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Sai Raghav

Username: sairaghav

Playing Since: 2012-05-19 (Inactive)

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Daily: 984
13W / 32L / 3D
Rapid: 769
32W / 54L / 4D
Blitz: 612
7075W / 7156L / 943D
Bullet: 443
1049W / 1089L / 9D

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
Rating by Year201220142016201720182019202120222023202420251377443YearRatingBulletBlitzRapidDaily

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%
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