Alicja Sliwicka
plumalka is a FIDE Woman Grandmaster whose online chess life is defined by volume, variety and stubborn resilience. Her preferred battleground is Blitz, where she has piled up more than 1,200 rated games between 2016 and 2026.
A career that built speed
She started the recorded period near 1400 Blitz, but by the end of 2020 she was comfortably above 2500 and touched 2579. Her Blitz peak reached 2649 (2025-06-17), while her Bullet rating soared to 2770 (2025-12-12) in December 2025.
The numbers describe a player who improves with volume. In a single month in late 2025, she played 487 Bullet games, winning 191 of them, and that month was typical of her appetite for online competition.
Opening tastes
With Black, plumalka leans on the Sicilian Defense, especially the Classical Variation, which she has played nearly one hundred times in Blitz. She is also happy to unbalance the game with the Benko Gambit. With White, the Four Knights Game and Caro-Kann Defense appear again and again.
Her willingness to mix in offbeat setups, such as the Amar Gambit in Bullet, makes preparation against her surprisingly hard. The Modern system has, meanwhile, been a reliable source of Blitz success.
Rivalries and fighting spirit
No chess biography of plumalka would be complete without her signature resilience. She once put together a 14 game winning streak, and she survived a 20 game losing streak without disappearing from the board. Her comeback rate is 91.32%, and even after losing a piece she still wins more than 40% of the time.
Her most frequent opponent is ZURAB AZMAIPARASHVILI, who has faced her 32 times and holds the edge. Another durable rival is Leon Livaic, who leads their 24 game series with 23 wins, a reminder that plumalka never runs from a challenge.
Stylistic fingerprints
- Nearly nine games in ten reach an endgame, and decisive games average in the high 80s or low 90s.
- Her average first capture lands around move six, so she is willing to take the fight early.
- She strikes first with a check in 41.41% of games, and when she does, her winning percentage jumps to 50.6%.
- Her best hour on the board is around 10:00, when her win rate climbs toward 52%.
Those traits add up to a player who is dangerous in winning positions, resourceful in losing ones, and rarely boring.
The big picture
Beyond Blitz, her Rapid form has been outstanding: 44 wins, 12 losses and 9 draws. She has also faced a rotating cast of online regulars across many hundreds of games.
Alicja Sliwicka, better known to fans as plumalka, turned an online board into a laboratory for fighting chess. The Woman Grandmaster title is official proof, but the long evenings of Blitz and Bullet tell the fuller story of a player who keeps showing up and keeps improving.