The Bullet Professor
Haik Martirosyan, known to online opponents as Micki-taryan, is a FIDE Grandmaster who has turned the one-minute game into a personal art form. Since late 2017, he has piled up more than 31,000 rated online games, and if you squint at his playlists, the Nimzo-Larsen Attack and the bullet clock go together like coffee and chaos.
Loyalties and Rivalries
His most devoted rivalry is with Artur Davtyan, who has shared the queue with him in an absurd 2,787 games. Hehas also tested his reflexes against young superstar Alireza Firouzja 407 times. Whenever the Armenian blitz crowd shows up, Davit_Tiraturyan and Shant Sargsyan are never far behind.
Opening Menu
Martirosyan's white repertoire is a beautiful mix of solid development and glorious weirdness. He loves the positional squeeze of the Nimzo-Larsen Attack, but if you blink he will happily drift into the Amazon Attack and try to checkmate you before your coffee cools. His stats laugh at convention: an absurd number of scored games come after he has lost material, and his longest winning streak stretched to 31 straight games.
Fun Facts From The Board
- His endgame frequency sits near86 percent, meaning he rarely bails out even when the position gets messy.
- His comeback rate is 88.94 percent, so no lead feels safe against him.
- His best hour is 2 AM, which either explains everything or nothing at all.
- His bullet peak hit 3207 (2025-12-13), a number that would make most grandmasters spit out their tea.
- He has scored more than14,000 bullet wins, often decided by the clock rather than by checkmate, because bullet is a sport of flags, not kings.