Profile
Miras Assylov, better known to online opponents as NelsonLinda, is a FIDE Master with a rating graph that looks less like a career and more like a lunar launch. While he dabbles in all time controls, his home turf is unambiguously bullet chess, where he has pushed his rating to 2700 (2026-02-11). In under three years, his Blitz rating rocketed from 1737 to a peak of 2928 (2026-07-02) in Julyc 2026.
His username might sound like someone's grandmother, but his play suggests otherwise. Opponents who assume NelsonLinda is a casual player quickly learn that Assylov's clock-handling and tactical sharpness belong to a far more dangerous creature.
Signature Repertoire
If you sit down against Assylov, you will likely meet the Nimzo-Larsen Attack before you finish adjusting your pieces. He plays 1.b3 with almost religious fervor, racking up more than 125 Blitz games in that opening alone. The King's Indian Attack and the Amar Gambit also feature prominently, and his results with the Amar Gambit, a 71 percent win rate, are borderline absurd. He rounds out his white repertoire with flank openings and hypermodern setups that keep opponents off-balance from move one.
Against black, he favors the Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation, the Modern Defense, and assorted Indian setups. He is comfortable steering games into rich, maneuvering battles where his endgame feel can take over.
Rivalries
Every hero needs a foil, and Assylov has several. The online handles harvardrocks and suyarov1 have been persistent thorns, each holding a perfect 4-0 record against him. Vladislav Kovalev and Alexander Rustemov have also gotten the better of their mini-series. But it is not all gloom: Madhvendra Pratap Sharma has yet to solve the FM, falling 0-4, while Hoang Thi Bao Tram has managed only a single draw against three losses. His most balanced rivalries come against Vjacheslav Weetik and Jake Kleiman, both of whom sit locked at 2-2-1 in their head-to-head battles.
Playing Style
Assylov is a comeback artist. His comeback rate sits near 90 percent, and he wins more than half his games even after dropping a piece. He rarely gets blown off the board, with a one-sided loss rate of just over one percent, and he almost never resigns early. Games against him tend to last, with wins and losses averaging around 90 moves. Unsurprisingly, his endgame frequency is nearly 90 percent, making him a nightmare to put away.
- Comeback rate: 90.28 percent
- Win rate after losing a piece: 52.58 percent
- Longest winning streak: 16 straight games
- Average decisive game length: around 90 moves
He is dangerous with either color, though slightly more lethal as White, where his win rate approaches 57 percent. Once he gets rolling, he is hard to stop.
Quirks and Habits
The data reveals a player of fascinating idiosyncrasis. His best time of day to play is 2:00 AM, when his win rate touches a perfect 100 percent. Late evening games around 7 PM are nearly as kind, while midnight seems to be his kryptonite. Fridays bring out his best chess, with a 67.6 percent win rate, but Saturdays are a different story, as his performance dips to 43 percent.
His tilt factor is relatively low for someone who plays as much bullet as he does, though a seven-game losing streak shows that even the best can have off nights. Whether he is grinding at dawn or dodging Saturday distractions, Miras Assylov has turned an anonymous online handle into one of the most feared accounts on the server.