Meet Ferkonja
Milan Franic, better known to the chess server as Ferkonja, has been racking up games since late 2010. His logged blitz record alone contains more than 17,000 games, and he has slowly turned that raw volume into a real force: the blitz curve starts in the 1300s and eventually reaches a peak around 2594.
Fun twist: the profile says Bullet is the preferred time control, but the real home is clearly Blitz. His bullet sample is tiny and mostly early-period cameos, as if Bullet was the dream and Blitz was the office. If you need him at his best, try meeting him at 2 a.m., his statistically strongest hour for winning.
A Devoted d4 Player
Ferkonja is not the player who jumps around the board. His opening habits are extremely loyal, starting with 1.d4 in the majority of his games. When he pacts in known and recurring ideas, he often turns to the Amazon Attack, including the Siberian Attack. It is his kind of chess: A big volume, a consistent setup, and results that lean positive.
Facing the French Defense is also a daily order. The stats show he adopts not just the plain French, but the Advance, Winawer, Tarrasch and Exchange ideas as well. You could write an entire book called "Ferkonja Plays d4 and the French" and still have more data.
If you want to judge by opening results, the chart below tells the story clearly.
The Long Climb
Milan's climb is not a clean line. He has been down, and he has been up again. The longest losing streak in the data is 11 games, but the longest winning streak is 15, and he still only rarely gets crushed into a one sided loss. Give him 70 moves or so and anything can happen. The average decisive game hangs around 74 moves for him, so opponents should be comfortable with long, patient endgames.
Here is a peak at the overall journey:
His highest measured point was 2594 (2025-11-09) in November 2025, right in the middle of an already huge year. That is the number one always sees when bragging about Milan Franic; the backstory is exactly this chart.
Rivalries and Grit
Every regular has a target, and Ferkonja has a few. Among them, michael124667 stands out: they have crossed in games the maximum volume of all his sampled 85 partnerships. The score is close, and it even swings against him, but Ferkonja keeps showing up. It is a genuine rivalry, not a one-sided farm.
As for the spirit: if he loses a piece, he does not just drive straight. The data suggests he still wins half the time after something goes wrong, and his comeback rate is high. Put Ferkonja down on move 15, and you might be the one in trouble on move 71.