Radoslav Genov

Radoslav Genov: The Man Who Plays Chess at 3 AM

Some people ease into chess. Radoslav Genov, known to the online world as Rado55, apparently fell out of bed, played a single game in 2017, drew it, and then vanished for five years like a chess-playing cryptid. When he returned in late 2022, he did not come back gently. He came back like a storm.

His first recorded blitz game? A win. His next several months? Roughly ten thousand games of unfiltered, caffeinated chess. Rado55 does not play chess; he processes it, one frantic mouse click at a time.