NoamTheGreat312: The Daily Grind Specialist
Some players chase the clock. NoamTheGreat312, known simply as Noam to anyone who has shared a correspondence board with him, prefers to chase the perfect move instead. His preferred time control is Daily, which is a polite way of saying he will think about a knight retreat for two days and then play it with total conviction. Somewhere between the slow burn of correspondence chess and the occasional blitz brawl, a genuinely dangerous all-round player has emerged: a 1.d4 devotee with a fondness for the London System, a stubborn streak in the endgame, and a win rate that suggests he enjoys making opponents wait for the ax to fall.
He has been a fixture on the server since early 2023, and the arc of his progress reads like someone who refused to take the shortcut. Thousands of Rapid games, enough Blitz to keep the reflexes honest, and a Daily portfolio where he has lost only a small fraction of his finished games. His peak Rapid rating of 2393, reached in November 2025, is a serious number for a player who still counts his first move as a personality trait rather than a theory decision.
The Daily Board Is Home
Daily chess rewards patience, notebook-level preparation, and the willingness to leave a position alone for eighteen hours and come back with fresh eyes. That suits Noam perfectly. He opens almost exclusively with the queen's pawn: in the 2025 season alone he started with 1.d4 in 658 games, compared to a mere handful of 1.e4 experiments. The London System and the Colle System feature heavily, with a bit of the Catalan Opening and the Queen's Gambit Declined thrown in when he feels like making life structurally awkward.
In Daily play his statistics are almost comically lopsided. His Queen's Gambit Declined Hastings Variation has produced a 75 percent win rate, the Catalan Opening has been even kinder at nearly 78 percent, and the rare Australian Defense has been a perfect 4 out of 4. The pattern is clear: if you get a two-day clock against this man, prepare for a long, quiet, deeply irritating squeeze.
What He Plays With Black (Usually While Smiling)
Against 1.e4, Noam's answer of choice is the Sicilian Defense, specifically the O'Kelly Variation and a heavy dose of the Closed Sicilian complex. It is a repertoire built for players who like their positions to have a plan and their opponents to have a headache. The accelerated Dragon makes regular appearances too, where his results hover around even and his ambitions hover considerably higher than that.
He also keeps a set of offbeat weapons in the bag: the Czech Defense, the Dory Defense, the Amar Gambit, and the wonderfully named Bird Opening Dutch Variation Batavo Gambit, which has clearly been played enough to count as a habit. Whether any of these are objectively good is a question he has chosen not to answer.
- White: 1.d4, London and Colle structures, occasional Catalan detours.
- Black: Sicilian sidelines, the Czech Defense, and a worrying love of gambits.
- Endgame frequency: around 73 percent of his games reach the endgame, so buckle up.
A typical Noam setup with white looks like this gentle London build:
Style: Patient, Then Suddenly Not
Noam's average game runs well past seventy moves, and his average winning game is actually longer than his average losing one, which tells you everything about how he likes to win: slowly, thoroughly, and with the opponent still hoping for a miracle. Yet no one should mistake patience for passivity. He delivers check roughly 2.7 times per game, his queen does most of the talking, and he is first to give check in about 45 percent of his games. When he gets the first check, his win rate jumps to 56 percent. When the opponent beats him to it, that number drops to about 41.
There is also a statistical curiosity that sums him up: his comeback rate is over 85 percent, meaning that when the engine verdict turns ugly, he is dramatically less likely to roll over than the average player. He also has a well-earned reputation for playing on in hopeless positions. His early resignation rate is 1.4 percent, which is a polite way of saying the resignation button appears to be broken.
The Rivalries
Every grinder has a nemesis, and Noam has collected a small rogues' gallery of them. cvcvcvcvcvcvcvcc has faced him 17 times and won exactly one, which has surely become a personal legend. asafshin has been even less fortunate: 16 games, 16 wins for Noam, one draw. booriesy has played 16 and lost all 16, which is the kind of record that makes a person wonder about the algorithm.
The friendlier, more balanced rivalry belongs to RThanson, whose series stands at 3 wins, 2 losses, and a draw, and to fupsidups, who has fought him to a dead-even 3-3. Most recently, eazygame123 has been handed a 14-0 education. Some series are exhibitions; some are wars. Noam appears to enjoy both equally.
Numbers Worth Knowing (Without Making It All About Numbers)
Across nearly four thousand games, Noam has proven himself a genuinely balanced competitor: a shade better with the white pieces than with black, wildly consistent against lower-rated opposition, and honest enough to lose regularly to stronger players. He wins about 71 percent of the time against opponents rated below him and about 61 percent against equals, while converting only 27 percent against higher-rated players. That is not a weakness so much as a confirmation that the rating system works.
- Longest winning streak: 15 games. Longest losing streak: 11. Both suggest a man who hits the rematch button.
- Best day of the week: Wednesday, with a 51 percent win rate. Sunday, with 44 percent, is best spent elsewhere.
- Best time of day: 23:00, where the sample is small but the results are unblemished.
- Termination profile: more wins by resignation than by checkmate, with a healthy side of wins on time.
His rapid career peak of 2393 (2025-11-21) was achieved in late 2025 after a year of remarkable growth, and he has since settled in comfortably among the server's stronger correspondence and rapid players. There is no sign of him slowing down, and no sign of him resigning early either.
The Verdict
NoamTheGreat312 is the chess equivalent of a slow-cooked meal: you cannot rush him, you cannot scare him, and by the time you realize what is happening, your position is structurally unrecognizable and his rook is on the seventh rank. If you meet him in a Daily game, budget several days, keep an eye on your c-pawn, and whatever you do, do not let him give the first check.