Biography
Kimberly Liu is a Woman FIDE Master and a lively chess streamer who makes the king’s Indian look like a dance move. With a career that stretches back to 2009, she embraces blitz with the same gusto she brings to her chatbox — fast, fearless, and occasionally mischievous. Beyond the board, she builds community, sharing tactics, games, and the occasional puzzle that leaves viewers both baffled and inspired.
Chess Journey
Kimberly’s rise has been a blend of study, stamina, and showmanship. A Blitz specialist by preference, she earned the Woman FIDE Master title from FIDE, a milestone that marks her as one of chess’s thoughtful competitors with a flair for rapid-fire battles. Her online presence is open, welcoming fans to join in blitz sessions, analysis streams, and friendly banter as she pieces together clever ideas under time pressure. For a quick look at her long-form performance, see
.- Her peak Blitz rating is 2223 (2020-04-28).
- She has demonstrated resilience across formats, including Rapid, Daily, and Bullet, while continuing to push creative openings and practical endgames.
- Her streaming schedule blends education with entertainment, turning even a misstep into a teaching moment for viewers.
Opening Style and Highlights
Kimberly’s Blitz repertoire blends sharp, tactical ideas with practical mistakes that become powerful learning moments. She has explored a variety of openings, with a notable inclination toward aggressive lines and quick development. Expect a mix of vibrant gambits and solid defense that keeps opponents on their toes.
- Amar Gambit and its relentless tempo in Blitz sessions.
- French Defense family variations, offering robust, counterattacking chances.
- A willingness to experiment with the Sicilian, Scotch, and Scandinavian themes in fast time controls.
Streaming and Community
Kimberly Liu shares her love of chess with a growing audience, hosting live Blitz battles, tactical breakdowns, and Q&A streams. Her channel is a space where fans can watch, learn, and laugh along as she navigates the clock and the board. You can connect with her on her profile page kimberlyliu.
- Engaging live commentary that breaks down ideas in real time.
- Viewer interaction that turns games into collaborative learning.
- Regular streams that emphasize practical improvement and a bit of humor.
Notable Feats and Stats (at a glance)
While this biography keeps a modest profile, her peak numbers hint at a wide-ranging and long-running presence in competitive chess. See the embedded indicators for a snapshot of her peak ratings across time controls:
- Peak Blitz rating: 2223 (2020-04-28)
- Peak Rapid rating: 2203 (2021-01-30)
- Peak Daily rating: 2074 (2020-09-28)
- Peak Bullet rating: 2404 (2023-02-26)
Her long career includes extensive game histories, streaks, and opening performance across multiple formats, all contributing to a distinctive, entertaining, and educational chess persona on and off the screen.
Coaching Feedback for Kimberly Liu
Hi Kimberly, you've shown great perseverance and tactical awareness in your recent games, especially in your latest Chess960 wins. Here are some points to build on for your continued growth:
Strengths
- Active Piece Play: You frequently activated your knights and bishops effectively, creating pressure on your opponent’s position early on.
- King Safety: You consistently prioritized castling (even in Chess960!), which helped consolidate your defense and connect your rooks smoothly.
- Exploitation of Tactical Opportunities: In several games, you capitalized decisively on your opponent’s positional mistakes, resulting in strong winning attacks.
- Endgame Technique: Your last win featured a clean finish using rooks and queens with precision—keep refining this strength.
Areas to Improve
- Opening Repertoire and Preparation: In some losses, particularly in classical and daily formats, early moves led to passive positions. Consider reinforcing your opening knowledge and understand common plans and traps for lines you play regularly.
- Time Management: You showed solid time usage overall, but occasionally spent extra time in critical moments. Practice maintaining steady time control to give yourself ample opportunity for calculation in crucial positions.
- Defensive Awareness: A few games demonstrated vulnerabilities when under pressure, allowing your opponent to seize the initiative. Work on recognizing and parrying threats more actively in the midgame.
- Pawn Structure and Central Control: Improving your understanding of how to maintain strong pawn centers or when to challenge opponent central pawns will enhance both your attacking and defensive play.
Next Steps
- Review your recent games (especially losses) and identify critical turning points.
- Study opening principles and experiment with a consistent opening setup in online games.
- Practice keeping an eye on opponent threats and reinforcing your position with prophylactic moves.
- Try solving tactical puzzles daily to sharpen your calculation skills further.
Keep up the hard work, Kimberly! With focused study and consistent practice, you’ll continue to improve your overall game strength and rating.
