About Fenix03
Fenix03 is a formidable online chess player who thrives especially in rapid time controls, showing a consistent passion for the game since at least 2020. This player has climbed the ranks steadily, breaking into very competitive ratings across multiple formats, with rapid chess being a particular stronghold.
Playing Style
Fenix03 enjoys a tactical and strategic style of play, with a notable focus on deep thinking as indicated by an average game length of about 74 moves in wins and 67 moves in losses. This player often resolves games deep into the endgame phase (frequent endgames at 71.6%), showing resilience and patience. The comeback rate is impressively high at 82.39%, proving grit and determination to bounce back after setbacks.
Strengths and Preferences
- Preferred Time Control: Rapid chess, where Fenix03 has achieved a peak rating of 2223 as of July 2025.
- Opening Favorites:
- Blitz & Rapid: Dutch Defense, Sicilian Defense, Giuoco Piano (Tarrasch Variation), and Blackburne Shilling Gambit.
- Bullet: Dutch Defense and Scandinavian Defense are commonly played with good success.
- Psychological Edge: Low early resignation rate (2.17%), indicating fighting spirit. White pieces enjoy a slightly better win rate (53.08%) than black (50.82%).
- Game Dynamics: Usually captures occur early around move 6, reflecting a proactive fighting approach.
Career Highlights
- Achieved a peak Blitz rating of 1935 and Bullet rating of 2000 in mid-2025.
- Held a remarkable winning streak of 17 games at some point, demonstrating the potential for dominance.
- Recorded an astonishing comeback ability and wins after losing material almost half the time.
- Highly competitive against top opponents, notably Riccardogheo with a record of 320 wins out of 420 games.
Fun Fact
Fenix03’s best times to play are surprisingly early in the morning, around 5 AM, with a perfect 100% win rate during that hour—proof that they rise and shine with a killer chess mindset!
Coach Chesswick
Positives in Your Recent Rapid Games
Fenix03, looking at your most recent games in the rapid format, here are some highlights:
- Strong tactical awareness: You successfully executed several checkmate patterns, demonstrating good calculation and attack timing.
- Opening preparation: You showed good understanding of multiple openings including the Scandinavian Defense and Sicilian Defense variations, often reaching favorable middlegame positions.
- Endgame technique: In many games you converted winning advantages efficiently, showing you have solid endgame skills especially in rook and minor piece endgames.
- Time management: You generally kept a good time balance, with thoughtful moves under pressure.
Areas for Improvement
To continue improving and climb through the 2100+ level, consider focusing on these areas:
- Consistency against strong opposition: Your losses often came against players rated near your level or higher. Review those games to spot recurring strategic or tactical mistakes.
- Positional play: Your openings have good theory, but middlegame plans can sometimes miss exploiting weaknesses or creating lasting pressure. Work on long-term planning and piece coordination.
- Handling complex closed positions: Some games featured closed pawn structures where progress was limited. Study techniques for breaking down such positions or maneuvering to open lines.
- Reduce unforced errors: In several losses, small inaccuracies snowballed. Regular tactics training and game reviews may help reduce these mistakes.
- Diversify defense repertoire: While you have success with openings like the Dutch Defense and the Blackburne Shilling Gambit, your win rate with certain Sicilian variations is lower. Experiment with alternative defenses or refinements.
Insights from Your Performance Trends
Reviewing your rating history and stats shows positive momentum:
- Your 6-month trend slope of nearly 40 points per month indicates strong recent improvement.
- Despite a slight dip in the last month (-15 rating), the slope suggests the current direction remains upward.
- Your overall win rate near 50% against somewhat adjusted opposition rating is solid at your level.
- You excel in specific openings such as the Blackburne Shilling Gambit and Giuoco Piano: Tarrasch Variation, where your win rates exceed 55%.
- Continued focus on openings with lower win rates (e.g., Accelerated Dragon, Alapin Variation) could yield rating gains.
Recommended Next Steps for Improvement
To leverage your strengths and address weaknesses, try these actions:
- Deepen opening study: Reinforce lines where you have strong success and work on understanding key ideas behind less successful openings.
- Analyze losses thoroughly: Identify tactical oversights or positional misunderstandings; consider keeping a chess journal for reflections after each game.
- Study classic endgames: Enhance your technique in rook endgames and common minor piece endgames to convert advantages more reliably.
- Develop positional understanding: Use annotated master games or training videos focusing on planning and prophylaxis in closed and semi-closed structures.
- Regular tactical exercises: Maintain a daily routine of puzzles to sharpen calculation and pattern recognition.
- Practice time management: Experiment with different pace games if needed to keep calm under time pressure and avoid hurried errors.
