he’s never out until the last piece drops.
When to Catch the Stream
If you want to see Fatih at his sharpest, set your alarm for 11 PM (his “Best Time of Day to Play”), when his win rate by hour hits above 58%! (Late nights: the secret sauce?)
Recent Memorable Games
Just recently, on June 1st 2025, Fatih showcased his strategic prowess with a masterclass victory on time in a fiercely fought rapid battle featuring the Reti Opening. Earlier, he checkmated a much lower-rated opponent in a swift and sweet game that would make any streamer proud.
Fans and Foes
Fatih’s streaming crowd can often be heard cheering his longest winning streak of 24 games, but don’t be fooled — he’s also no stranger to a manageable losing run. Opponents beware: this tactical shark knows how to bounce back with a come-from-behind 85% success rate after losing material!
In short: Fatih streams, slays, and sometimes blunders — but always with style. Follow his journey and you might learn a few tricks... or at least get some quality entertainment!
What You're Doing Well
Fatih, your recent bullet games show several strengths that are contributing to your successes:
- Strong Opening Repertoire: You have solid performance with openings like the London System (over 62% win rate) and Colle System (~60% win rate). These results suggest you understand these systems well and can capitalize on them even at fast time controls.
- Good Tactical Awareness: Your victories include well-executed offensive play and ability to capitalize on opponent mistakes quickly, a key skill in bullet chess.
- Effective Use of Initiative: In your wins, you often push for early pressure such as advancing pawns aggressively or tactical strikes, like using rook captures on pawns and queen infiltrations, which help force your opponents into defensive positions.
- Endgame Technique: Your ability to convert winning material into checkmate in bullet games indicates a solid grasp of basic mating patterns and endgame principles.
Opportunities for Improvement
While your strengths serve you well, here are some focused areas to improve in your bullet games and overall play:
- Maintain Consistency Under Time Pressure: Your rating shows some recent declines despite a positive 1-month trend slope. Focusing on minimizing blunders and improving quick but accurate calculation can help stabilize and improve your rating.
- Opening Variety and Adaptation: While your core openings are strong, exploring a wider range of responses and less common variations can surprise opponents and reduce predictability.
- Time Management: Your games show good use of time early on, but keep practicing efficient time allocation especially in complex positions to avoid time scrambles.
- Endgame Refinement: Continuing to drill common endgame scenarios and checkmating patterns will help convert more winning chances and save difficult games.
- Analyze Losses for Patterns: Review your losses where you gave up winning material or overlooked simple tactics to identify recurring errors or weaknesses.
Training Recommendations
To move your bullet rating back up and raise your overall strength, consider:
- Practicing tactical puzzles regularly to improve pattern recognition and calculation speed.
- Studying key theoretical lines in your main openings deeply to gain confidence and familiarity with common plans.
- Playing longer time control games occasionally to deepen your understanding of strategic ideas and endgames.
- Recording and analyzing your blitz and bullet games to review critical mistakes and missed opportunities.
- Working on your intuition for time management and decision-making under pressure.
Summary
Your overall performance and opening skill set are solid foundations. By focusing on consistency, expanding your opening knowledge, and refining endgame techniques, you will convert more of your strong positions into wins and regain upward rating momentum. Keep leveraging your attacking instincts and tactical alertness, especially in fast-paced bullet games.
🆚 Opponent Insights
| Most Played Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| olemona | 76W / 41L / 5D | View Games |
| jannurchess | 62W / 47L / 1D | View Games |
| Arda | 69W / 8L / 6D | View Games |
| satrancbilmeyenadamyt | 74W / 8L / 0D | View Games |
| zuvery53 | 45W / 30L / 5D | View Games |
Rating
| Year | Bullet | Blitz | Rapid | Daily |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2257 | 2069 | 2012 | |
| 2024 | 2155 | 1879 | 2031 | 1249 |
| 2023 | 2153 | 2017 | 1931 | 1368 |
| 2022 | 2268 | 2055 | 1812 | 1279 |
| 2021 | 2137 | 1908 | 1727 | |
| 2020 | 1975 | 1300 |
Stats by Year
| Year | White | Black | Moves |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2645W / 1542L / 190D | 2493W / 1761L / 167D | 72.5 |
| 2024 | 1756W / 1214L / 115D | 1676W / 1313L / 106D | 71.6 |
| 2023 | 1575W / 1048L / 115D | 1463W / 1172L / 117D | 72.3 |
| 2022 | 2178W / 1454L / 192D | 2047W / 1636L / 174D | 73.3 |
| 2021 | 904W / 513L / 68D | 839W / 584L / 64D | 73.6 |
| 2020 | 6W / 2L / 1D | 5W / 3L / 1D | 67.6 |
Openings: Most Played
| Rapid Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation | 62 | 37 | 22 | 3 | 59.7% |
| French Defense: Advance Variation | 43 | 30 | 11 | 2 | 69.8% |
| French Defense | 36 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 66.7% |
| French Defense: Exchange Variation | 35 | 19 | 14 | 2 | 54.3% |
| Australian Defense | 33 | 20 | 11 | 2 | 60.6% |
| Sicilian Defense | 25 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 60.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation | 25 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 40.0% |
| QGD: 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 60.9% |
| Amazon Attack: Siberian Attack | 19 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 42.1% |
| QGD: 4.Nf3 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 42.1% |
| Bullet Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation | 2242 | 1403 | 764 | 75 | 62.6% |
| Colle System: Rhamphorhynchus Variation | 1899 | 1122 | 714 | 63 | 59.1% |
| Caro-Kann Defense | 1437 | 787 | 592 | 58 | 54.8% |
| Benoni Defense: Benoni Gambit Accepted | 1042 | 559 | 444 | 39 | 53.6% |
| Australian Defense | 980 | 550 | 390 | 40 | 56.1% |
| Amar Gambit | 953 | 504 | 403 | 46 | 52.9% |
| Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange Variation | 620 | 339 | 260 | 21 | 54.7% |
| French Defense | 568 | 322 | 222 | 24 | 56.7% |
| Döry Defense | 530 | 308 | 205 | 17 | 58.1% |
| East Indian Defense | 506 | 279 | 203 | 24 | 55.1% |
| Blitz Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation | 600 | 357 | 214 | 29 | 59.5% |
| Australian Defense | 347 | 214 | 123 | 10 | 61.7% |
| Sicilian Defense: Closed, Anti-Sveshnikov Variation, Kharlov-Kramnik Line | 345 | 226 | 107 | 12 | 65.5% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation | 257 | 161 | 80 | 16 | 62.6% |
| Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon | 246 | 141 | 93 | 12 | 57.3% |
| Colle System: Rhamphorhynchus Variation | 238 | 140 | 88 | 10 | 58.8% |
| French Defense: Exchange Variation | 238 | 133 | 91 | 14 | 55.9% |
| French Defense | 232 | 147 | 73 | 12 | 63.4% |
| Amar Gambit | 230 | 136 | 84 | 10 | 59.1% |
| Sicilian Defense | 201 | 116 | 78 | 7 | 57.7% |
| Daily Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Barnes Defense | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 85.7% |
| Sicilian Defense: Closed, Anti-Sveshnikov Variation, Kharlov-Kramnik Line | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Scotch Game | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Philidor Defense | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Blackburne Shilling Gambit | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50.0% |
| Amazon Attack | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Bird Opening: Dutch Variation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| QGD: 4.Nf3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| French Defense: Advance Variation | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
🔥 Streaks
| Streak | Longest | Current |
|---|---|---|
| Winning | 25 | 0 |
| Losing | 12 | 1 |