Sarthak Gattani: The SuperAwesome Rise of SuperAwesomeSarthak
Sarthak Gattani, known across the online chess world as SuperAwesomeSarthak, is a National Master whose blitz chess career is one of the great grind-it-out stories of the internet era. In July 2021, he logged on for his first rated blitz games and proudly established a rating of 662. Five years later, he had clawed, tilted, and trick-lined his way to a peak blitz rating of 2709 (2026-07-24). That is not a typo. That is roughly 2,000 rating points of pure stubbornness.
From 662 to the Top: A Blitz Ascension
The chart above resembles a ski jump, except the skier only goes up. Sarthak crossed 1300 in the spring of 2022, hit 1800 by that summer, and broke 2000 in 2023. Then came the grind: in July 2026 alone he played 490 blitz games, at one point pushing his rating all the way to 2709 (2026-07-24). His career blitz record of 1,591 wins against 1,521 losses and 249 draws is a nearly perfect portrait of a man who refuses to stop queueing.
Opening Repertoire: Chaos, With a Plan
Sarthak's repertoire reads like a dartboard. With White, he has logged hundreds of games in the Poisoned Pawn lines of the London System, a setup that invites an early queen raid and then dares you to prove something. He also holds a genuine soft spot for the Amar Gambit, having played it over 700 times in bullet with a positive score, which is roughly 700 more times than any coach would recommend.
With Black, his calling card is the trap-filled troll known as the Blackburne Shilling Gambit, wielded to a 65 percent blitz win rate, alongside the Australian Defense, which he plays at a frankly disrespectful 93.75 percent in rapid chess. Yes, his Czech Defense wins under 35 percent of the time, but nobody said the dartboard always lands where you want. For a deeper look at his signature weapons, see his Amazon Attack results, an opening apparently named after a piece that moves like a queen and a knight, which is fitting.
Nemeses, Rivals, and the badiiplayer Marathon
Every online grinder collects rivals, and Sarthak collects them by the bushel. His 106-game series with badiiplayer stands at a hard-fought 51 wins, 37 losses, and 18 draws. Against tianze_the_best, it was open season: 63 wins, 7 losses, 3 draws. And then there is Ephraim Rosenstock, his personal final boss. Across 82 games, Sarthak has gone 18 wins against 59 losses, and yet the series continues, which is either admirably defiant or the textbook definition of tilting. To be fair, he leads the all-time series in games played, so there is that.
Style: The Comeback Grind Machine
Statistically, Sarthak is the opponent you do not celebrate early against. His early resignation rate is a minuscule 1.82 percent, and he swallows a losing-looking position and turns it into a win 82.79 percent of the time. Over 81 percent of his games reach an endgame, and his wins average 78 moves while his losses stretch to 84, meaning that even when you beat him, you will feel like you ran a marathon in flip-flops.
Quirks and Fun Facts
- His win rate at 11:00 AM is a ludicrous 91.67 percent. At 8:00 AM it collapses to 10.71 percent. The man is not a morning person, and neither, apparently, is his rating.
- In November 2023, he played 42 daily chess games and lost 41 of them, an implosion so spectacular his daily rating never emotionally recovered. He got his revenge elsewhere, on a personal best 25-game winning streak.
- His longest losing streak? 42 games. He refers to it, we assume, as character development.
- His most common checking piece is the queen, with over 8,400 career checks. The king has checked 41 times, presumably by accident.
- His rated games cost him about 14 percentage points of win rate compared to casual play. The stakes are real, and so is the username.
Legacy of a National Master
Whether you meet him in a 3 a.m. bullet arena or watch him roll out the Amar Gambit for the 740th time, Sarthak Gattani is living proof that the road from 662 to National Master is paved with thousands of games, one 42-game losing streak, and the unshakable belief that the next Giuoco Piano is going to be the one. Study his blitz chart, check the clock before challenging him, and remember: if SuperAwesomeSarthak ever resigns early, it is probably 8 a.m.