Дима Зайцев (Golazzoo): Bullet Chess Specialist and Vienna Gambit Devotee
Meet Дима Зайцев, known to opponents everywhere as Golazzoo. Since his first rated games in August 2018, he has played more than 17,000 games of bullet chess, piling up 8,129 wins, 8,435 losses and 747 draws, a lifetime record balanced so precisely it looks deliberate. This is a man who does not fear ratings, does not rotate openings, and does not appear to sleep at reasonable hours. He plays. Constantly. At speed.
The chart above is the whole career in one image: a climb from the mid-1600s to a 2155 peak within his first 18 months, years of warfare in the 2000 to 2200 zone, a mysterious two-year sabbatical after early 2022, and a triumphant 2024 return capped by a career best bullet rating of 2307 (2024-08-24) in August 2024. As of late 2026 he is back in the thick of it, riding a seven game winning streak with no visible intention of resting.
The Vienna Gambit: One Opening, Nearly a Thousand Bullet Games
Golazzoo is what happens when a player picks a favorite opening and simply never lets go. As White he has opened with 1.e4 in about 99 percent of recorded games, and the Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense is his faithful companion, played nearly 1,000 times in bullet with a 54 percent win rate and a scorching 69 percent in 2026. Opponents who try to sidestep it with the Scandinavian Defense, the Caro-Kann or the French receive the same treatment every time: gambit, attack, flag, repeat.
The loyal start, five plies of pure muscle memory:
Life as Black: The Sicilian Defense Problem
On the black side of the board, romance gives way to struggle. The Sicilian Defense, particularly the Closed variation, has been his heaviest burden: 777 bullet games with a win rate barely above 40 percent. The Accelerated Dragon treats him more kindly, and the Alapin merely annoys him. Most gloriously, opponents have trotted out the Barnes Defense, 1...f6, almost 500 times against him, and the fact that it scores about 51 percent against his repertoire is the single most quietly insulting number in his entire file.
Rivals, Nemeses and the Long Feud
Nearly 20,000 games build relationships, and Golazzoo has plenty. amer01 is his most frequent dance partner at 106 meetings, with Dima holding a slim 54-46-6 edge. Zsolt-Attila Sipos has absorbed 54 losses in 95 games, and MKR77 exists mainly to restore his confidence at 41-19-5. Then there is 77_faucon, the arch nemesis of the file: 89 games, 32 wins, 53 defeats, a deficit that surely powers some of those midnight sessions. beginner424 also holds a winning record, proof that chess usernames cannot always be believed.
The 1 AM Theory: When Golazzoo Is Most Dangerous
The performance logs read like a sleep study nobody asked for. His win rate peaks at 1 AM, where he takes 56 percent of games, then slides into a mid-30s collapse by 4 AM, either from fatigue or from the harsh morning light exposing everything. Wednesday is his most productive day, Sunday his worst, and his tilt factor of just 11 means even a brutal flag-fall costs him roughly a tenth of a sigh. Strangest of all, his rated win rate runs 44 percentage points below his casual rate, so even a 17,000 game veteran feels the pressure when points are on the line.
Style: Resilient Endgame Grinder With a Lightning Mouse Hand
About 84 percent of his games reach the endgame, where his wins average 72 moves of patient hunting. His defining statistic is an 86 percent comeback rate: lose a piece against Golazzoo and you have merely made things interesting, because he still wins nearly 45 percent of games after dropping material. He resigns early in only 20 percent of games, lands a checkmate in about 14 percent of everything he plays, and wins thousands more on time, because in bullet chess the clock is just another piece to be attacked.
Golazzoo by the Numbers
- Longest winning streak: 21 games, with a current run of 7 still alive.
- Longest losing streak: only 11 games, which in bullet terms is practically composure.
- Rapid chess: 26 wins against 3 losses. Slow the clock down and he becomes nearly unbeatable.
- Daily chess: 2 wins against 6 losses. Remove the clock entirely and the superpower vanishes.
- September 2021: 1,290 bullet games in one month, an average of 43 per day, lunch presumably optional.
- Peak blitz rating: 2313, set during a flawless 11-0 sprint in November 2020.
- Favorite checking piece: the queen, delivered over 16,900 times, because subtlety is a luxury of slower time controls.
In short, Dima Zaitsev is a bullet chess grinder of legendary volume, a devoted Vienna Gambit player, a nocturnal competitor who peaks at 1 AM, and a comeback artist who treats lost material as a starting point. If you face Golazzoo online, bring a clock you are prepared to defend, and consider scheduling the match for 4 AM.