Cameron Clarkson Chess Biography: Meet tajihakimaziz
Two Names, One Eccentric Career
Cameron Clarkson, known on the board as tajihakimaziz, has been quietly building one of online chess's more eccentric careers since July 2018. The ledger now holds more than 12,000 rated games across blitz, rapid, daily, and bullet chess, and the preferred time control on file is Rapid. Somewhere along the way the account developed a mild identity crisis: it answers to Cameron Clarkson on paper and tajihakimaziz at the board. Both names deserve the spotlight, because this is a story of obscure openings, endless endgames, and one legendary rivalry.
The Rapid Debut and the One-Game Peak
Rapid chess arrived in September 2020 with a debut month of ten games and ten losses. Redemption followed, fast and strange: in December 2020, Clarkson played exactly one rated rapid game, won it, and the rating system answered with a career-best mark (1477 (2020-12-05)). Some players grind a hundred games for a peak; this one arrived gift-wrapped in a single sitting. The years since have been a slower, wobblier climb, as the long view shows:
Rivals and Nemeses: The kinghunter74 Files
Every grinder needs a nemesis, and Clarkson found the final boss: kinghunter74. The two have clashed 440 times, with Clarkson winning 15, drawing 5, and losing 420, a series that has outlasted most marriages and several operating systems. The wall of thorns also features T.C. Hall (4-22) and gilligan18 (1-20). It is not all grim, though: against smackmyb1shop the record is a winning 14-7, and uncagedboss sits level at 13-12-2, proof that balanced rivalries exist. A 33-game losing streak lurking in the records suggests the wall of thorns occasionally becomes a highway.
Opening Repertoire: Amazon Attack, French Defense, and Other Rare Birds
As White, the answer to nearly everything since 2019 is d4, usually followed by the Amazon Attack, an obscure pet system with over 2,000 appearances across all four time controls. Its Siberian Attack branch even wins about 60% of bullet games, and the Australian Defense adds roughly 1,450 more games of unorthodox flavor. Black is French Defense country: around 1,200 games, a healthy 57% win rate in rapid chess, plus detours into the Blackburne Shilling Gambit and the Barnes Defense. Opponents who open with the Amar Gambit have been punished across 200-plus blitz meetings. The one forbidden zone: the French Exchange in daily chess, a 3-31-3 graveyard that suggests slow play and that trade simply do not mix.
Playing Style: The Endgame Survivor
This is an endgame survivor above all else. Nearly 63% of games reach an endgame, early resignation happens just 2% of the time, and comebacks land in roughly 73% of salvageable positions. Even after dropping a whole piece, Clarkson still wins 40% of the time, and outright one-sided defeats occur under 4% of the time. Games run long, about 60 moves on average, with the first capture often waiting until move 6. When checks are needed, the queen does the talking, having delivered nearly 15,000 of them. White wins 48% of games; Black wins 42.5%, a familiar gap for a d4 loyalist.
Blitz Volume and the 4 PM Sweet Spot
Blitz is the main stage: 8,600-plus games, with a peak of 1306 reached in June 2023 after a legitimately grinding 262-game month. Daily chess peaked on Christmas Day 2022 at 1349, courtesy of a genuinely strong 22-7 stretch. The clock itself matters: the best hour of the day is 4 PM, where the win rate climbs above 51%, while 5 AM sits at a sleepy 37%. Casual games also suit this player far better than rated ones, a 24-point swing, and the tilt factor holds at a manageable 33. Translation: play at tea time, not at dawn.
The Bottom Line on Cameron Clarkson
This is not a prodigy story; it is a persistence story. More than 12,000 games, 5,453 wins, a peak achieved in one flawless December 2020 game, a 440-game feud with kinghunter74, and a refusal to resign early. Somewhere between the 15-game winning streaks and the 33-game losing streaks, Clarkson just keeps showing up. If kinghunter74 is reading this: game 441 awaits.