Meet the Blitz Grandmaster
Michael Roiz, who logs in on chess as MichaelRoiz, is a FIDE Grandmaster with a clear online priority: blitz. Since 2016, he has racked up more than 22,000 rated blitz games, and the scoreboard suggests he rarely leaves the server voluntarily. This is not a casual hobby; this is a long, joyful chess romance played at one, three, and five minute time controls.
His blitz history is a story of persistence with a cap.
shows the climb, the dips, and the eventual high-altitude home. At his strongest he reached 3258 (2026-09-11) in blitz, but the real legend is the sheer volume he has put through the board.Repertoire at Warp Speed
Roiz has a practical, adaptable opening identity. He has sunk hundreds of blitz games into prepared lines, grindable middlegames, and endgames he can convert. He is at home in the Caro-Kann Defense, almost as if he lives in the same room as its structures. When he needs flexibility, he reaches for the Döry Defense, and as White he has used many games to play the English Opening: Agincourt Defense.
The pattern is not about memorizing a single lightning bolt. His repertoire is about being more comfortable than the other player after move twenty, then being more precise than the other player after move forty.
Rivals, Reruns, and Repeated Voltage
Michael Roiz does not merely face opponents; he builds rivalries through repeat visits. Against Sergey Grigoriants, he has played more than 400 games, and the final table reads 181 wins, 112 losses and 113 draws. That is a friendship already carrying scoresheet scars. Another regular in his online bracket is Daniel Naroditsky, a rival with a matching set: 202 games, 74 wins for Roiz and 94 for danielnaroditsky. It is exactly the kind of rivalry that makes the website feel like a tour hall.
There is also [[Link=profile|maitreia]], one of his warmest pairings on paper. Against maitreia, Roiz has 175 wins in 232 games, which does not happen by accident; it happens because someone found the right serve and repeated it beautifully.
A Grinder Who Can Turn the Game Around
Roiz is not just a blitz rhino. His psychology is also loaded with survival instinct. He has an 18-game winning streak somewhere in the vault, and his losses are not usually one-sided affairs. Even after losing material, he still wins more than half the time, and his comeback rate sits near 90 percent. That is the e-mail signature of a player who thinks the game is over only when the final flag falls.
He reaches the endgame almost constantly, and his decisive games average more than 80 moves. Grandmaster Roiz, in other words, is not a player who senses and leaves. He is a player who moves, waits, collects a few extra chances, and reveals why blitz remains his true lane.