Who Is Mohammed Alkhodairy?
Mohammed Alkhodairy, known on the board as MoAlkhodairy, is a chess player with a very specific relationship to the clock: he does not fear it, he simply refuses to acknowledge it. With a preferred time control of Bullet, Mohammed treats chess less like a slow conversation and more like a shouting match conducted at 2600 level.
His first recorded games appeared in 2021, small scraps of Rapid while he found his feet. By 2022 he had discovered Blitz. By 2023 he had discovered Bullet, and the world of online chess has been slightly louder ever since.
A Man of a Thousand (Mostly English) Openings
If you want to know what Mohammed plays with the white pieces, look at the letter c. His favourite first move is c4, the doorway into the English Opening, which he has played thousands of times. His pet line, the English Opening: Drill Variation, has served him well across Blitz, Rapid and Bullet, and remains the closest thing he has to a comfort blanket.
With the black pieces he is a devoted Caro-Kann Defense loyalist, having racked up well over a thousand games in the main line. He is also not shy of the Dutch Defense, a choice that suggests he enjoys positions where nobody, including himself, knows what is happening.
He has dabbled in more gambits than most players have had hot dinners: the Amar Gambit, the Bonet Gambit, the Elephant Gambit, and a Colle system variant whose name is long enough to require its own postcode. Some of these work beautifully. Some of them are a cry for help.
The Bullet Lifestyle
Mohammed's bullet record is the stuff of legend: over six thousand wins, thousands of losses, and a handful of draws that presumably happened when both players ran out of time simultaneously. He has never met a one minute game he did not want to play twice.
His rating climbed steadily through the years, breaking 2000 in Bullet in late 2023, crossing 2400 in 2024, and eventually peaking at 2655 (2026-04-23). That particular number is best admired rather than explained.
Friends, Rivals and Frequent Victims
No profile of Mohammed is complete without mentioning witty_alien, an opponent he has faced 572 times in what can only be described as an ongoing dispute. The record reads 101 wins, 464 losses and 7 draws. It is less a rivalry and more a recurring subscription service. Volen Dyulgerov
There are brighter stories. Against besseralsbenj1 he holds a healthy 83 to 22 advantage, proof that Mohammed does occasionally get to be the scary one. He has also crossed swords repeatedly with sjakkongen15, sjakkongen09, chess3169 and chesssharkz, which suggests he either loves a rematch or has simply never learned how to close a browser tab.
How He Wins (and How He Loses)
- He is a relentless attacker, averaging multiple checks per game and frequently the first to give one.
- He converts comebacks at a remarkable rate, which is a polite way of saying he gets into trouble and then gets out of it.
- He plays long games for a Bullet specialist, with endgames appearing in over two thirds of his finished games.
- His longest winning streak reached 29 games. His longest losing streak reached 24. Both are achievements.
- He resigns early only about two percent of the time, because giving up is for people with healthy sleep schedules.
The Verdict
Mohammed Alkhodairy is a high volume, high ambition, low patience chess player who has built a genuine 2600 level Bullet game one frantic mouse click at a time. He plays the English, he plays the Caro-Kann, he plays more gambits than is medically advisable, and he keeps coming back to the same opponents regardless of the score. Some call that stubbornness. He calls it a rematch.