Profile
Sameh Sadek, known on the board as samehsadek, is a FIDE Master who clearly believes that the best way to play chess is to make the clock sweat. If there is an opening, a gambit, or a messy middlegame in the building, Same will probably find it before you do. His online record is a love letter to the bullet time control, with thousands of games played in moments that most players would need a full lunch hour to recover from.
He is a fighter, even when things look grim. A come-from-behind rate above 77% and a patience in the endgame prove that he would rather walk through the fire than hand the flag to his opponent. His longest winning streak reached 13 games, while his longest losing streak stretched to 12; the yoyo may be real, but so is his joy of playing.
The Bullet Marathon
Sameh Sadek is at home when the seconds are disappearing. The stats respect the bullet board with more than 5,000 recorded bullet games and a peak rating that nudged near 2599 (2026-05-09). His
tells the story of an online player who climbs, plunges, and somehow returns for the next rematch.His blitz also deserves a mention, because his best afternoon at the Blitz board reached an even more fearsome number. None of it is accidental; he is comfortable attacking from the board and digging into the endgame.
Friend Among Sharp Openings
Openings are the first battlefield for sameh, and his favourites include the flexible Australian front, the rich Sicilian Defence, and the Colle System. In rapid events alone, he has shown a 100% score with the Scotch Game and the Italian tactics. He also supports the modern set-ups, and he is not afraid to walk into strange gambit lanes if it means creating a board.
His opening results across all formats are best appreciated with a picture:
Rivalries
No biography is complete without rivals. Sameh has a long account with Ibrahim Hassan, where he holds a positive 11-7 balance. Against LadyCockroach it is told a different story, one where the mad name owns the head-to-head in the lethal way that keeps a player coming back for revenge. None of these opponents has been able to stop the trademark volume of his online campaigns.
Style and Spirit
Need data says it all: he is not the type to click resign at the first sign of trouble. His games last 65 moves on average in his wins, and a bit over 70 in his losses, which means he is usually outlasted rather than outplayed. He also continues after losing a piece, with a win rate after material loss of 43%, as if the queen were just a suggestion.
Play him with white, by the way, and his clock becomes more alert. Have as white or black? Winners celebrate with care. The story of Sameh Sadek is not about a perfect rating; it is about an appetite for chess.