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opollock24

Playing Since: 2022-12-17 (Active)

Wow Factor: ♟♟

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Rapid: 978
56W / 45L / 5D
Blitz: 751
1229W / 1277L / 218D
Bullet: 351
3W / 3L / 0D

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
Rating by Year2022202320251016331YearRatingBulletBlitzRapid

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%
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