Aniruddha Kumar

The Legend of the Honk

Aniruddha Kumar, known to opponents across the online chess world as Obese_Geese23, is a blitz-first player with a username that promises waterfowl and delivers pure stubbornness. Since first waddling onto the board in March 2020, this goose has played more than 23,000 games, collected nearly 11,000 wins, and once held a peak Blitz rating of 2349 (2026-10-02). Once you hear the honk, you do not forget it.

The Lockdown Plummet

The origin story begins like many 2020 stories: a pandemic, a laptop, and unearned confidence. Aniruddha arrived rated 1507, played 199 blitz games in the very first month, and promptly slid all the way down to 702. A lesser bird would have migrated to a different hobby. Instead came the flapping.

The Long Migration

What followed was one of the most patient climbs in the pond. Over 1,100 blitz games in July 2020 alone. Back past 1500 by September of that year. Past 2000 in 2021, past 2100 in 2022, and comfortably nested in the 2200s through 2024 and 2025. Along the way the goose also set peaks of 2370 (2024-10-11) and 2361 (2025-07-25), just to prove the wings still work at every speed. In October 2026 came the highest perch of all. The migration route, in full:

How the Goose Plays

As White, nearly every game begins the same way:

The first capture usually lands around move five or six, but the real signature comes later. Roughly 68% of games reach an endgame, where the grinding begins, and a comeback rate near 83% means being material down is treated as a mild suggestion rather than a verdict. An early resignation rate of just 1.75% confirms this is a bird that has never fully believed a position was lost.

Wins average around 66 moves. Opponents have resigned more than 5,000 times, been checkmated more than 3,000 times, and simply run out of clock more than 2,600 times. The goose does not chase you. The goose outlives you.

The Repertoire

The most faithful companion is the Blackburne Shilling Gambit, with more than 1,000 blitz encounters, trailed by the Caro-Kann Defense and the Scandinavian Defense. There are also scenic detours into the Amar Gambit, the Vienna Gambit with the Max Lange Defense, and even the Australian Defense, because one continent of openings is never enough. The Scotch Game remains the rocky shoreline at around 43%, proof that even geese have taste.

Rivals, Prey, and Himself

With great volume comes great rivalry. The chief sparring partner is chessgamer1212121212, with a colossal 397 meetings and a nearly even 171-207-19 ledger. dachessbeast7 has been thoroughly goose-ified at 132-23-7, while sasukegod123 and uqueerqueen have both ended up on the wrong side of the pecking order.

Then there are the nemeses. Krusty Clown owns a brutal 29-95-13 edge across 137 games, and Ganesh Kumarappan leads 78-31, apparently immune to honk-based psychology. Strangest of all is obeesegeesealt, Aniruddha's own alternate account: 119 games, 80 wins, 16 losses, and 23 draws against himself. Either that is supreme self-awareness or the most confusing mirror match in chess history.

Feathers and Fun Facts

• Longest winning streak: 23 games. Longest losing streak: 15, but nobody is keeping track of that. The data is.
• Prime playing hour is 2 pm. Avoid scheduling anything at 8 am, when the win rate sags to 40.91%.
• Wednesday is the best day of the week, edging past 50%. Tuesdays are for preening.
• Rated games cost about 14 points of win rate compared to casual play, suggesting the goose performs best when nobody is officially counting.
• Favorite checking piece: the queen. Subtlety is for swans.
• Daily chess remains the final boss, with just 3 wins against 12 losses. Correspondence, it turns out, requires patience of an entirely different species.

From a 702 rubble heap to the top of the flock, Aniruddha Kumar's career is a monument to one simple truth: geese do not resign, geese do not rush, and geese always come back for another game.