The Patron Saint of the Blitz Queue
fgawkfiv is a FIDE Candidate Master who treats online blitz the way some people treat their morning commute: prominently, repeatedly, and with a strangely hopeful attitude. From 2022 through 2026 the data log shows over 17,000 analyzed games, almost all of them in blitz, with the occasional bullet and rapid detour. The rating chart is a proper roller coaster,
, full of 2200-level cliffs and 2300-level summits. The peak, 2404 (2025-10-23), was touched in late 2025, and that is no small thing for a player who also survived a 14-game losing streak and came back swinging.Openings With Personality
When playing White, fgawkfiv almost always opens with 1.e4. That leads to an enormous familiarity with the Scotch Game, a 1,136-game blitz collection with 55.11% winning percentage. The Sicilian Defense is also a close companion, both as White with the Sozin Attack at 55.86% and as Black with the 959-game relationship to the [[Link to|term|Yugoslav Attack]]. There is also a deep love for the Caro-Kann Defense, the French Defense, and lots of Scandinavian Defense, so it's safe to say fgawkfiv does not mind sharp fighting positions.
Look at the opening results and the theme is extremely clear: this player wins with straightforward ideas and hates slow silent games.
will show exactly where the board.Rivalries and Comebacks
No single opponent has seen more of the fgawkfiv experience than Ariel Crawford. In 36 games against acrawford28, fgawkfiv is ahead 19 wins to 16 losses with one draw. The score is tight enough to feel like a real rivalry: both players know the other's tricks, and neither rolls over easy.
The comeback stats make the biography even more interesting. fgawkfiv turns the result in their favor from losing positions in 86.37 percent of those cases, and after losing a piece the win rate stays at 43.02 percent. There is also a 1.92 percent early resignation rate, which is practically a statistic for stubborn. The best window is 09:00 with 62.5 percent wins; somehow, when noon arrives, that number drops to 30.77 percent. Morning coffee is clearly the bigger advantage.
The Tiny Black Box
Some players are known for long endings; fgawkfiv plays until 76 moves per win and 70 moves per loss. The longest winning streak is 12, the longest losing streak is 14, and the average first capture comes around move 5. With that style, this is a player who starts the Euro quickly, keeps the clock running, and never says "good game" too soon.