Profile: harryhenri
Once an eager knight just learning to jump over pawns, harryhenri has since blossomed into a resilient blitz battler with a knack for surviving chaotic positions and pulling off thrilling comebacks. With a peak blitz rating of 1217 and rapid rating soaring as high as 1562, harryhenri has proven that speed and cunning make an excellent combination—especially when the clock is ticking.
Playing Style & Strengths
Known for a modest early resignation rate of about 7%, harryhenri prefers to wrestle things out to the bitter end, culminating in an impressive average of over 52 moves per winning game. Their game often reaches engaging endgames, with nearly half of their battles progressing to those tense final stages. Armed with a comeback rate of 63%, harryhenri rarely throws in the towel, and their tenacity shines brightest after a lost piece, maintaining nearly a 33% win rate in such precarious moments.
Stats Snapshot
- Total Blitz Games: 1250, with a win rate of 41.12%
- Total Rapid Games: 297, battling out a slightly tougher field with a 27.27% win rate
- Bullet? Only 17 games, but hey, always room to grow!
Noteworthy Achievements
- Holds an epic longest winning streak of 21 games—because who doesn’t love a good hot streak?
- Survived a brutal longest losing streak of 40 games, bouncing back stronger every time.
- Enjoys playing blitz most, especially shining around 10 AM, so don’t challenge before coffee!
Fun Facts & Quirks
According to opponent stats, harryhenri seems to have an adorable love-hate relationship with some foes: while they have crushed evandro_barbosa only 4% of the time, they've maintained perfect records against many less familiar usernames. Clearly, a mysterious chess ninja in some matchups.
Also, harryhenri favors the ambiguous and stealthy "Top Secret" opening—probably to keep opponents guessing ("Wait, what opening was that?").
Recent Highlight
Recently, harryhenri demonstrated textbook technique by winning with a checkmate in a rapid game against AliceSimoes. Swift, decisive, and elegant—much like their style when a position calls for a quick finish.
Powered by passion, patience, and a pinch of mysterious "Top Secret" strategy, harryhenri continues to carve their path on the chessboard. Keep an eye on this rising tactician, because every piece moved reveals more of their strategic charm.
Feedback for harryhenri
Great work on your recent games! You’ve shown some promising tactical awareness and strong attacking skills, especially seeing how you’ve successfully delivered checkmates in several wins. Let’s look at some points to help you improve further:
Strengths:
- Attacking play: You effectively leverage pins, discovered attacks, and threats to gain an advantage and finish the game with precise checkmates.
- Opening fundamentals: Your choice of openings and development (e.g., playing natural moves like Nf3, d4, O-O) demonstrates solid understanding of opening principles.
- Endgame technique: You execute mating patterns efficiently, converting advantages in your favor and managing the clock well during critical moments.
Areas to Improve:
- Time management: Some losses were on time—try to balance between spending enough time on critical moves and maintaining a steady pace to avoid flagging.
- Defensive play: In a few games, there were missed defensive resources or weaknesses around your king. Work on spotting opponent’s threats quickly and reinforcing your position, especially in complex middlegames.
- Positional awareness: Sometimes capturing material can lead to tactical vulnerabilities (e.g., losing key defenders or falling into pins). Focus on ensuring that every capture or tactic doesn't open you to counterattack.
Suggestions for Training:
- Study common tactical motifs like pins, forks, discovered attacks, and mating nets that you encountered in your wins to understand why they worked so well!
- Practice endgames regularly to increase comfort with technical sequences and improve your confidence when converting an advantage.
- Try to analyze your losses to see exactly where the turning points were and how you could better defend or simplify the position.
- Work on your clock management by practicing longer time controls and learning how to use your time effectively in different phases of the game.
Keep it up!
You've made good progress, and with consistent practice focusing on the points above, you can continue improving your chess skill and results.
Here’s a quick look at your recent games for reference:
🆚 Opponent Insights
| Most Played Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| Evandro Amorim Barbosa | 9W / 219L / 2D | View Games |
| Dwlyan Santos | 7W / 98L / 8D | View Games |
| malucobeleza11 | 2W / 19L / 4D | View Games |
| chessdf2001 | 6W / 4L / 2D | View Games |
| henriquetm122118 | 4W / 4L / 0D | View Games |
Rating
| Year | Bullet | Blitz | Rapid | Daily |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1088 | 1339 | ||
| 2020 | 771 | 1046 | 1218 | |
| 2019 | 843 | 1064 | 997 | |
| 2018 | 843 | 1022 | 1127 | 792 |
| 2017 | 1083 | 663 | 1031 |
Stats by Year
| Year | White | Black | Moves |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7W / 4L / 0D | 10W / 0L / 2D | 73.1 |
| 2020 | 50W / 54L / 9D | 46W / 65L / 4D | 67.5 |
| 2019 | 45W / 209L / 9D | 40W / 160L / 8D | 53.9 |
| 2018 | 180W / 149L / 5D | 163W / 169L / 8D | 48.4 |
| 2017 | 34W / 49L / 4D | 23W / 54L / 5D | 41.0 |
Openings: Most Played
| Blitz Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sicilian Defense | 111 | 55 | 51 | 5 | 49.5% |
| Blackburne Shilling Gambit | 109 | 53 | 54 | 2 | 48.6% |
| Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Yugoslav Attack | 60 | 2 | 57 | 1 | 3.3% |
| Barnes Defense | 48 | 29 | 19 | 0 | 60.4% |
| Philidor Defense | 47 | 24 | 21 | 2 | 51.1% |
| Barnes Opening: Walkerling | 43 | 20 | 23 | 0 | 46.5% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 42 | 23 | 19 | 0 | 54.8% |
| Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation | 33 | 9 | 23 | 1 | 27.3% |
| Petrov's Defense | 32 | 23 | 9 | 0 | 71.9% |
| Elephant Gambit | 30 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 56.7% |
| Rapid Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Yugoslav Attack | 32 | 5 | 26 | 1 | 15.6% |
| Sicilian Defense | 17 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 41.2% |
| Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation | 16 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 18.8% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 33.3% |
| King's Indian Defense | 8 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon, Modern Bc4 Variation | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Closed | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 42.9% |
| Blackburne Shilling Gambit | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 57.1% |
| Sicilian Defense: Kan Variation, Knight Variation | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Philidor Defense | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 57.1% |
| Bullet Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scandinavian Defense | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Semi-Slav Defense: Bogoljubow Variation | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Taimanov Variation, Bastrikov Variation, English Attack | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Caro-Kann Defense | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| French Defense | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Australian Defense | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| French Defense: Tarrasch Variation, Botvinnik Variation | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Amar Gambit | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Italian Game: Classical Variation, Ghulam-Kassim Variation | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Daily Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Accelerated Dragon | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
🔥 Streaks
| Streak | Longest | Current |
|---|---|---|
| Winning | 21 | 2 |
| Losing | 40 | 0 |