Guido Caprio (movingmeats): International Master of the Blitz Grind
Overview
Guido Caprio, better known online as movingmeats, is a FIDE-titled International Master who has turned blitz chess from a pastime into a cardiovascular event. The username suggests either speed chess with protein or a deli with ambitions; the game log suggests both. He has racked up more than 8,800 blitz games and over 1,500 bullet games, with some months crossing a thousand games of play, which means he has spent entire working weeks essentially pressing a clock.
Away from fast chess he keeps a small, almost apologetic footprint in rapid and daily formats, games in which he can, in fact, think slowly, and has opted not to.
The Great Ascent
In April 2025, Caprio's blitz rating was a humble 568. By the end of May, after 402 games, he was playing like a 2600-strength machine. Whether that month was the most explosive self-improvement arc in recorded chess or simply an account warming up its engines, the destination is not in dispute: a peak blitz rating of 2862 on September 16, 2025, and a peak bullet rating of 2889 on New Year's Eve, because nothing says fireworks like pre-moves at midnight. His current blitz benchmark: 2862 (2025-09-16).
An Opening Repertoire That Defies Explanation
Caprio treats mainstream theory the way a cat treats a closed door. As White, his signature is the Amar Gambit, the knight-to-h3 oddity that club players fear and professionals pretend not to see. He has played it 260 times in blitz at a 46.5% win rate, a genuinely heroic result for an opening no tenured coach has ever recommended. His best scoring mainstay is the Modern (63.9% as White), supported by the Caro-Kann, the Amazon Attack, and the delightfully named Colle Rhamphorhynchus Variation, an opening that sounds like a pterodactyl and occasionally plays like one.
As Black he leans on the Czech Defense (294 blitz games) and the Caro-Kann Defense for structural sanity, flirts with the Sicilian, and then, for reasons his therapist may understand someday, plays the Barnes Defense: over two hundred blitz games at a 39.71% win rate, a number that has not discouraged him in the slightest. In 2025 he opened with 1.d4 in 1,633 games; in 2026 he has opened with 1.e4 more than a thousand times. Somewhere, a Queen's Gambit purist is quietly weeping.
Playing Style
The numbers sketch a grinder with impeccable manners. Roughly 78% of his games reach an endgame, his wins average 72 moves, and his first capture usually lands on move 8, so all bloodshed is scheduled in advance. He lands the first check more than half the time and has logged nearly ten thousand queen checks, making the queen his favorite piece and, apparently, his love language.
When a position goes sour, he does not renegotiate. A 91% early resignation rate means lost games end promptly and politely, while an 84% comeback rate means many of the rest end in ambush instead. A tilt factor of 18 is almost unnervingly serene for a man who plays hundreds of blitz games a month.
Rivalries and Nemeses
Caprio's marathon opponents know him well. His record against cm_juleslarcher stands at a monstrous 35 wins against 4 losses, less a rivalry than a lap pool. Against prettyfemboi the script flips to 6 wins and 26 defeats, proof that even a 2862-peak machine has a weather system he cannot steer around. Against his most played opponent volvo333, the ledger sits almost perfectly even at 33-30-3 across 66 games, the chess equivalent of two neighbors forever borrowing each other's ladder. His longest winning streak reached 16 games; his longest losing streak hit 18. The universe keeps its books balanced.
Life Beyond the Blitz Board
Caprio's best hour is 2 PM, where his win rate climbs to about 55%, and his worst is roughly 3 AM, when the pre-moves get philosophical. His rapid (7-9) and daily (4-2) records exist mostly to prove he can play slow chess, and his daily peak of 1447 suggests slow chess is a sampler platter rather than a hobby. He has gone undefeated with the Barnes Defense, the Amar Gambit, and the Colle Rhamphorhynchus Variation in daily play, the kind of anomaly that keeps researchers awake at night.
Opponents rarely see his checkmate on the board. Of his more than 4,500 blitz wins, only 93 ended with actual mate, because at his table the resignation usually arrives ahead of the executioner. It is only fair: he resigns his own lost games early at a 91% rate and extends to others exactly the courtesy he demands.
Quick Facts
- FIDE title: International Master
- Preferred time control: blitz, overwhelmingly
- Peak blitz rating: 2862 (2025-09-16)
- Signature weapon: the Amar Gambit
- Longest winning streak: 16 games
- Best time to face him: 3 AM, bring coffee