GreyMetric: FIDE Master with a Bullet Habit
GreyMetric is a FIDE Master who has chosen a life of speed. While other titled players sip tea over long classical endgames, GreyMetric plays bullet chess the way other people check email: constantly, obsessively, and with thousands of games to show for it. Their bullet peak towers at 3051 (2026-08-11), and the title beside the username is no accident.
The Bullet Grinder
Bullet is home. Within a single year, GreyMetric climbed from the mid-2500s to beyond the 3000 mark, one heart-pounding minute at a time, with a blitz rating that also crossed 3000 along the way. That is not a hot streak, that is an identity.
Opening Repertoire: Dragon Slayer by Trade
As Black, GreyMetric has turned the Sicilian Dragon into a business. The Yugoslav Attack, the sharpest of anti-Dragon weapons, scores them a 54.8% win rate across more than 400 blitz games, which is the statistical equivalent of saying "please bring this opening to me". In bullet, the Scandinavian Defense quietly banks a 57.8% win rate.
As White, they keep things respectable with the Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation, played over 400 times at a hair above 51%. A taste of what awaits Dragon players who dare:
Nemesis Watch
Every grinder has a rogues' gallery. Fever_Code and GreyMetric have traded 71 games, with fever_code holding the narrowest of edges. Lucas Liascovich has been outright cruel, winning 39 of 65 meetings. Meanwhile TheArcticCold is the rare matchup GreyMetric actually wins, 25-23-4, proof that the composure stays intact when it matters most.
Style and Strange Habits
- Endgame frequency of 84.66%: GreyMetric does not do cheap fireworks, they do slow strangulation.
- A comeback rate of 86.85%: count them out at your own risk.
- A 77% early resignation rate: when they are lost, they know it, and they tap out with monastic honesty.
- Tilt factor of just 12: emotionally, this player is a swimming pool, still and unfazed.
- Win rate after losing a piece of 40.1%: a material deficit is, to them, merely a suggestion.
- Best hour to play: 10:00 in the morning. If you meet them at 5 AM or on a Sunday, bring a cushion.
By the Numbers
- 7,137 queen checks delivered: Her Majesty is also the doorbell they ring nonstop.
- Opponents check them 3.07 times per game versus 2.67 the other way: even the database picks on them.
- 324 wins by checkmate, because some deaths are best delivered personally.
- First capture usually around move seven: polite for six moves, then the grabbing begins.
- e4 opened 3,198 games against just 326 games of d4: the queen's pawn is basically a formality.
- Longest winning streak: 20 games. The 12-game losing streak has been wiped from memory and, presumably, from the cloud.