Muhammadsolih Rakhmatullaev: The Amazon of the Night Shift
Muhammadsolih Rakhmatullaev, competing online under the handle Mukhammadsolikh2010, is a young blitz chess specialist whose username quietly suggests a birth year of 2010. If accurate, he spent 2023 climbing past 2400 while his classmates were still learning what en passant means. He is proof that chess talent does not wait for adulthood, and neither does his alarm clock: his statistically best hour to play is 3 AM.
The Great Climb of 2023
In April 2023, Muhammadsolih was grinding around 1750 in blitz. By October he had rocketed all the way to 2468 (2023-10-19), a gain of roughly 700 points in about six months. September alone featured 231 blitz games, which works out to more than seven games per day, every single day. Somewhere in Uzbekistan, his teachers were wondering why he looked tired in class.
He also dabbles in bullet, peaking at 2219, and owns a tidy 2250 in rapid. Rapid appears to be little more than a snack between blitz feasts: he has played only four rated rapid games and won three of them.
Openings: Queen First, Ask Questions Later
As White, Muhammadsolih opens with 1.d4 in 210 games and has developed a genuine love affair with the Amazon Attack, deploying it in 107 blitz games. The Amazon Attack is the chess equivalent of showing up to a formal dinner in pajamas: objectively dubious, emotionally devastating. He even has a pet sub-line, the Siberian Attack, because apparently one adventurous queen was not enough. Against the Pirc Defense Austrian Attack he is a monstrous 12-4, a 75% win rate that suggests he has read a book or two on the side.
As Black, he is a loyal soldier of the French Defense, rotating through the Burn Variation, the Advance Variation, the Exchange Variation, and the gloriously named Guimard Variation, Thunderbunny Variation. In bullet, his Australian Defense stands a perfect 5-0, meaning 1...a4 is either secretly brilliant or his opponents were half asleep. Possibly both, given his preferred starting time.
Style: The Comeback Machine
Muhammadsolih does not do quick knockouts. His average winning game runs about 83 moves, and 76% of his games reach a proper endgame. His early resignation rate is a minuscule 1.5%, and his comeback rate sits at an absurd 88%. Even after dropping a piece he wins 43.7% of the time, which is the statistical signature of a player who plans to simply out-walk you in a marathon.
Now for the strangest stat in his file: across 602 analyzed games, he delivered exactly zero checkmates. Every single victory came by resignation or the clock, meaning his opponents surveyed the position, sighed, and quit before the executioner even arrived. That is a very specific kind of respect.
Rivals and Quirks
No biography is complete without a nemesis. Enter Jemal Ovezdurdyeva, whom Muhammadsolih has faced 31 times for 10 wins, 15 losses, and 6 draws. That is not a rivalry, that is a subscription. Meanwhile greater2moro has experienced the other side of the coin, losing 9 of their 10 meetings.
- Best day of the week: Tuesday at 49.3%. Worst day: Thursday at a grim 29%.
- Best hour: 3 AM, where the win rate is a flawless 100%. Runner-up: 11 AM at 67%.
- Longest winning streak: 10 games in a row.
- Favorite checking piece: the Queen, personally responsible for 515 checks.
- Against lower-rated opposition he wins 76% of the time, which is called taking care of business.
- Blitz ledger: 220 wins, 216 losses, 61 draws, a near-perfect see-saw of a career.
Verdict
A d4-playing, French-Defense-wielding, 3 AM grinder who turns chess games into endurance sports and opponents into resignation artists. A climb from 1750 to nearly 2500 in six months says the ceiling is high and probably not reached yet. If you get paired with him at 3 AM on a Tuesday, good luck. If it is Thursday evening, maybe take the day off.