Meet Ishvi Aggarwal
Ishvi Aggarwal, known on the clocks as geminithegreat, is a Woman Candidate Master who treats bullet chess like a contact sport. She has the FIDE title, but her true home is the online arena, where she has piled up thousands of games in the fastest time controls.
Peaks and Valleys
Ishvi's rating graph is a roller coaster aimed upward. She reached 2436 (2026-02-09) in bullet and 2494 (2026-04-19) in blitz, with a rapid peak of 2373 (2024-09-20). Her climb from the 2000s into the mid 2400s is visible in her bullet history:
.Opening Repertoire
She favors 1.d4 with White, but she is no dull positional grinder. With Black she leans on the French Defense and Scandinavian Defense, and with White she happily ventures into Amar Gambit territory and other unorthodox setups. A typical French Defense advance from her bullet blitzes looks like this:
.Grinder Statistics
- More than 6,000 rated games, overwhelmingly in bullet and blitz.
- An 11 game winning streak and a 21 game losing streak; she knows both glory and chaos.
- An 86.25% comeback rate, meaning she rarely folds early.
- An average decisive game of about 77 moves, with 85.33% of games reaching an endgame.
- A 74.77% win rate against lower rated players and a 23.64% win rate against higher rated ones; she keeps testing herself up the ladder.
- Her best win rate comes at 23:00, while Saturdays are a danger zone.
Rivalries
No look at Ishvi is complete without tricky_anand. They have faced each other 27 times, with tricky_anand ahead 14 wins to 9 and 4 draws. She has better luck against anhtai2503, taking 11 wins from their 19 meetings. These rivalries give her endless reasons to queue up again.
The Verdict
Ishvi Aggarwal is a titled player with the soul of an online street fighter. Her overall record shows more losses than wins, but that is the price of playing stronger opposition over and over again. She fights to the endgame, shrugs off bad streaks, and does her best thinking when the rest of the world is asleep. In bullet chess, that makes her magnificent.