Jacques Fredette

Jacques Fredette: The Daily Chess Ironman

Some players study openings. Some players grind puzzles. Jacques Fredette, known on the board as locvim, chose a third path: simply play more Daily chess than most humans play in a lifetime. With over 31,000 Daily games to his name, Jacques has turned correspondence-style chess into a full-contact sport, one move at a time, often after midnight, because his stats reveal a man whose win rate peaks at 00:00. The midnight oil burns bright, and it burns for chess.