lovethatjoker: The F-pawn Life of the Party
If you invite lovethatjoker to a chess game, you are inviting someone who treats the opening theory like a buffet: they will likely grab the same dish anyway. With more than 48,000 rated games behind the board, lovethatjoker is a Blitz marathon runner disguised as a practical joker. The name says fun, and the stats say "fun, but make it 90 moves and a very patient clock."
Their profile flags Bullet as a preferred time control, but the record shows a serious relationship with long, messy online chess. Put the whole arc on one chart and it is a ride worth the cover charge:
.One Opening to Love Them All
As White, the answer is almost always the Bird Opening. You can open a beloved database and find over 13,000 games where lovethatjoker starts with 1.f4 and invites everyone to have opinions. The Dutch Variation is especially familiar, with nearly 9,400 games built on the same f-pawn foundation. There are also side trips to the Nimzo-Larsen Attack and the strange Amazon Attack, but the Bird is the lodestar.
As Black, the message is also loud: the Alekhine Defense is the default response, played more than 9,000 times in Blitz alone. When lovethatjoker meets 1.e4, the knight leaps early and the rest of the board can prepare for chaos. The opening mix has a shape all its own, and the numbers behind it make a nice slideshow:
.Marathon Mode
To call lovethatjoker fearless might be an understatement. They have a longest winning streak of 18 and a longest losing streak of 15, so the graph is rarely flat. Their games are not distant either: the average decisive battle goes past 90 moves, and they land in the endgame surprisingly often. When some players ask for a bullet and leave, lovethatshould (which feels wrong) stay and work the endgame.
At their most busy, they played more than 3,300 Blitz games in a single month. That is not mere activity; that is a lifestyle. The chart is a tall sight:
Rivals and Running Characters
Every busy player has familiar faces, and lovethatjoker has a long list of them. Albano Cuevas is the most played opponent with about 170 meetings, while 2011KING shows up just behind at 157 and makes everything feel like a neighborhood match. Add Toomas Valgmae with over 120 games and twitter user Yasser Quesada Perez appears repeatedly, often with a scoreline that the Joker probably wants to discuss.
Even when the standings hurt, lovethatjoker seems to return. They have met Yasser Quesada Perez more than 100 times, which is not smart chess, it sociology.
What the Numbers Say at 3 a.m.
- Best hour of day: 03:00, when the f-pundo arrives.
- Comeback rate: 81.2, so a bad opening is not the end of the story.
- Victory after losing a piece: over 40 percent, meaning the "joker" never means a lost piece.
- The king had no favorite day, but Sunday and Wednesday treat them well.
In the end, lovethatjoker is the odd player of online chess: a friend of the Bird Opening, a regular in the Alekhine Defense, and a recurring guest in others' games. They play to finish, with a bit of humor and a lot of 1.f4.