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.
Quick visualization:
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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