Ислом Синдаров - The Candidate Master with a Checkered Past
Meet Ислом Синдаров, also known in the chess terrarium as sindarovjr, a Candidate Master whose sharp tactical claws have clawed their way through thousands of blitz and bullet games. With a FIDE title that proudly proclaims mastery, Ислом is no mere pawn on the board of life but a fierce predator hunting for checkmates and toppling kings.
Ислом’s rating has blossomed like a well-nurtured piece in the garden of chess evolution: from a sprightly blitz rating of around 2180 in 2022 to a ferocious bullet peak rating touching a rare 2900 by 2025 — talk about exponential growth, a true biological adaptation for the digital forest of speed chess. In rapid games, Ислом’s steady and patient growth shows a stronghold in positional biology, calculating each move with care.
Known for a cockroach-like resilience, Ислом boasts an astonishing 86.58% comeback rate — even when losing a piece, the win rate is a clean 100%. It seems the genetic mutation of resilience is well embedded in their play style, maintaining composure with a tilt factor of only 7 and rarely throwing in the towel early (just 2.23% early resignation rate). With an average of 72+ moves per win, Ислом prefers nurturing the game to maturity, proving that patience truly is a virtue — even in a fast-paced insect world of blitz and bullet.
Ислом’s playing style is balanced for both light and dark squares, with a win rate ~64% as White and ~62% as Black — an adaptable phenotype ready for any environmental challenge. Friendly to the environment of timed play, Ислом excels particularly at 9 AM (84.85% win rate) and Friday afternoons (60.22%), showing that their brain thrives in both early light and endgame shadows.
When it comes to opponents, Ислом has an impressively versatile record, boasting 100% wins against players like amylazy, tikhon_popov, and vovachesss, while learning from tougher challengers like danielnaroditsky with a modest but improving ~14% win rate.
Whether it’s darting through bullet games at lightning speed or carefully stalking victory in blitz, Ислом Sиндаров is a fascinating living specimen on the chess board — a biological marvel whose strategic DNA ensures the hunt for the perfect game never ends.
Ислом Синдаров - Game Review & Feedback
Great job on several of your recent wins, including your solid victory with White in the English Opening and your sharp play in various blitz games. Here are some constructive points to help you improve further:
Strengths:
- Opening Preparation: Your choice of openings like the English and Reti shows good understanding and flexibility. Your games demonstrate solid development and control of the center early on.
- Tactical Awareness: You capitalized well on opponents’ inaccuracies, converting material and positional advantages confidently, especially evident in your win by checkmate and effective piece coordination.
- Endgame Technique: In your wins, you showed patience and precision in the endgame, for example, using rook and bishop activity effectively to pressure and eventually force resignations.
Areas to Improve:
- Handling Complex Positions: In some losses, there were moments of allowing opponent counterplay in complicated middlegames. Working on calculation depth and clarity in tense positions can reduce tactical oversights.
- Time Management: Some games showed significant time consumption in critical moments. Try to balance your clock usage so you have enough time to calculate complicated positions in the late middlegame and endgame.
- Defensive Technique: A couple of losses came from gradually worsening positions instead of active defensive resources. Consider reviewing defensive motifs and practicing how to create counter-chances when under pressure.
Training Suggestions:
- Analyze key moments from your recent losses to identify patterns in mistakes or missed tactics.
- Practice calculation exercises focusing on middlegame complications to sharpen your visualization skills.
- Review endgame fundamentals, especially rook endings, to improve conversion under time pressure.
- Try playing with a fixed time budget per phase (e.g., complete opening moves under 10 minutes) to improve time management pace.
Keep up the consistent effort and continue building on your strengths. Your significant fighting spirit and opening repertoire already form a solid foundation for higher-level play!
🆚 Opponent Insights
| Recent Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| Andras Toth | 0W / 1L / 0D | View |
| Vedant P Kumbakonam | 1W / 0L / 0D | View |
| javicio | 0W / 1L / 0D | View |
| kirill_zaitsev | 1W / 0L / 0D | View |
| Dawid Niekraś | 1W / 0L / 0D | View |
| t1_blade | 1W / 0L / 0D | View |
| mrkazam | 1W / 0L / 0D | View |
| Joseph Levine | 3W / 4L / 0D | View |
| Shivam Pant | 4W / 1L / 0D | View |
| urielsidabutar | 0W / 0L / 1D | View |
| Most Played Opponents | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mukhiddin Madaminov | 51W / 57L / 5D | View Games |
| chef_zohid | 12W / 19L / 0D | View Games |
| Javokhir Sindarov | 5W / 15L / 0D | View Games |
| Netfare | 3W / 7L / 2D | View Games |
| grindingtoglory | 10W / 0L / 0D | View Games |
Rating
| Year | Bullet | Blitz | Rapid | Daily |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2843 | 2752 | 2153 | |
| 2024 | 1607 | 2188 | ||
| 2023 | 2284 | 2258 | 2185 | |
| 2022 | 1887 | 2182 |
Stats by Year
| Year | White | Black | Moves |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 344W / 186L / 28D | 300W / 230L / 40D | 66.4 |
| 2024 | 28W / 4L / 1D | 40W / 7L / 1D | 50.1 |
| 2023 | 20W / 4L / 2D | 23W / 6L / 0D | 71.9 |
| 2022 | 18W / 7L / 3D | 30W / 3L / 4D | 67.0 |
Openings: Most Played
| Blitz Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 211 | 103 | 102 | 6 | 48.8% |
| Amar Gambit | 58 | 44 | 11 | 3 | 75.9% |
| Modern | 40 | 23 | 14 | 3 | 57.5% |
| Hungarian Opening: Wiedenhagen-Beta Gambit | 23 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 56.5% |
| Nimzo-Larsen Attack | 22 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 77.3% |
| Czech Defense | 21 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 47.6% |
| Sicilian Defense | 19 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 63.2% |
| English Opening: Symmetrical Variation | 19 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 68.4% |
| Sicilian Defense: Closed | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 77.8% |
| King's Indian Attack | 17 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 47.1% |
| Bullet Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| King's Indian Attack | 61 | 40 | 18 | 3 | 65.6% |
| Colle System: Rhamphorhynchus Variation | 51 | 31 | 18 | 2 | 60.8% |
| Modern | 45 | 20 | 21 | 4 | 44.4% |
| Hungarian Opening: Wiedenhagen-Beta Gambit | 40 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 50.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Closed | 28 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 67.9% |
| Amar Gambit | 23 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 60.9% |
| Sicilian Defense | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 72.2% |
| East Indian Defense | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 66.7% |
| King's Indian Attack: French Variation | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 64.3% |
| Modern Defense: Pterodactyl Variation | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 53.9% |
| Rapid Opening | Games | Wins | Losses | Draws | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sicilian Defense: Nyezhmetdinov-Rossolimo Attack, Fianchetto Variation | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| QGD: Chigorin, 3.cxd5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% |
| King's Indian Attack | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Czech Defense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Italian Game: Two Knights Defense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Blackburne Shilling Gambit | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon, Modern Bc4 Variation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| English Opening: Carls-Bremen System | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
🔥 Streaks
| Streak | Longest | Current |
|---|---|---|
| Winning | 26 | 0 |
| Losing | 9 | 1 |