Tomislav Rakić: The Blitz Marathon Man
Tomislav Rakić, better known to the chess server as rakotr, is the kind of player who turns blitz into a lifestyle. With more than 65,000 rated blitz games on the clock, he has spent a decade living somewhere between the London System and the edge of the board.
Career Highlights
Tomislav began his online blitz journey in 2015 and immediately started grinding. By the end of the decade he had pushed his blitz rating into the 2300s, and in late 2025 he touched a personal peak of 2487.
- Longest winning streak: 15 games
- Longest losing streak: 21 games, which proves he is human
- Comeback rate: 84.96% after falling behind
- White win rate: 54.26%
- Black win rate: 47.66%
Playing Style and Repertoire
Tomislav's openings are practical and deeply rehearsed. As White he almost always plays 1.d4, and the ECO code D02, often called the London System, is his home for thousands of games. He scores close to 56% there, and over his volume that is a mountain of rating points.
As Black he is equally loyal. The Sicilian Defense appears in many forms, especially the Classical and Closed lines, while the Pirc Defense Classical Variation is another high-scoring weapon. He does not mind long battles, with his average winning game running to about 67 moves.
If the position goes wrong, do not celebrate too early. Tomislav wins back roughly 85% of the games in which he falls behind, and his win rate after losing a piece sits at 49%. He treats material deficits as a suggestion, not a verdict.
Familiar Rivals
Ten years of blitz mean ten years of reruns. Nobody has faced Tomislav more often than oleg bojarincev, who has shared 166 games with him. cris13chess is another recurring character, with 123 meetings and a nearly dead-even scoreline, 57 to 58 in cris13chess's favor.
Not every rivalry is sweet. Against marinstrasni, Tomislav has won only 19 of 103 games, which proves that even a marathon man sometimes meets a hill he cannot climb.
Fun Facts and Blitz Nightmares
- Tomislav's best time of day to play is 04:00. If you pair up with him at four in the morning, statistically you are in trouble.
- He has only three rated bullet games in his life, and he lost all three. Apparently one second per move is just too fast for a man who likes to think.
- His longest losing streak was 21 games. His next opponent should not assume anything, because the comeback rate is absurd.
- He has delivered more than 4,000 checkmates and over 144,000 checks in total. The queen is his favorite checking piece.
- Tomislav's preferred time control is blitz, and he has made it his art form.