Mavifirtina: FIDE Master of the Blitz Board
Mavifirtina is a FIDE Master who treats blitz chess less like a hobby and more like a calling. Since first appearing online in January 2020 at a modest 1610 blitz rating, Mavifirtina has logged roughly 8,500 blitz games and climbed all the way to a peak of 2882 (2026-08-06). That is a gain of well over a thousand points, achieved the honest way: one long grind at a time.
The Great Climb
The journey from 1610 upward was paved with 1.e4, repetition and a refusal to stay down. By the end of 2021 the blitz rating had pushed past 2600, and the ceiling kept rising through 2026. It was not all smooth sailing, though: the same account that once ripped off 16 straight wins also dropped 21 in a row, a tidy reminder that the rating ladder giveth and the rating ladder taketh.
Openings and Style
Mavifirtina opens with 1.e4 in the vast majority of thousands of games. The soulmate opening, however, is the Caro-Kann Defense, the most played line on the account with nearly 600 blitz battles. As White, the Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation has been a steady money maker at a 53.6% win rate across 300 games, while the Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon is the black side weapon of choice. For special occasions there is always the Vienna Gambit.
These are marathon games, not sprints. The average win runs about 81 moves and an endgame appears in 86% of games, so out-grinding opponents deep into the night is very much the brand. The queen is the favorite piece for delivering checks. And when a position is truly lost, Mavifirtina resigns early 58% of the time, a polite tap-out opponents can appreciate. When the position is merely bad, the comeback rate north of 92% suggests plenty of "lost" games were nothing of the sort.
Rivals, Victims and One Nemesis
Every blitz grinder keeps receipts, and these are fascinating. The record against sorosh1388 stands at an absurd 25-1, essentially a personal highlight reel. Against Vjacheslav Weetik the tables turn brutally at 8-19, proof that chess humbles everyone eventually. Long running series with Sudhanshu Ranjan and Paul Szuper have each reached 39 games, while Volodymyr Molyboha has been handled with relative ease at 15-5.
Fun Facts
- Best hour to play: 1 a.m., with a 63.6% win rate. Actual midnight, by contrast, produces a 25% win rate, so the figurative witching hour works but the literal one does not.
- Amazon Attack: Siberian Attack games keep landing at a 42% win rate, yet they keep happening. True love is complicated.
- Rapid chess has been attempted 24 times for 7 wins and 17 losses, after which the rapid rating was respectfully left to rest.
- The 1.e4 devotion runs deep: in one single year it was played over 1,000 times while d4 managed just 47 appearances.
- Whoever checks first usually wins here: the win rate after delivering the first check sits near 53%, but falls to 38% when getting checked first.
- Against lower rated opposition Mavifirtina feasts at nearly 69%, while higher rated opponents remain the great wall of chess.
The Bottom Line
FIDE Master title, thousands of online blitz games, a peak near the very top of the blitz world and a healthy respect for a good rivalry: Mavifirtina is proof that showing up daily, trusting your openings and knowing exactly when to resign is a perfectly legitimate path to chess greatness.