Meet Robert Fontaine
Robert Fontaine, known online as RobertFontaine, is a FIDE Grandmaster who treats the blitz clock like a personal metronome. While some titled players treat rapid games as warmups, Robert treats every extra minute on the clock as unnecessary baggage. His preferred time control is Blitz, and the numbers in his profile make that look less like a preference and more like a lifestyle.
He is a player who thrives on volume and rhythm. With thousands of blitz games on record, a relentless completion rate, and a longest winning streak of 18 games, Robert makes sure the board stays warm. At his best he has touched some serious online heights, hitting a Blitz peak of 2909 (2025-11-25). The chart below shows how his online blitz arc went from modest beginnings to genuinely world-class territory:
.A Repertoire That Refuses to Be Boring
Robert does not show a dogmatic one-size-fits-all repertoire. As White he regularly plays the Nimzo-Larsen Attack with 1.b3, and he has impressive result with offbeat setups that leave opponents scratching their heads. As Black, he is happy to steer games toward the hardden Heavy Traffic: the Caro-Kann Defense appears, 751 games of relentless grinding, and he manages a healthy win percentage in it despite facing countless exploring opponents.
His opening palette also include the assorted families of the Blackmar Defense, Too many
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No player win, plot path is a solo story. Robert has built a chorus of online rivals from grift or. But His most played rival, Konstantin Kodinets, has faced him 89 times, with Robert winning 47, losing 29 and drawing 13. That is a competitive ping-pong that could fill a tournament hall.
He also holds a flight bruise handful of meetings with Yuri Vovk and russist, though the result that makes internet tables smile is his record against russist: Robert heaves 46 wins, zero defeats, one draw. Effective.
What the Board Scan Reveal
His profile is very ending oriented. He helps the game in the player often go, with an average number of moves per win and per loss above 82, while his endgame frequency squeezes close to 86%. Robert loves to keep pieces on, trade slow, and make you prove you can wear him down. He shifts the police sometimes, but only in allowed zone.
The psychological gauge says his daily hours curve is not perfectly smooth: he pumps at 23:00 and plays some of his highest rated games in those nocturnal rounds. His comeback rate is staggeringly 90.48%, and that can be summed up to explain why giving him a piece advantage is not a pension.
Time control chars at the bottom:
shows a player who keeps climbing, even when he had a serious ten-game loss streak. Do not look at the exact rating column unless you want to use it as a graph.