kolidromeno: Chess Player Profile
Meet kolidromeno, a rapid chess specialist who turned a December 2023 debut rating of 400 into a full-blown ascent through the ranks in roughly one month. With more than 4,000 games of hard-earned experience, a Rapid peak of 2087 (2025-08-29), and a stubborn streak a mile wide, kolidromeno has built a profile that reads less like a highlight reel and more like a survival story written in pawns.
From Debut to Danger Zone
The journey began humbly: 400 rating, 7 games, a whole lot of questions. Then January 2024 happened. Two hundred plus games and one astronomical climb later, kolidromeno arrived in the 1800s and basically never left. The
tells the full saga, complete with the inevitable "one more game at midnight" detours. The overall record? 1,982 wins, 1,909 losses, and 140 draws, which is about as balanced as a chess life gets.Opening Doctrine: 1.e4, Relentlessly
As White, kolidromeno plays 1.e4 with the discipline of a metronome. In 2026, the logs show 548 games starting with 1.e4 and exactly one mysterious 1.e3, a glitch in the matrix that presumably still keeps the player up at night. The repertoire is a grind-it-out buffet:
- The Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation is the workhorse, played nearly 400 times and treated like an old, argumentative friend. Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation
- The French Defense: Advance Variation follows close behind, with a respectable 51.52% win rate as White. French Defense
- The Caro-Kann Defense is the crown jewel: 174 games as White at 56.9%, proof that the allegedly boring Caro-Kann can be a highly profitable business. Caro-Kann Defense
- With Black, the Benoni Gambit Accepted gets played 198 times, because giving up a pawn on move two is apparently a lifestyle. Benoni Gambit Accepted
Playing Style: The Human Fortress
If chess had a title for "most likely to defend a worse position with a straight face," kolidromeno would hold it. An 80.85% endgame frequency means four out of five games wander deep into the endgame, where kolidromeno grinds happily at an average of 71 moves per win. Even the losses are epics, averaging 89 moves: endgame
The numbers that really raise eyebrows: an 83.85% comeback rate, a 45.96% win rate after losing a piece, and a checkmate-vs-resignation split that borders on heroic. Opponents have resigned 1,301 times against kolidromeno. In return? Just 144 resignations across 1,900 plus losses. Everything else ended on the board. Down material against kolidromeno is not a result, it is merely the cover charge. checkmate
The Fishta Files: A One-Sided Rivalry
Every hero needs a villain, and fishta_migjeni has volunteered enthusiastically. The head-to-head stands at 21 games with a crushing 3 wins and 18 losses, making fishta_migjeni the single biggest obstacle in the kolidromeno saga. Fittingly, the longest losing streak on record sits at 15 games, while the 19-game winning streak was assembled against everyone else. Balance will come. Or it will not. The games will be long either way.
Quirks, Habits, and Midnight Superstitions
- Best hour to play: midnight, with a 72.73% win rate. The witching hour belongs to kolidromeno.
- Favorite checking piece: the queen, deployed 3,863 times. Subtlety is for other people.
- Tilt factor of 15: cooler than a cucumber in a refrigerator, even after a 15-game losing streak.
- One-sided losses occur just 0.84% of the time. Every defeat is a knife fight, never a walkover.
- Beats lower-rated opponents 66.1% of the time, then bravely donates rating points back up the ladder.
- Wins 50.4% as White and 47.93% as Black, a gap so small it barely qualifies as an excuse.
Final Word
Some players win beautifully. kolidromeno wins persistently, usually past move 70, usually at midnight, and almost always with the opponent wondering why they did not just accept the draw offer that was never coming. A rapid chess loyalist, an endgame machine, and a dedicated supplier of wins to fishta_migjeni, kolidromeno is living proof that in chess, the finest weapon is simply refusing to go away.