A P

A P (term1tzzz): The Comeback Grinder of Online Chess

A P, known to the scoreboard as term1tzzz, has been grinding online chess since February 2015, when the account debuted with a bullet rating briefly parked in the high 800s. Since then, the numbers tell a story of stubbornness: more than 5,700 wins across over 12,500 games, with peak marks of 2352 (2026-04-24) in Rapid, 2501 (2026-08-29) in Blitz, and a frankly rude 2653 (2026-07-16) in Bullet. Rapid is the preferred battlefield, where A P has collected 648 wins, 119 draws, and 561 losses, most of them earned the hard way.

Origin Story: From e4 Evangelist to d4 Loyalist

The early years were pure 1.e4. In 2015, the king pawn was pushed 532 times while d4 appeared exactly once, a lonely little d-pawn that presumably wandered off by mistake. Then came the great conversion of 2016: d4 took over with 425 appearances and e4 was reduced to a ceremonial 30. By 2026, e4 had all but retired with four appearances, d4 anchored 803 games, and a new obsession with 1.b3 surfaced 130 times. A quiet moral journey, completed.

Black Repertoire: The Caro-Kann Fortress

As Black, the Caro-Kann Defense is the wall, appearing in more than 1,100 games across all time controls. The Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange Variation is the workhorse, backed by the Slav Defense and the King's Indian Defense. And then there is the Blackburne Shilling Gambit, nominally a trap, which A P treats like a home-cooked recipe: nearly 64% of Rapid games featuring it end in wins, and a startling 72% when A P has Black.

White Repertoire: London and Other Experiments

With the white pieces, the London System is the default, often drifting into Poisoned Pawn adventures. The Döry Defense has been a quiet MVP in Rapid, the Amazon Attack adds early-queen spice, and the Colle System's Rhamphorhynchus Variation made cameo appearances, which sounds less like an opening and more like a pterodactyl. Bullet foes who answer 1.d4 with the Hungarian Opening's Wiedenhagen-Beta Gambit have met it 154 times, which deserves some kind of endurance medal.

Rivalries: One Perfect Record, One Nemesis

• zxcvitalikzxc: 16 games, 16 wins, zero losses. A flawless record. See the latest chapter.
• allexo: the nemesis. 16 meetings, 12 losses, 4 wins. Every hero needs a villain. A recent attempt at revenge.
• D L: 23 games, the longest-running series on the account, dead even at 12-10-1. Practically a sitcom.
• sayok57: 12-2-2, firmly in A P's pocket.
• pancakes_with_cream: 9-3, and the finest username in the record books.

Style: The Eighty-Move Marathoner

A P's wins are not sprints, they are marches. The average victory lasts nearly 80 moves, 77.9% of games reach an endgame, and the early resignation rate of just 2.44% means this player simply does not leave the board. Drop a piece on A P? A P still wins 43.2% of those games, and the comeback rate sits at a stubborn 80%. Even defeats are rarely one-sided, with only 3.78% of losses coming as flat demolitions, and a tilt factor of 16 confirms the ice in the veins.

There is also a clock-based hunting style at work: 2,355 wins by timeout versus 1,146 checkmate wins. More opponents have drowned on the clock than been mated. The 104 stalemate draws are simply the politest way to split a point.

The Long March: Career Arc

The first five years simmered through the 1600s and 1700s. Then 2020 happened, the world stayed home, and A P played, and played, and played. A July 2021 sprint of 180 Rapid games in one month carried the account past the 2000 mark, and a July 2024 marathon of 134 games pushed it into the 2300s, where it settled comfortably by 2026. The longest winning streak stands at 19 games. The longest losing streak, 16, is best left unspoken.

By the Numbers

• Over 12,500 analyzed games and counting: the rook is the signature checking piece with more than 10,000 rook checks delivered. The queen owned the early years, the rook owns the career.
• The 11 AM hour is the sweet spot with a 51.3% win rate. The 2 AM hour is a harrowing 11.8%. The 2 AM self is a different chess player, and not in a good way.
• Mondays are statistically the best day to be A P. Friday feeling is apparently overrated.
• Casual games produce a win rate about 10.8 points better than rated ones. Rated chess makes everyone sweat.
• Against higher-rated opposition the win rate drops to 29%, against lower-rated foes it climbs to 69%. A P is exactly as dangerous as the seeding says.

The Bottom Line

A P is living proof that chess improvement is less about fireworks and more about showing up, again and again, with a fortress of Caro-Kanns and a rook ready to check. With 648 Rapid wins banked, a perfect scalp list, and an unbroken willingness to play one more game, the term1tzzz project remains very much under construction, and the construction crew never clocks out early.