Meet HenriqueFolc: Bullet Chess Ironman
Henrique Fernandes de Oliveira Cavalcante, known to the leaderboard as HenriqueFolc, is the kind of player who does not study chess so much as live inside it. In a single year he stacked up more than 5,500 bullet games, a workload suggesting his mouse deserves hazard pay. His listed preference is Blitz, and the small sample backs him up: 11 wins, 2 losses, and a peak of 2121 (2025-03-21). The thousands of bullet games are, one assumes, just warmup laps.
Opening Repertoire: The 1.d3 Lifestyle
As White, Henrique has pushed 1.d3 an astonishing 2,745 times, waving goodbye to mainstream theory and steering play toward his beloved Amar Gambit, good for over 3,000 bullet games and a 53.7% score. With the black pieces he trusts the Czech Defense, the Modern Defense (a personal-best 54.9% win rate), and the Philidor Defense. The archives also mention a Colle variation whose name is redacted from the record, played to an eerily perfect 50% across 88 games. Either classified preparation or an elaborate prank, and honestly both are on brand.
Playing Style: Built for the Long Haul
These are marathons, not sprints. Endgames appear in 77.5% of his games and the average win runs about 68 moves. The personality stats read like a motivational poster:
- Early resignation rate of 1.57%, meaning he essentially never quits
- A 93% comeback rate, plus a 52% win rate even after dropping a piece
- Longest winning streak of 16 games, with a 9-game heater still running
- 1,403 wins on time, making him a certified clock tormentor, and 929 by checkmate for the purists
- 5,064 queen checks delivered, because subtlety is for classical players
Peak Hour: 2 AM
The hourly data is a portrait of a night owl: a 64.2% win rate at 2 AM, a mysterious collapse to 45.7% at 3 AM, then a full rebound to 62.4% by 4 AM. Add a tilt factor of just 13 and a casual-game edge of nearly 38 points, and you get a friendly, unflappable vampire of the chessboard.
Rivalries and Recurring Victims
Every grinder has a regular cast. vickys78 has been held to a 20-9 scoreline across 29 meetings, D-Rookie trails 15-5, and tolisvk stands locked at a dead-even 15-15 through 30 duels, one of the great online chess rivalries of the age. Somewhere out there, a rematch is always loading.
The 2025 Campaign
The year saw the bullet rating climb steadily through nightly sessions, topping out at 2230 (2025-12-01). Meanwhile, his entire rapid career consists of exactly one game and one loss, a Philidor Defense he would presumably prefer we not mention. Too late. For fans of bullet chess, offbeat openings, and endgame grinders who simply refuse to lose, HenriqueFolc is a profile worth bookmarking.