Jan Roldan Oriendo (Gmnadlor): 42,000 Games and Still Playing 1.d4
The Player Behind the Username
Jan Roldan Oriendo, known to leaderboards everywhere as Gmnadlor, opened an online chess account in July 2014 and, by every available measure, never really logged out. The archive now lists more than 42,000 rated games, which stopped being a hobby somewhere around game 10,000 and has since matured into a standing appointment with the 64 squares.
The Bullet Machine
Jan's laboratory is bullet chess: 33,674 games of it, starting at 1407 in the summer of 2014 and grinding, one three-minute war at a time, to a peak of 2801 (2026-07-19) twelve years later. The journey features a 21-game winning streak, a 14-game losing streak for spiritual balance, and enough repetition to make a metronome jealous.
The clock deserves its own paragraph. Jan has won on time 110 times and lost on time 513 times, which makes the flag statistically the most successful opponent Jan has ever faced. Humans come and go. The clock remains undefeated at scale.
Rapid, the Quiet Assassin
Officially, Jan's preferred time control is rapid chess, and the results there are almost rude: a 17-2 record, with the only two defeats arriving in June 2020, and a peak of 2075 (2025-07-18) in July 2025. Bullet is played like a vending machine; Rapid is played like a machine that did the homework. If you want a fair fight, ask for it here. Then there is blitz: 8,546 games, 3,912 wins against 4,051 losses, plus 583 draws for the diplomats. Perfectly agonizing, nearly .500, commuter energy.
Opening Report Card
As White, Jan is a lifelong 1.d4 loyalist with more than 7,300 games logged in the Amazon Attack and its Siberian Attack branch, plus serious mileage in the Australian Defense and the gloriously chaotic Amar Gambit. There is also a London setup whose database label literally reads "London [redacted] Poisoned Pawn," which we can only assume is redacted for everyone's protection.
Black is a different mood. The Alekhine Defense has absorbed 1,348 bullet games and keeps things spicy, while the French Defense is a haunted house: the Classical Svenonius Variation sits at a 38.3% blitz win rate across some 375 attempts. Some doors you keep opening, expecting it to be different this time. The one flawless line lives in Rapid, where the Modern Defense: Pterodactyl Variation stands a perfect 4-0, a stat Jan is presumably insufferable about.
The Usual Suspects
A 42,000-game player does not fight strangers. grandemas has shared the board 322 times, with Jan leading the series 188-124-10, which is less a rivalry and more a long-running sitcom. Oleg Gamayev owns the reverse script: 166 meetings and an 83-75 edge. Then there is hannibal4, 140 games, 67 wins, 67 losses, 6 draws, a rivalry so perfectly balanced it belongs in a physics textbook. coachlouie sits at 52-52-2, because apparently symmetry is a lifestyle.
Style Notes: Read Before Challenging
- The Queen is the designated door knocker: 41,019 checks delivered, more by the Queen than any other piece, including a fearless 260 by the King itself, which is either bravery or a cry for help.
- Whoever checks first usually wins. Jan checks first 56.66% of the time, and the win rate drops under 40% when checked first. Timeliness matters.
- The first capture tends to land around move 8, and games average in the high 70s for moves, so clear the afternoon.
- Wins arrive around move 71; losses stretch to about 80, because apparently sorrow gets the extended director's cut.
- The comeback rate is 81.65%. Positions that look dead have a documented habit of standing back up.
- White scores 53%, Black 46.7%. Jan prefers to have the first word.
- Against lower-rated opposition, about 64% wins; against higher-rated players, near 30%. Results track the opponent almost suspiciously well.
- Best hour: 9 a.m. at 51.85%. Worst: midnight at 44.1%. Best day: Monday. Worst: Thursday. Schedule accordingly.
- A tilt factor of 14 means the 513 flag losses have, so far, failed to leave a mark. Impressive. Concerning, but impressive.
Final Scouting Report
Challenge at breakfast, on a Monday, in Rapid, and bring a plan that survives move 8. Do not drift into the Queen's crosshairs, do not trust the French, and whatever happens, do not start feeling safe around move 70. Twelve years and forty-two thousand games in, Jan Roldan Oriendo is still here, still playing 1.d4, and still just a little bit faster than your clock.