MasterAlzn: The Rapid Specialist With a Restless Queen
MasterAlzn is a chess player whose heart belongs to Rapid. While plenty of club players chase bullet adrenaline or grind out correspondence games over days, MasterAlzn keeps coming back to the ten minute-ish sweet spot, where there is just enough time to think and just enough pressure to panic. It is the time control the account keeps returning to, and the one where the results have climbed the highest.
The Rapid record sits at a remarkably symmetrical 348 wins, 345 losses and 21 draws, which is either proof of beautifully balanced matchmaking or evidence that MasterAlzn refuses to make life easy in either direction. The peak mark of 602 (2025-08-10) arrived on 10 August 2025, a small summit reached after years of steady climbing.
A Marathon Runner in Blitz Clothing
If Rapid is the love, Blitz is the day job. Over four and a half thousand Blitz games have been logged, with a record of 2,158 wins, 2,179 losses and 150 draws. That is a difference of twenty one games across more than four thousand battles, which is either astonishing consistency or the chess equivalent of a perfectly balanced set of scales.
The rating graph tells the story of a player who keeps coming back for more: a long, bumpy climb with more switchbacks than a mountain road.
A Repertoire With a Mind of Its Own
As White, MasterAlzn is a 1.d4 loyalist, with the occasional 1.e4 thrown in when the mood shifts. The favourite weapon is the Amazon Attack, the cheeky 1.d4 d5 2.Qd3 setup that develops the queen before the minor pieces have even found their coats. It has been deployed over a thousand times in Blitz alone, producing a respectable 50.63 percent score. The Siberian Attack branch of the same family also appears regularly, suggesting a genuine fondness for early queen activity.
White's other hobbies include the Australian Defense, the gloriously stubborn Barnes Defense, the London System in its Poisoned Pawn guise, and the enterprising Amar Gambit, which offers a pawn in exchange for interesting times.
With the black pieces the repertoire is led by the Scandinavian Defense, which has appeared in over 700 Blitz games and remains the trusty first choice against 1.e4. The Alekhine Defense has been surprisingly kind, while Petrov's Defense has been a houseguest who eats all the food and never leaves, producing a notably painful 37.58 percent score.
Familiar Faces Across the Board
No chess career is complete without a nemesis, and MasterAlzn has a proper one. The most frequent opponent by a wide margin is oliv64200, a rivalry that has run 119 games and sits at 66 wins, 49 losses and 4 draws in MasterAlzn's favour, close enough that every rematch matters.
Then there is Frankdekok, a reliable source of cheer at 26 wins from 32 games, and EmDubMcVey, who has apparently made it a personal mission to ruin the party with a 16 to 2 record. Every repertoire needs a nemesis, and this one has been found.
Style of Play: Checks, Comebacks and a Very Busy Queen
Across more than 5,500 analysed games, MasterAlzn has delivered 17,411 checks while receiving 11,245, a ratio that says everything about the approach. The queen is the primary instrument of persuasion, responsible for over 7,000 of those checks, followed by rooks and bishops. First capture tends to arrive around move five, which is a polite way of saying that patience is not the headline virtue here.
- Comeback rate of 69.72%, meaning a lost piece is treated as a temporary inconvenience rather than a resignation note.
- Early resignation rate of just 7.86%, so games are fought to the end even when the position is quietly sobbing.
- 42 wins against only 9 losses on time, a reminder that the clock is a piece too.
- The 13:00 hour produces the best results, which is useful information for anyone scheduling a grudge match.
Signature Position
A typical MasterAlzn game starts with the d-pawn and the early queen deployment, an approach with more attitude than theory. Here is the flavour of it:
It is not the quietest way to play chess, but it is unmistakably MasterAlzn: direct, a little provocative, and always willing to hand the opponent a difficult afternoon.