Meet Timur Kocharin
Timur Kocharin, known to the chess world as Tactican_228, is a FIDE Master whose online rating graph looks less like a career and more like a rocket launch. While his Rapid play stays comfortably grounded, his Blitz rating has climbed past 2900 and peaked at 2980 in July 2026. That is one staircase away from the mythical 3000 club, and the chess world is watching.
A Blitz Specialist With a Bullet Side Hustle
Kocharin prefers the fast lane. His preferred time control is Blitz, and the numbers explain why. He has played thousands of Blitz games with a strength adjusted win rate just above 50 percent, while his Bullet rating has also touched 2765. He is equally dangerous wielding the Caro-Kann Defense as Black and the Amazon Attack as White, two openings that appear hundreds of times in his record.
Fighting Spirit and Comebacks
Kocharin does not go quietly. His comeback rate sits at 89.7 percent, and even after losing a piece he still wins 42.38 percent of the time. His longest winning streak is 12 games, though his longest losing streak of 14 proves that even tacticians have their off nights. When he lands the first check, he wins 52.44 percent of the time, so he clearly likes to strike early and let the clock do the rest.
Rivalries
Every hero needs a nemesis. Against Oleksandr Bortnyk and Yoseph Theolifus Taher, Kocharin has struggled, with losing records that would make most players switch to correspondence chess. Against Julius Muckle, however, he rules the graveyard with 17 wins to 9 losses. His battles with Karina Ambartsumova are the definition of a coin flip: 12 wins, 11 losses, and 3 draws.
Habits and Quirks
Kocharin is a morning person, at least on the chessboard. His win rate at 6:00 AM is a stunning 65.43 percent, while playing at midnight drops to a chilly 15.38 percent. Thursday is his lucky day with a 48.97 percent win rate, and Tuesday is apparently his day of rest, or perhaps his day of suffering, at 41.83 percent. He also carries a tilt factor of 14, which is a fancy way of saying he feels the losses deeply, but he always queues up for the next game anyway.