krezkredo: The Nocturnal Blitz Grinder
Some players open with theory. krezkredo opens with a credo: wall up with the Scandinavian, swing the queen around like a wrecking ball, never resign on time, and never, under any circumstances, schedule chess before noon. Active since March 2017, krezkredo has piled up more than 10,300 rated games, roughly 95% of them blitz, making this one of the most persistent careers in the fast-clock underworld.
- Preferred time control: blitz, overwhelmingly (about 9,800 games and counting)
- Peak blitz rating: 2414 (2026-09-16), set in September 2026
- Signature weapon: the Scandinavian Defense, played over 2,200 times
- Danger zone: midnight, where the win rate climbs past 51%
The Long Game: Nine Years of Blitz
The career arc reads like a soap opera with a late-season twist. The March 2017 debut posted a provisional 1912, which April immediately corrected down to 1468. May answered with 172 games and a rebound past 2000, establishing the early krezkredo ethos: if you must collapse, do it quickly, then outplay the collapse.
What followed was a marathon plateau in the low 2000s from 2017 through 2023, interrupted by a 2019 teaser run to 2228 and the infamous September 2022 stretch of 21 games, 1 win, and 20 losses. The all-time low is a 19-game losing streak; the all-time high is an 11-game heater. Then everything clicked in 2024: ratings pushed into the 2300s, triple-digit monthly game counts became routine, and by 2026 krezkredo was peaking at 2414 while playing more than ever. A current three-game skid suggests the next chapter is already loading.
Opening Repertoire: The d4 Diet and the Scandinavian Wall
As White, the repertoire report card contains exactly one letter: d. In 2026, 724 of 725 games began 1.d4, feeding a steady diet of the mischievous Amazon Attack and its Siberian Attack offshoot, the Rapport-Jobava System, Czech and Australian setups, and assorted Benoni gambit invitations. The sleeper hit at volume is the Burn Variation of the French Defense, good for a 53% score across 505 blitz games and a sparkling 59.8% clip in 2026. Dutch and Old Benoni experiments fill out the black-side menu, but there is really one religion here.
That religion is the Scandinavian Defense: 2,244 of 2,245 Scandinavian games came from the black side, and it still collects about 42% of the points despite every opponent seeing it a mile away. Below, the signature start, thousands of games deep.
Rivals: The Nemesis and the Mirror
Every long career needs a villain, and krezkredo found one in davs_85. The head-to-head ledger is less a rivalry than a subscription: 536 games, 75 wins, 423 losses, 38 draws, and both parties keep queueing up anyway. Whether that is devotion, optimism, or a hostage situation, no one involved is telling.
For contrast, the chess gods supplied artaksargsian: 242 games split perfectly down the middle at 110-110 with 22 draws, the single most balanced file in the archive. Other recurring dance partners, by W-L-D record:
- gugushik: 36-50-4 over 90 games
- Artak Manukyan: 10-39-3 over 52 games
- karenmnatsakanyan87: 12-4-2, the rare matchup where krezkredo does the bullying
- rajivpd: 10-7-1
Style: Comebacks, Endgames, and Almost No Checkmates
Statistically, krezkredo is a comeback artist and an endgame dweller. Blitz games average more than 60 moves, the first capture typically waits until move 5 or 6, and roughly 64% of games wander into the endgame phase where patience gets paid. The comeback rate sits at 89%, dropping a piece still leaves a 41% chance of losing the game entirely, resignation is nearly extinct at a 1.2% rate, and only 2.3% of defeats are blowouts. Losing to krezkredo usually means earning it.
The check stats are their own comedy special. Across 10,328 analyzed games, krezkredo delivered checkmate in 0.55% of them. The annual ledgers from 2017 through 2025 log literally zero checkmates delivered; the 2026 surge finally bumped that to 3.9%, suggesting the climb to 2400 included a tutorial on trapping kings. Career total: 57 checkmate wins, about one for every 77 victories. Everything else was won by resignation, the clock, or an opponent simply drifting offline, which might be the most online-chess outcome imaginable. Meanwhile the queen has checked 10,361 times, the undisputed favorite tool for asking questions.
Beyond Blitz: Bullet, Rapid, Daily
Bullet was a 2017 phase: 520 games and a peak of 2230 in October of that year, after which the format was quietly retired. Rapid stands at 2-6. Daily sits at 1-4, with the lone win arriving in the Benoni Gambit Accepted, meaning krezkredo is technically undefeated in that opening in that format forever. If the clock is not fast, krezkredo is only visiting.
The krezkredo Credo
Thousands of games later, the formula is unchanged: open with d4, check with the queen, hold the Scandinavian wall, resign only when mathematically deceased, and start no earlier than midnight. The name may look invented, but the credo is real, and the rating chart keeps grinding upward one hundred-game month at a time.