opollock24: A Chess Biography with a Twist of Wit
Meet opollock24, a player whose chess rating history reads like a fascinating evolutionary tale across time and formats. From a rapid rise in the Rapid and Blitz colonies to dabbling in the bullet niche, opollock24 navigates the chequered battlefield with both patience and speed.
Rating Evolution & Playing Rhythm
Starting out in 2022 with a Rapid rating peaking at 1016, opollock24 flexed their synapses to blitz through 2023, peaking at a blitz rating of 887. By 2025, this player’s Blitz rating stabilized around 716, showing nice adaptive resilience after surviving the wild ecosystems of chess competition. Their bullet ventures remain modest but feisty, peaking at 361, a tiny yet spirited nymph in the fast-paced insect world of bullet chess.
With an endgame frequency hovering near 57%, opollock24 clearly loves a good finale - a season finale, if you will, where each move is a step in the wash of biological survival.
Opening Repertoire: A Garden of Gambits
Like a well-cultivated garden, opollock24 blends classic openings with experimental variations. The king's pawn opening is their oak tree — sturdy and reliable — boasting a solid 50% win rate over 300+ games. The Queen’s Pawn Zukertort Chigorin variation and King's Pawn King's Knight variation bloom beautifully with a win rate above 50%, proving opollock24’s ability to photosynthesize fresh ideas from old roots.
Less fertile grounds like the Scandinavian defense sometimes leave opollock24 with a win rate closer to 33%, a reminder that even in the forest of chess, some trees do struggle to thrive.
Victories, Defeats, and the Science of Comebacks
With over 1,150 wins in Blitz alone, and an astonishing 100% win rate after losing a piece, opollock24 is a true survivor, showing an extraordinary capacity to bounce back from adversity - a real phoenix of the 64 squares, or better yet, a tenacious tardigrade in the face of cellular disruption.
Strategically, they keep the average moves in wins slightly above losses, indicating a preference for grinding down opponents in long, cerebral battles rather than quick skirmishes.
Psychology & Playtime Patterns
opollock24 exhibits a modest tilt factor of 10, meaning it’s unlikely they’ll lose their cool - a crucial trait when pawns snap like DNA strands under pressure. Their peak strategic hours are between 12 PM and 9 PM, with a win rate often crossing 50%, like a diurnal animal tuned to the sun's rhythm.
Fun Facts & Quirky Insights
- Their longest win streak is a robust 9 games, proving they can replicate successful moves like a well-coded genetic sequence.
- An early resignation rate of just 6.45% means they usually don’t throw in the towel before their cells (or pieces) have done their duty.
- Interestingly, the hour at 9 AM shows a win rate of 0%, so perhaps it’s best not to challenge them before their morning coffee bubbles up the ATP (energy) reserves.
In summary, opollock24 is a fascinating species in the vast ecosystem of online chess: adaptable, resilient, and steadily evolving their game. Whether planting a solid opening or uprooting an opponent with a tactical strike, they prove time and again that in chess, as in biology, it’s survival of the fittest—and opollock24 has the genes for success.
🆚 Opponent Insights
| Most Played Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| callmegoodbye | 5W / 0L / 2D | |
| 000marcus | 2W / 1L / 0D | |
| jonreynolds32 | 2W / 0L / 1D | |
| mayur_prabhu | 0W / 3L / 0D | |
| blcmn | 1W / 1L / 0D | |
Rating
| Year | Bullet | Blitz | Rapid | Daily |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 351 | 793 | ||
| 2023 | 331 | 563 | 634 | |
| 2022 | 1016 |
Stats by Year
| Year | White | Black | Moves |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 230W / 209L / 38D | 221W / 225L / 33D | 64.3 |
| 2023 | 395W / 401L / 79D | 368W / 428L / 65D | 61.3 |
| 2022 | 0W / 1L / 0D | 0W / 0L / 0D | 92.0 |
Openings: Most Played
| Blitz Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top Secret | 334 | 161 | 148 | 25 | 48.2% |
| Kings Pawn Opening | 307 | 153 | 135 | 19 | 49.8% |
| Kings Pawn Opening Kings Knight Variation | 97 | 50 | 41 | 6 | 51.5% |
| Scotch Game | 97 | 36 | 48 | 13 | 37.1% |
| Italian Game | 76 | 38 | 29 | 9 | 50.0% |
| Scandinavian Defense Mieses Kotrc Variation | 71 | 30 | 32 | 9 | 42.2% |
| Giuoco Piano Game | 69 | 28 | 30 | 11 | 40.6% |
| Queens Pawn Opening Zukertort Chigorin Variation | 66 | 35 | 28 | 3 | 53.0% |
| Giuoco Piano Game Giuoco Pianissimo Variation | 51 | 19 | 30 | 2 | 37.2% |
| Philidor Defense | 44 | 18 | 21 | 5 | 40.9% |
| Rapid Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kings Pawn Opening | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 25.0% |
| Queens Pawn Opening Mikenas Defense | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Giuoco Piano Game Giuoco Pianissimo Italian Four Knights Canal Variation | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Giuoco Piano Game Four Knights Game | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Center Game Accepted Normal Variation | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Ponziani Opening | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Vienna Game Max Lange Fyfe Philidor Countergambit | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Vienna Game Falkbeer Variation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Reti Opening Black Mustang Defense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Bullet Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philidor Defense | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Queens Pawn Opening English Rat Defense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Four Knights Game Double Spanish Variation | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Reti Opening Queenside Fianchetto Variation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Four Knights Game Italian Variation | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
🔥 Streaks
| Streak | Longest | Current |
|---|---|---|
| Winning | 9 | 0 |
| Losing | 10 | 1 |