Clement Sreeves FM

Overview

Clement Sreeves is a FIDE Master known for fast, uncompromising play and an appetite for tactical complications. A seasoned blitz specialist, Clement climbed steadily from casual daily games in 2009 to a blistering peak in late 2021. Friends (and victims) often call him a "calculated comet" — he explodes quickly and leaves the board a little cleaner than he found it.

• Title: FIDE Master
• Preferred time control: Blitz
• Active online since: 2009 (daily) with major blitz activity through 2020–2021
• Career blitz record (summary): 444 wins, 277 losses, 61 draws

Career highlights

Clement's blitz trajectory shows a clear late-career surge culminating in a nearly 2500 blitz high. He converted long practice streaks into results, turning blitz into his signature arena.

• Reached a blistering peak of 2498 (2021-12-13) (Blitz) in December 2021.
• Notable surge between 2020–2021, moving from ~2400 to the 2498 peak across many rapid-fire games.
• Prolific: hundreds of rated blitz games with strong win rates versus similarly rated opponents.
• Strong matchups against regular opponents like mikeygroves and oswald123 — see profiles: Mikey Groves, oswald123.

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Playing style & favorite openings

Clement prefers sharp, dynamic positions where calculation and intuition decide the day. He often steers games into complex middlegames and is comfortable playing long endgames.

• Endgame frequency: 80.1% — Clement finishes a lot of long fights.
• Avg moves per win: ~71; avg moves per loss: ~84 — marathon games are his comfort zone.
• White win rate: 61.92% · Black win rate: 52.58% — productive with either color.

Most successful blitz openings and lines (sample):

• Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation — excellent results (high win rate)
• Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Yugoslav Attack — a go-to sharp battleground
• Four Knights Game — surprisingly strong practical score
• Sicilian Defense: Four Knights Variation, Cobra Variation — top win rate in sample
• Ruy Lopez: Closed — frequently played, tested in long games

Notable streaks & opponents

Clement's results show both hot streaks and the resilience that comes from playing many decisive games.

• Longest winning streak: 14 games
• Current winning streak: 4 games
• Longest losing streak: 7 games
• Most-played opponents (sample): dragnaros (20), kabulboy (18), mikeygroves (17), coachric (14), jonarice (13)
• Head-to-head highlights: strong records versus mikeygroves and oswald123 — see Mikey Groves and oswald123 for details.

Psychology, habits & quirky stats

Clement is the kind of player who thrives in the early-morning blitz (and sometimes pays for midnight experiments).

• Best time of day to play: around 06:00 (surprisingly lethal)
• Tilt factor (self-reported metric): 7 — can get spicy after losses, but bounces back
• Early resignation rate: 35% — when he sees trouble, he sometimes spares both kings the pain
• Comeback & win-after-losing-piece metrics are low — Clement prefers to avoid giving material away in the first place.

Study aids & a puzzle (PGN snippet)

Want to peek at Clement's kind of middlegame fireworks? Here's a compact illustrative blitz sequence (autoplay omitted):

Study the opening and watch how tactical chances appear after 9...a6 and 12...b4 — classic blitz complications.

Final notes & where to find more

Clement Sreeves is a model of how focused blitz practice can produce elite-level short-time-control play. He pairs long-game stamina with a sharp opening repertoire — and the results speak for themselves.

• Prefer watching trends? Try the embedded blitz rating chart above:
• Curious about specific opponents? Open profiles for frequent rivals: Mikey Groves, jonarice, Murad Abdulla
• Interested in a term or opening? Jump to the reference: Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation

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