Sai Raghav: The Chessboard Biologist
In the vast ecosystem of chess players, Sai Raghav is an intriguing specimen, whose career has been a fascinating study in adaptation and endurance across multiple time controls. Much like a resilient tardigrade, Sai has weathered the storms of fluctuating ratings and evolving opponents, demonstrating tenacity and an uncanny ability to come back from setbacks — boasting a 70.08% comeback rate, which surely means he's no stranger to turning a losing position into a win with cunning tactics.
His chess DNA is encoded with a penchant for rapid-fire Blitz battles, where he has played thousands of games, accumulating over 7,000 wins and nearly an equal number of losses. However, his ability to bounce back after losing a piece is flawless — a perfect 100% win rate after such scenarios, proving that sometimes losing a rook is just a part of his evolutionary play style. The experiment continues with his striking psychological resilience, keeping tilt factors low and staying focused in both rated and casual matches.
Sai's opening repertoire is rich and varied, with a particular fondness for the Scandinavian Defense and its Mieses Kotrc Variation — his favorite petri dish for dissecting opponents’ strategies. The player's win rates in this opening hover around 44-52%, showing a stable environment where Sai's strategies flourish. When wielding the White pieces, Sai’s success rate edges higher, at about 47.86%, compared to a solid 45.71% with Black, indicating a versatile genetic code tailored for both attack and defense.
With an average of around 58 moves per victory, Sai's games are a careful blend of patience and aggression — much like a slowly growing fungus silently waiting for the perfect moment to bloom. His endgame frequency clocks in at 60%, suggesting that Sai truly swarms the battlefield till the very last cell in the game, mastering the final moves like a clever amoeba enveloping its prey.
Sai's temporal rhythms reveal another layer of his nature: his win rates peak in the early morning hours and around the 7th hour, perhaps when his neurons are optimally firing and his biological clock aligns with the circadian chess cycle. Sundays and Saturdays yield his best results, a time when strategies are nurtured, and resilience is naturally higher.
Humorous enough, Sai’s early resignation rate is just under 4%, which means he rarely exits the match prematurely — a testament to his persistent cellular structure that refuses to fold even when under pressure. From Blitz to Bullet, Rapid to Daily, Sai Raghav continues to mutate, evolve, and fight, reminding us all that biology meets strategy over sixty-four squares, and every game is a new life form waiting to be discovered.
In the grand laboratory of chess, Sai Raghav is truly a remarkable specimen, combining science, strategy, and a splash of humor to keep the game alive and kicking.
🆚 Opponent Insights
| Most Played Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| mitchhersey | 2W / 18L / 0D | |
| bantufischer45 | 3W / 6L / 1D | |
| justixe | 7W / 3L / 0D | |
| the_prashanth | 3W / 5L / 2D | |
| argentinoxxo | 8W / 0L / 0D | |
Rating
| Year | Bullet | Blitz | Rapid | Daily |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 612 | |||
| 2024 | 443 | 738 | 769 | |
| 2023 | 618 | 723 | 780 | 984 |
| 2022 | 728 | |||
| 2021 | 662 | 1117 | 1005 | |
| 2019 | 1001 | 1049 | ||
| 2018 | 930 | 1049 | ||
| 2017 | 732 | 867 | 1059 | |
| 2016 | 814 | 1135 | ||
| 2014 | 777 | |||
| 2012 | 791 | 821 | 1377 | 1242 |
Stats by Year
| Year | White | Black | Moves |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9W / 22L / 1D | 14W / 15L / 2D | 65.9 |
| 2024 | 814W / 859L / 96D | 848W / 820L / 98D | 65.5 |
| 2023 | 1129W / 1167L / 123D | 1150W / 1132L / 151D | 64.9 |
| 2022 | 202W / 203L / 18D | 203W / 198L / 19D | 64.0 |
| 2021 | 995W / 843L / 164D | 825W / 1021L / 155D | 68.1 |
| 2019 | 40W / 36L / 3D | 40W / 36L / 5D | 67.0 |
| 2018 | 125W / 107L / 18D | 102W / 123L / 21D | 67.6 |
| 2017 | 760W / 725L / 34D | 727W / 785L / 24D | 48.3 |
| 2016 | 54W / 55L / 7D | 57W / 51L / 7D | 63.0 |
| 2014 | 0W / 0L / 0D | 0W / 1L / 0D | 95.0 |
| 2012 | 46W / 61L / 6D | 31W / 75L / 9D | 66.2 |
Openings: Most Played
| Blitz Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scandinavian Defense Mieses Kotrc Variation | 2656 | 1171 | 1322 | 163 | 44.1% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 1467 | 773 | 600 | 94 | 52.7% |
| Bishops Opening | 774 | 363 | 368 | 43 | 46.9% |
| Kings Pawn Opening | 671 | 320 | 316 | 35 | 47.7% |
| Queens Pawn Opening | 473 | 219 | 225 | 29 | 46.3% |
| Center Game | 455 | 254 | 172 | 29 | 55.8% |
| Center Game Accepted Paulsen Attack | 336 | 151 | 168 | 17 | 44.9% |
| Bishops Opening Berlin Defense | 313 | 157 | 141 | 15 | 50.2% |
| Scandinavian Defense Closed | 312 | 137 | 151 | 24 | 43.9% |
| Nimzowitsch Defense | 292 | 131 | 141 | 20 | 44.9% |
| Daily Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Center Game Accepted Normal Variation | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% |
| Scandinavian Defense Mieses Kotrc Variation | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 25.0% |
| Queens Pawn Opening Chigorin Variation | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 40.0% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33.3% |
| Queens Pawn Opening | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Queens Pawn Opening Accelerated London System | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Pirc Defense Maroczy Defense | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| French Defense Advance Variation | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Center Game | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Birds Opening Dutch Variation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Rapid Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scandinavian Defense Mieses Kotrc Variation | 13 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 23.1% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 11 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 27.3% |
| Queens Pawn Opening | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20.0% |
| Scandinavian Defense Closed | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20.0% |
| Van t Kruijs Opening | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.3% |
| Kings Pawn Opening Kings Knight Variation | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 66.7% |
| Petrovs Defense | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.3% |
| Bishops Opening Berlin Defense | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.3% |
| French Defense Normal Variation | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Queens Pawn Opening Mikenas Defense | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Bullet Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scandinavian Defense Mieses Kotrc Variation | 336 | 161 | 174 | 1 | 47.9% |
| Scandinavian Defense | 274 | 144 | 129 | 1 | 52.5% |
| Center Game | 183 | 110 | 71 | 2 | 60.1% |
| Center Game Accepted Normal Variation | 112 | 46 | 66 | 0 | 41.1% |
| Pirc Defense Maroczy Defense | 84 | 28 | 55 | 1 | 33.3% |
| Queens Pawn Opening | 77 | 34 | 43 | 0 | 44.2% |
| Nimzowitsch Defense Kennedy Paulsen Attack | 74 | 37 | 36 | 1 | 50.0% |
| Center Game Accepted | 57 | 32 | 25 | 0 | 56.1% |
| French Defense Normal Variation | 57 | 25 | 32 | 0 | 43.9% |
| Van t Kruijs Opening | 55 | 31 | 24 | 0 | 56.4% |
🔥 Streaks
| Streak | Longest | Current |
|---|---|---|
| Winning | 19 | 0 |
| Losing | 11 | 3 |