Filip Rasti

The Bullet Devotee

Filip Rasti, known to the chess world as Filip1228, is living proof that a person can play well over a thousand games of bullet chess and still reach for the queue button with joy in his heart. His lifetime bullet ledger reads 562 wins, 637 losses, and 32 draws, which averages out to someone who simply refuses to stop clicking. His all-time bullet peak sits at 1346 (2022-10-15), set back in October 2022, and he has spent the years since chasing that number like it owes him money.

The Opening Repertoire, or Chaos as a Lifestyle

Filip does not memorize theory. Theory memorizes Filip. His most trusted weapon is the Scandinavian Defense, played 99 times at essentially a coin-flip win rate, followed closely by the gloriously suspect Amar Gambit, which he has dared opponents to punish 94 times. For the uninitiated, here is the Amar Gambit in all its edge-knight glory:

His best scorer is the Barnes Opening: Walkerling, winning nearly 62% of the time, with the English Opening close behind at a tidy 60%. His relationship with the Caro-Kann Defense in blitz, however, is best described as complicated.

The arvinboy Files

Every player has a nemesis. Filip has arvinboy, and the head-to-head record reads like a horror novel: 187 meetings, 173 losses, 10 wins, 4 draws. And yet he keeps showing up, which is either the purest optimism in online chess or a hostage situation of his own design. To restore the balance of the universe, flip the page to alitabri, against whom Filip owns a cheerful 7 wins against a single loss. The lesson: it depends entirely on which side of the bed the opponent wakes up on.

Streaks, Slumps, and the Great Comeback

Filip holds two records at once: a 10-game winning streak and a 35-game losing streak. August 2024 was the dark chapter, a two-win, fifty-three-loss crater that would end most careers. Instead, September 2026 delivered the redemption arc: 266 bullet games, 151 victories, and a rocket ride from the 850s up toward 1200, closing in on his all-time peak. His 5.4% early resignation rate and 81.65% comeback rate tell the whole story: he loses material, shrugs, and keeps playing like nothing happened.

Quirks and Habits

• A certified 5 a.m. assassin: a perfect 100% win rate at 05:00. After 9 p.m., treat him as a friendly pinata.
• Rook check enthusiast: 1,705 and counting. If his rook is on the board, it will find your king.
• Endgame loyalist: 61.5% of his games go the distance, averaging 62 moves per win.
• Wins by timeout more often than by checkmate (103 to 47). The clock does the dirty work so his pieces do not have to.
• Has played exactly one daily game in his life, a loss, and never returned. Correspondence chess lost a soldier that day.

The Bullet Journey

The trajectory of a man who keeps getting knocked down and keeps re-queuing:

The Legacy

Filip Rasti is not the strongest player online, and he would be the first to joke about it. What he has instead is the rarest stat of all: persistence. Win ten in a row, lose thirty-five, play a 5 a.m. bullet session, check with the rook anyway. The board resets, the clock ticks, and Filip1228 is already in the next game.