🆚 Opponent Insights
| Most Played Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| riccardogheo | 320W / 74L / 26D | View Games |
| xxluca2020xx | 51W / 31L / 3D | View Games |
| José Miguel Arroyo | 20W / 18L / 7D | View Games |
| qcalebq | 5W / 18L / 7D | View Games |
| todiaa | 25W / 1L / 4D | View Games |
Rating
| Year | Bullet | Blitz | Rapid | Daily |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2000 | 1902 | 2200 | 840 |
| 2024 | 1907 | 1870 | 1992 | 781 |
| 2023 | 1827 | 1632 | 1976 | 722 |
| 2022 | 1621 | 1560 | 1808 | 446 |
| 2021 | 1364 | 1357 | 1615 | |
| 2020 | 1296 | 1344 | 1542 |
Stats by Year
| Year | White | Black | Moves |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 417W / 277L / 47D | 385W / 312L / 46D | 75.5 |
| 2024 | 839W / 519L / 80D | 811W / 546L / 87D | 76.3 |
| 2023 | 618W / 518L / 61D | 607W / 517L / 55D | 71.3 |
| 2022 | 560W / 442L / 106D | 519W / 500L / 82D | 71.2 |
| 2021 | 418W / 364L / 55D | 396W / 414L / 41D | 71.7 |
| 2020 | 270W / 279L / 26D | 280W / 263L / 36D | 71.7 |
Openings: Most Played
| Blitz Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sicilian Defense: Closed, Anti-Sveshnikov Variation, Kharlov-Kramnik Line | 251 | 130 | 104 | 17 | 51.8% |
| Sicilian Defense | 221 | 124 | 84 | 13 | 56.1% |
| Amar Gambit | 219 | 124 | 80 | 15 | 56.6% |
| Blackburne Shilling Gambit | 214 | 116 | 88 | 10 | 54.2% |
| Dutch Defense | 205 | 109 | 89 | 7 | 53.2% |
| Giuoco Piano: Tarrasch Variation | 202 | 125 | 63 | 14 | 61.9% |
| Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon | 198 | 114 | 73 | 11 | 57.6% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 187 | 96 | 82 | 9 | 51.3% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation | 177 | 100 | 63 | 14 | 56.5% |
| Sicilian Defense: Four Knights Variation, Cobra Variation | 174 | 96 | 73 | 5 | 55.2% |
| Rapid Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch Defense | 189 | 97 | 85 | 7 | 51.3% |
| Giuoco Piano: Tarrasch Variation | 185 | 102 | 73 | 10 | 55.1% |
| Sicilian Defense | 184 | 91 | 83 | 10 | 49.5% |
| Blackburne Shilling Gambit | 184 | 106 | 67 | 11 | 57.6% |
| Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon | 170 | 75 | 81 | 14 | 44.1% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation | 156 | 71 | 77 | 8 | 45.5% |
| Sicilian Defense: Closed, Anti-Sveshnikov Variation, Kharlov-Kramnik Line | 137 | 76 | 53 | 8 | 55.5% |
| Sicilian Defense: Four Knights Variation, Cobra Variation | 130 | 73 | 50 | 7 | 56.1% |
| Philidor Defense | 118 | 65 | 39 | 14 | 55.1% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 114 | 55 | 50 | 9 | 48.2% |
| Bullet Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scandinavian Defense | 199 | 97 | 90 | 12 | 48.7% |
| Dutch Defense | 174 | 98 | 70 | 6 | 56.3% |
| Sicilian Defense: Closed | 166 | 86 | 72 | 8 | 51.8% |
| Amar Gambit | 134 | 73 | 57 | 4 | 54.5% |
| Bird Opening: Dutch Variation, Batavo Gambit | 111 | 52 | 53 | 6 | 46.9% |
| Sicilian Defense: Closed, Anti-Sveshnikov Variation, Kharlov-Kramnik Line | 110 | 65 | 38 | 7 | 59.1% |
| Sicilian Defense | 102 | 57 | 40 | 5 | 55.9% |
| Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon | 100 | 54 | 41 | 5 | 54.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Four Knights Variation, Cobra Variation | 94 | 47 | 38 | 9 | 50.0% |
| Dutch Defense: Queen's Knight Variation | 93 | 51 | 37 | 5 | 54.8% |
| Daily Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburne Shilling Gambit | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Dutch Defense | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Sicilian Defense | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Closed, Anti-Sveshnikov Variation, Kharlov-Kramnik Line | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Czech Defense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Nyezhmetdinov-Rossolimo Attack, Fianchetto Variation | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| QGA: 3.e3 c5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Closed | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
🔥 Streaks
| Streak | Longest | Current |
|---|---|---|
| Winning | 17 | 2 |
| Losing | 11 | 0 |