Player Profile: haloooidoo
Meet haloooidoo, a relentless rapid chess warrior whose rating journey reads like a rollercoaster through the strategic wilderness of chess.com. Starting the year 2024 with a modest rapid rating around the 200s, haloooidoo quickly escalated to a peak rating of 863 in April 2025, proving that slow and steady isn't the only way to win the race—sometimes, it's speed and a little bit of chaos.
Rating and Performance Highlights
- Rapid Chess: Over 2,700 games played with a near-even split of wins and losses (1,339 wins to 1,298 losses and 113 draws). Clearly, every match is a battle to the last piece.
- Peak Rating: 863 in Rapid (April 2025) and a perfect 400 in Daily chess.
- Opening Strategies: A versatile opener, favoring the Clemenz Opening with a 51% win rate and the Reti Opening Queenside Fianchetto Variation boasting a striking 54.6% win rate. Whoever said fianchetto is just for show clearly hasn't seen haloooidoo in action.
Playing Style & Psychological Insights
With an early resignation rate hovering under 7%, haloooidoo fights until the end, often pushing games well past the mid-50 move mark. The average winning games last nearly 66 moves—proof that patience, endurance, and probably a little caffeine power those victories.
Endgames are a common battlefield, tackled 62.6% of the time, and with a comeback rate of an impressive 75.6%, haloooidoo is the kind of player who dances on the edge of defeat and often turns the music around.
Psyche-wise, haloooidoo’s tilt factor is relatively mild (9 out of 100), though the player seems to hit peak performance in the witching hour—especially around 1 AM when the stars align for tactical brilliance.
Fun Facts & Recent Battles
Despite not shying away from tough opponents, haloooidoo has amassed an impressive - and hilariously uneven - set of results against the community: from 100% win rates against players like jaegikeller and sknirala99, to 0% against others like zholaman-87. Destiny's favorite child or chessboard wild card? You decide.
One of the most recent dramatic victories came when haloooidoo ended a tense game by resignation against Sameemo92 wielding the Clemenz Opening like a seasoned sorcerer. This match lasted under 20 moves but left spectators jaws on the floor.
Not everything is sunshine and checkmates though—losses sometimes come abruptly, as in the bizarre game against Zholaman-87, where a swift checkmate left no room for comeback. Such is the life of a chess gladiator.
In Summary
haloooidoo is a fiercely competitive, strategically eclectic, and sometimes unpredictably wild player. Their journey through chess ratings is a testament to grit, wit, and the occasional gamble. If you ever face them across the virtual board, be ready for a battle of wits, an unpredictable opening, and a late-night fight to the finish.
Here's to more checkmates, thrilling comebacks, and maybe a little less resignation — but where’s the fun in that?
🆚 Opponent Insights
| Most Played Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| daffi0 | 22W / 15L / 4D | |
| pororopoh232 | 15W / 12L / 1D | |
| dk_roof | 7W / 7L / 0D | |
| aaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnn | 3W / 5L / 1D | |
| kasnova | 2W / 5L / 1D | |
Rating
| Year | Bullet | Blitz | Rapid | Daily |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 863 | 400 | ||
| 2024 | 703 | 400 |
Stats by Year
| Year | White | Black | Moves |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 161W / 138L / 12D | 153W / 156L / 5D | 60.1 |
| 2024 | 524W / 499L / 46D | 502W / 507L / 50D | 61.3 |
Openings: Most Played
| Rapid Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kings Fianchetto Opening | 499 | 235 | 233 | 31 | 47.1% |
| Clemenz Opening | 481 | 245 | 222 | 14 | 50.9% |
| Kings Pawn Opening St George Defense | 367 | 183 | 176 | 8 | 49.9% |
| Owens Defense | 296 | 134 | 150 | 12 | 45.3% |
| Reti Opening Queenside Fianchetto Variation | 119 | 65 | 46 | 8 | 54.6% |
| Queens Pawn Opening St George Defense | 92 | 41 | 48 | 3 | 44.6% |
| Van t Kruijs Opening | 72 | 38 | 33 | 1 | 52.8% |
| English Defense | 63 | 25 | 32 | 6 | 39.7% |
| Nimzowitsch Larsen Attack Modern Variation | 59 | 29 | 29 | 1 | 49.1% |
| Modern Defense with | 48 | 23 | 23 | 2 | 47.9% |
| Daily Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kings Fianchetto Opening Indian Defense | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Kings Pawn Opening St George Defense | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Kings Fianchetto Opening | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
🔥 Streaks
| Streak | Longest | Current |
|---|---|---|
| Winning | 9 | 2 |
| Losing | 9 | 0 |