🆚 Opponent Insights
| Recent Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| boomawangg | 4W / 0L / 0D | View |
| Ruifeng Li | 0W / 3L / 0D | View |
| pccat | 0W / 1L / 0D | View |
| mangekyovision | 0W / 1L / 0D | View |
| GarryCaspivarov | 1W / 0L / 0D | View |
| Most Played Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| groobz | 427W / 8L / 9D | View Games |
| Nathan Fong | 133W / 99L / 21D | View Games |
| Devina Devagharan | 96W / 99L / 18D | View Games |
| Rick Sun | 71W / 135L / 0D | View Games |
| Sean Vibbert | 73W / 106L / 16D | View Games |
Rating
| Year | Bullet | Blitz | Rapid | Daily |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2059 | 2006 | ||
| 2024 | 2148 | 2079 | 2006 | 1711 |
| 2023 | 2148 | 2078 | 2006 | 1684 |
| 2022 | 2378 | 1530 | 2079 | 1681 |
| 2021 | 2307 | 1805 | 2013 | 1762 |
| 2020 | 2273 | 1937 | 2201 | 2049 |
| 2019 | 1857 | 2132 | 1964 | |
| 2018 | 1834 | 2041 | 1840 | |
| 2017 | 1511 | 1826 | 1777 | |
| 2016 | 1561 | 1669 | 1641 | |
| 2015 | 1567 | 1550 | ||
| 2014 | 1547 | |||
| 2013 | 1485 | 1574 | 1722 | |
| 2012 | 1519 | 1566 | ||
| 2011 | 1153 | 1552 | 1071 | 1455 |
| 2010 | 1200 | 1306 | 1144 | 1455 |
| 2009 | 1293 | 1206 |
Stats by Year
| Year | White | Black | Moves |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8W / 3L / 1D | 15W / 3L / 1D | 62.5 |
| 2024 | 19W / 6L / 0D | 15W / 7L / 2D | 49.9 |
| 2023 | 101W / 41L / 6D | 88W / 53L / 15D | 62.3 |
| 2022 | 70W / 17L / 12D | 74W / 34L / 11D | 60.1 |
| 2021 | 358W / 198L / 20D | 338W / 206L / 26D | 69.4 |
| 2020 | 1102W / 889L / 88D | 1012W / 930L / 89D | 62.7 |
| 2019 | 47W / 47L / 2D | 43W / 45L / 9D | 64.4 |
| 2018 | 83W / 87L / 7D | 78W / 98L / 11D | 65.8 |
| 2017 | 42W / 86L / 9D | 48W / 93L / 0D | 59.1 |
| 2016 | 4W / 4L / 0D | 3W / 2L / 3D | 76.3 |
| 2015 | 1W / 2L / 0D | 1W / 1L / 0D | 71.6 |
| 2014 | 37W / 15L / 4D | 30W / 17L / 2D | 39.5 |
| 2013 | 30W / 21L / 1D | 32W / 21L / 1D | 53.0 |
| 2012 | 41W / 57L / 9D | 46W / 59L / 11D | 59.4 |
| 2011 | 163W / 175L / 8D | 197W / 192L / 12D | 65.6 |
| 2010 | 53W / 55L / 4D | 49W / 62L / 3D | 41.0 |
| 2009 | 6W / 18L / 1D | 10W / 15L / 0D | 43.1 |
Openings: Most Played
| Daily Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sicilian Defense: Closed | 53 | 28 | 24 | 1 | 52.8% |
| London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation | 50 | 33 | 15 | 2 | 66.0% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 42 | 25 | 17 | 0 | 59.5% |
| Czech Defense | 41 | 32 | 6 | 3 | 78.0% |
| QGD: Chigorin, 3.cxd5 | 41 | 34 | 6 | 1 | 82.9% |
| Alekhine Defense | 32 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 65.6% |
| Philidor Defense | 28 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 50.0% |
| French Defense: Advance Variation | 21 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 28.6% |
| French Defense | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 61.1% |
| King's Indian Attack | 17 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 47.1% |
| Blitz Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amar Gambit | 266 | 208 | 52 | 6 | 78.2% |
| French Defense | 201 | 137 | 60 | 4 | 68.2% |
| Sicilian Defense: Closed | 200 | 85 | 108 | 7 | 42.5% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation | 159 | 79 | 74 | 6 | 49.7% |
| Unknown | 141 | 61 | 79 | 1 | 43.3% |
| French Defense: Exchange Variation | 139 | 63 | 69 | 7 | 45.3% |
| Unknown Opening* | 137 | 80 | 42 | 15 | 58.4% |
| Barnes Defense | 134 | 91 | 40 | 3 | 67.9% |
| Scotch Game | 128 | 67 | 53 | 8 | 52.3% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 127 | 83 | 37 | 7 | 65.3% |
| Rapid Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Game | 21 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 76.2% |
| Sicilian Defense: Closed | 19 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 79.0% |
| French Defense: Advance Variation | 16 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 87.5% |
| French Defense | 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 73.3% |
| French Defense: Exchange Variation | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 33.3% |
| London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 50.0% |
| Blackburne Shilling Gambit | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 30.0% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% |
| Amazon Attack | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 62.5% |
| Bullet Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amar Gambit | 398 | 155 | 225 | 18 | 38.9% |
| Colle System: Rhamphorhynchus Variation | 195 | 103 | 88 | 4 | 52.8% |
| French Defense | 182 | 88 | 89 | 5 | 48.4% |
| Nimzo-Larsen Attack | 131 | 44 | 82 | 5 | 33.6% |
| Barnes Defense | 118 | 52 | 61 | 5 | 44.1% |
| French Defense: Exchange Variation | 98 | 47 | 46 | 5 | 48.0% |
| Modern | 84 | 40 | 41 | 3 | 47.6% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 75 | 34 | 39 | 2 | 45.3% |
| Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation | 70 | 25 | 44 | 1 | 35.7% |
| Hungarian Opening: Wiedenhagen-Beta Gambit | 68 | 28 | 33 | 7 | 41.2% |
🔥 Streaks
| Streak | Longest | Current |
|---|---|---|
| Winning | 32 | 2 |
| Losing | 31 | 0 |