Alfredo Cecilio Miserendino, a.k.a. Mise2020
Alfredo Cecilio Miserendino, known online as Mise2020, is a National Master with a simple philosophy: if the clock has time left, play another game. Since arriving online in 2020, he has gone from a sub-600 bullet rookie to a 2152 bullet peak, and his preferred habitat is clearly bullet. Some players treat bullet as a warm-up; Mise2020 treats it as a lifestyle.
The Bullet Marathon
His rating graph is a love letter to persistence.
shows a climb from 590 to a 2152 peak, with enough dramatic dips to keep the premove adrenaline flowing. Mise2020 has played thousands of bullet games in a single month, including more than 2,200 in one April. His longest winning streak was 36 games. His longest losing streak was 27. Both are impressive if you refuse to log off, which he clearly does.An Opening Devotion
Mise2020's opening repertoire is deep but focused: he plays 1.e4 in the vast majority of games and welcomes the Caro-Kann Defense, the Scandinavian, and the Sicilian. Against the Sicilian, he has a particular fondness for the Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation. In fact, the Sherzer Variation of that Alapin has appeared more than 1,500 times in his bullet games alone, which suggests he has memorized every possible response, good or otherwise.
shows what happens when one player both loves and refuses to abandon the same opening thousands of times.A typical early position from his Alapin adventures might look like this:
.Numbers, Habits, and Odd Superpowers
- He comes back from losing a piece 41.6 percent of the time, a number that should not be mathematically legal.
- His best hour is 06:00, because apparently that is when the board makes sense and the opponent is asleep.
- His average decisive game runs about 70 moves, so he treats bullet like correspondence chess with a panic button.
- He checks first about 60 percent of the time, and the queen is his favored messenger.
- He has delivered over 21,000 queen checks in total, which is less a statistic and more a declaration of intent.
Frenemies
If the chess gods gave Mise2020 a recurring rival, it would be dhlir. The two have clashed 94 times, and the scoreline reads 31 wins for Mise2020, 55 for dhlir, and 8 draws. That is not just a losing record; that is a rivalry. Alfredo keeps coming back, because every bullet player knows revenge is just one premove away.