Pat Frappier (pat_frap)
A Life on the Clock
Pat Frappier, known to the online chess world as pat_frap, is a player shaped by sheer volume. With more than 27,000 rated games across bullet, blitz, daily and rapid chess, Pat is one of the most persistent competitors you will ever see in the queue. The home arena is bullet chess, where Pat's rating climbed from the low 1100s in 2019 to a career peak of 1889 (2025-11-13).
traces that long, noisy and wonderful climb.Signature Openings
Pat is a loyal 1.e4 player with a deep attachment to a small set of trusted openings. As Black, the French Defense is the comfort zone, showing up thousands of times in both blitz and bullet. As White, the Scotch Game and the Caro-Kann Defense are reliable scoring weapons, while the Scandinavian Defense and the Sicilian Defense: Closed make regular cameos. Pat's style leans on long games and frequent endgames.
Here is a typical French Defense structure Pat reaches as Black:
Rivalries and Revenge
Pat's competitive story is written in rivalries. The most daunting is Kara Wise, who owns 252 wins against Pat's 26 in nearly 300 battles. If kara is the villain, then chesscommikes is the regular dose of revenge therapy, with Pat taking 211 wins out of 269 meetings. These two head-to-heads define the emotional arc of Pat's chess life: plenty of struggle, plenty of payback.
- Against kara: 26 wins, 252 losses, 16 draws
- Against chesscommikes: 211 wins, 44 losses, 14 draws
Heart of a Scrapper
Pat does not go quietly. The comeback rate sits at 78%, and even after losing a piece Pat still wins 44% of the time. Games routinely stretch into endgames, and the average decisive game runs well past 60 moves. The longest winning streak hit 16, though the longest losing streak stretched to 18, a brutal reminder that online chess is a roller coaster. Right now Pat carries a nine-game losing skid, which by past evidence is just the setup for the next heater. Best results happen at 8:00 AM, when the board is quiet and the fingers are fast.
- Longest winning streak: 16 games
- Longest losing streak: 18 games
- Comeback rate: 78%
- Endgame frequency: 67%