Meet Ali Sebbar
Ali Sebbar, the Moroccan International Master who battles online as moroccanchess23, is a full time fighting chess machine. With tens of thousands of rated games under his belt, a 29 game winning streak, and a comeback rate near 89 percent, he has built a reputation as one of the most relentless players on the platform. If you want to beat him, you had better finish the job, because he will not resign while hope remains.
A Gladiator of All Time Controls
Sebbar darts between bullet and blitz with ease, but his true home is Rapid chess. That is where his precision shines brightest, with a strength adjusted win rate close to 58 percent and a Rapid peak of 2723. In a single year he stacked up 143 Rapid wins against just 45 losses. He wins more often with the white pieces, though his black win rate is still a healthy 46 percent across all formats.
Openings of a Serial Sicilian Fighter
With white, Sebbar almost always reaches for 1.e4 and then dares opponents to prove something against his Sicilian Defense treatment. The Closed Sicilian, the Alapin Variation, and the Accelerated Dragon all feature heavily in his repertoire. With black, he turns to the East Indian Defense and the QGD Albin counter, both of which deliver winning results in his Rapid games. His decisiveness is remarkable: the average decisive game runs more than 88 moves, which means he grinds endgames like a man who never heard the word draw.
Familiar Foes
Great players attract great rivals. Sebbar has met William Sedlar 64 times, with the series still fiercely contested. Nasanjargal Urtnasan and marty-bird have also shared many long nights with him. But against amrsalk he has been nothing short of a nightmare, winning 31 of 38 encounters. These rivalries are the heartbeat of his online career, a testament to the friendships and grudges that only rapid fire chess can create.
Peak Form and Habits
His blitz graph is a story of sustained excellence.
captures a climb from 2250 territory to a peak near 2950. shows where his repertoire bites hardest. He is strongest at 22:00, loves Saturdays, and even his worst losing streak, which ran 11 games, is followed by a bounce back. When the clock is low and the position is messy, moroccanchess23 is exactly the player you do not want to face.