SoupSailor: The Oceanic Bullet Mariner
SoupSailor is a name that strikes both fear and fascination in online chess. A player of enormous volume and even larger ambition, SoupSailor has turned bullet chess into a personal ocean, sailing through tens of thousands of games with a mix of fearless gambits and relentless endgame grinding. The data shows a peak bullet rating of 3105 (2025-09-29), a mark that places SoupSailor among the most dangerous speed chess navigators on the platform.
A Life in Bullet
SoupSailor's heart belongs to bullet chess. With over 19,000 bullet wins and a total game count that dwarfs most players' combined careers, the sheer volume is staggering. Month after month, the game count climbs into the thousands, with win rates staying consistently above water. The rating chart tells the story of a player who improved relentlessly, with occasional dips that only made the next wave higher.
captures the journey from a promising 1300 to the summit of the speed chess ocean.Rapid and blitz also saw strong progress, with a rapid peak of 2292 (2026-03-21) and a blitz peak of 2440 (2026-06-29), but bullet is clearly the native habitat. SoupSailor is a sprinter at heart, and the clock is the true opponent.
Signature Openings
SoupSailor is not a player who hides behind dry theory. The opening repertoire is adventurous, even tropical in flavor. The Amar Gambit appears over 5,000 times in bullet, a bizarre and unorthodox first move that SoupSailor has turned into a genuine scoring weapon. On the black side, the Caro-Kann Defense is the steady ship, with nearly 3,000 bullet games as Black. Add the Sicilian Defense Alapin Variation and the Scandinavian Defense to the mix, and a clear pattern emerges: solid structures that transition quickly into an endgame SoupSailor knows how to pilot.
The opening performance chart below shows exactly where the wins come from, and it is a valuable map for anyone hoping to survive the voyage:
Rivalries at Sea
With volume comes familiarity, and SoupSailor has developed genuine rivalries. Against Bu11et_Pr00f, the two have clashed over 700 times, with SoupSailor holding a narrow but meaningful edge in a long-running war. The rivalry with Kent Slate is a different story entirely, a rare kryptonite where the scoreboard tilts heavily the other way, proving even the best sailors meet an unfavorable current. And then there is joshuagarry, a frequent dance partner who brings out the tactical best in SoupSailor across nearly 600 games.
Resilience and Sacrifice
The most remarkable number in the SoupSailor file is the 107-game winning streak. Very few players in any time control can string together that many consecutive victories without the wind shifting. Yet the path is not always smooth: a 50-game losing streak proves that even great sailors hit storms. What defines SoupSailor is the recovery. A comeback rate of 82.41% shows a player who refuses to sink after losing material, and a 50.95% win rate after losing a piece borders on the supernatural. Opponents who celebrate an early advantage often find themselves walking the plank moments later.
Style Notes
- Best hours: 13:00, a lunch break that regularly turns into a massacre
- White win rate: 55.63%, Black win rate: 52.63%, with a slight preference for the first move
- Averages about 2.81 checks per game and delivers the first check just over half the time
- Rarely suffers one-sided losses, with only 1.55% of games falling into that category
- Games frequently end early because opponents throw in the towel and head for the lifeboats