Le Fil: Speed Chess Artist, Bullet Warrior
Le Fil, known online as Luq27, is an International Master with a serious taste for chaos. The profile may say Rapid, but the server logs tell a different story: thousands of games played at lightspeed by a player who thrives when the clock is loud and the moves are faster.
Fast and Fearless
Le Fil climbed to 2603 (2021-02-22) in bullet and pushed his blitz ratings into the 2600s. His adjusted blitz win rate sits near 62 percent, which is a scary number for anyone sitting on the other side of the board.
[[Charet|Rating|Bullet|2020-2024]]The stats reveal a player who never goes gentle into the night. He once won 14 straight games and once lost 11, which is the kind of highwired lifestyle that online bullet chess demands.
Stylish and Stubborn
Le Fil likes the weird roads. With White, he is happy to steer into the Nimzo-Larsen Attack and score above 51 percent. With Black, he enters the Sicilian Defense with real confidence, and in blitz his Cobra Variation in the Four Knights has been a certified weapon.
His games last a long time. The average win takes nearly 79 moves, and he recovers from losing positions at a 79.19 percent rate. This is not a player who folds early.
[[Charet|WinRateByOpening]]Signature Repertoire
Le Fil's opening shelf is a museum of curiosities. He has played the Australian Defense, the Benoni Gambit Accepted, and the Slav Bonet Gambit. Some of these choices are brilliant, some are brave, and a few are just deliciously dangerous.
His one known weak spot is the Döry Defense, where he has around a 33 percent win rate. And yet he returns to it again and again, which suggests either deep conviction or a very good sense of humor.
A Rivalry for the Ages
No story of Le Fil is complete without Never_walk_alone . The pair have played 96 bullet games, dead level at 44 wins apiece and 8 draws. That is the closest thing online chess has to a perfect rivalry.
Clock Quirks
- Le Fil's best hour is 22:00, when his win rate jumps to about 73 percent.
- He loses a large share of bullet games on time, proof that he respects the clock even when it betrays him.
- Saturdays and Tuesdays have been kind; Sundays have not.