Mehdi Abbasi: The Blitz Soul Trapped in a Bullet Marathoner's Body
Every online chess platform has one player who simply never logs off. On this one, it is mehdi61abs. Since December 2024, Mehdi Abbasi has played roughly fourteen thousand games of bullet chess, a workload that turns a computer mouse into a consumable good. He describes himself as a blitz player at heart; his game log describes a man who found bullet chess and decided sleep was negotiable.
The trajectory is the fun part. He entered bullet rated a humble 570 and has ground, game after game after game, into the 2100s, peaking at 2271 (2026-08-15). The full climb is chronicled here:
1.e4, and Occasionally an Apology to d4
Mehdi arrived playing 1.d4, saw the error of his ways within a year, and became a devoted 1.e4 player. In 2026 he opened with e4 nearly three thousand times and with d4 exactly four times, apparently to prove he could quit whenever he wanted. His main weapons are the Scandinavian Defense and the Caro-Kann Defense, with the Najdorf Variation saved for special occasions. His quiet killer is the Four Knights Game, Spanish Variation, which has quietly eaten a 59% win rate over 461 bullet games. Opponents calling it boring have not yet shared that opinion with the scoreboard.
As Black, he has met the London System's Poisoned Pawn Variation nearly five hundred times and holds exactly even. The London never dies; it just changes usernames.
Playing Style: The Comeback Grinder
Mehdi does not really do shortcuts. His games reach the endgame about 77% of the time, and his average win runs about 74 moves long. His early resignation rate sits near 1%, which strongly suggests the resignation button is purely decorative on his setup. Even after dropping a full piece, he still wins over half his games, and his comeback rate is a comical 84.8%. He is almost never blown off the board: one-sided losses happen in barely 2% of games. His longest winning streak ran 19 games; his longest losing streak ran 16; his tilt factor is a chilly 16. Ice, in other words.
The Clock Is His Favorite Piece
Checkmate is optional for Mehdi. He has won more than three thousand bullet games on time, comfortably more than his thirteen hundred wins by actual mate. His queen is his most common checking piece, logging nearly ten thousand checks, and his median opening preparation has crept from three moves deep to six, which in bullet terms is practically a novella. He plays best at 22:00, where he wins nearly 69% of his games. At 2 AM his win rate is a perfect, mathematically pure zero. The data has opinions about his bedtime and they are unanimous.
Rivals and the Eternal Mystery of jocko1959
No one keeps a sparring partner quite like Mehdi. His 129 games against fetenn produced a 70-50-9 record and, presumably, a friendship built on flagging. On the other side of the ledger sits Jocko1959, who has beaten him 43 times in 71 attempts. Every marathon runner needs a mountain, and Mehdi keeps climbing this one game by game.
Blitz: The Secret Garden
Here is the twist. When Mehdi actually plays his preferred time control, he is devastating: a blitz record of 77 wins against 21 losses, with a peak of 1841 (2025-11-24). Blitz is also where his signature trap shines, as he is a perfect six for six with the Blackburne Shilling Gambit. Behold the trap line he has sprung on the unsuspecting:
Quick Facts
- Username: mehdi61abs
- Home battlefield: bullet, by an overwhelming margin
- Longest winning streak: 19 games
- Most common cause of opponent death: flag falling
- Best hour to face him: never, but statistically 2 PM
- Worst hour to be him: 2 AM, and the data knows
- Signature weapon: the Blackburne Shilling Gambit, undefeated in blitz
Queue up against mehdi61abs and bring a charged mouse, a plan for move 40, and no illusions about him resigning. He is not hurrying, and he is definitely not quitting.