Ririchess00: Midnight Oil and 22,000 Games of Online Blitz Chess
There is an hour when normal people are asleep. Ririchess00 is awake, hydrated, and queuing another blitz game. The platform record shows more than 22,000 games of online blitz chess, a number that stopped being a statistic somewhere around the second thousand and became a personality trait. The double zero at the end of the name is not a rating goal; it is the hour of day when the real work happens.
The December Rampage and the Long Climb
The debut month, December 2023, read like a heist: 346 blitz games played while the rating sprinted from 1335 to 2262, all while most new accounts were still picking an avatar. Since then the volume has become frankly geological, with months like October 2025 logging 1,968 games. The
tells the story of a climber who pauses, wobbles, and grinds upward again, topping out at 2482 (2026-08-24) in August 2026.Chess Openings: Bird Watcher, Pterodactyl Farmer
The signature by sheer mileage is the Bird Opening Dutch Variation, Batavo gambit: 2,670 blitz games and a 53% score, almost all with the white pieces. A taste of it in motion:
The move logs also insist nearly every game begins 1.e4, so the opening labels and the move list appear to be keeping secrets from each other. Both claims are technically true, which is either a database quirk or sorcery. Whichever path the games take, opponents keep answering with the Caro-Kann (52.45% to White across 1,348 meetings) and the Scandinavian (51.48% across 1,251), while the French Tarrasch, Botvinnik line returns a shiny 60.91% over 417 games, the best conversion rate on the whole menu.
With Black, it is all wingspan: the Modern Defense Pterodactyl Variation has flown out more than 1,700 times at just under 49%. The Sicilian Closed, at 40.39%, is the leaky rowboat that somehow keeps getting taken out anyway.
Playing Style: The Comeback Machine
- Endgame frequency: 84.53% of games reach the endgame
- Comeback rate: a defiant 87.39%
- Win rate even after dropping a piece: 45.67%
- Early resignations: a mere 12%, because surrender is for people with better things to do
Wins average about 74 moves; losses stretch to 86, meaning a Ririchess00 defeat is not a collapse, it is a long siege. Tilt factor: 12, roughly the emotional temperature of a refrigerator shelf. The queen is the designated aggressor with 26,572 career checks, and the first check lands 55.56% of the time. Meanwhile the clock is a fair-weather friend: 2,929 wins on time against 4,619 flag falls. As for bullet chess, there is exactly one game on record. It was won. The perfect record was then retired like a museum exhibit.
Chess Rivalries: The Regulars
Some opponents are adversaries; these are roommates. msaad148 has shared the board 136 times, with Ririchess00 holding a 75-45-16 edge. xadrezmabxd (93 games, 45-37-11) and salatas (62 games, 40-21-1) keep the ledger friendly. Then there are the two dents in the armor: jetrot9 (79 games, 29-41-9) and chessdonkeyx (66 games, 23-38-5), living proof that a nemesis is just a sparring partner with better timing.
Circadian Chess: Know Your Sunrise
The data is blunt about biology. At midnight the win rate peaks near 52.75%; at 8 AM it collapses to 33.75%, suggesting the true breakfast opponent is the sunrise itself. Saturday is the strongest day, Monday the most humid. Streaks swing accordingly: a 15-game winning streak, a 12-game losing streak, and a career of 10,772 wins against 10,448 losses, balanced on a knife edge like a very tired acrobat. Verdict: challenge Ririchess00 before breakfast if you must, but after midnight you are simply feeding the Pterodactyl.