Anay Agarwal

Welcome to the Grind

Few players embody the phrase "just one more game" quite like Anay Agarwal. Known to the online chess world as TheAwesome_Anay, he has stacked up nearly 14,000 games since early 2026, most of them in bullet, all while quietly building one of the more entertaining blitz climbs you will ever see. His preferred battlefield is blitz, where the games are fast, the egos are fragile, and the clock is always the third player at the board.

The Great Blitz Climb

In the spring of 2026, Anay's blitz rating sagged into the mid-1600s, and a lesser man would have blamed the openings, the internet, or sunspots. Instead, he simply played more. A lot more. By autumn he had rocketed to a peak of 2402 (2026-09-29), converting a rocky start into a genuine statement season. The chart below tells the story of a man who fell down the stairs and then decided to buy the building.

The Bullet Factory

Blitz may be his home, but bullet is his factory floor: more than 12,000 bullet games and a peak of 2601 (2026-09-05), plus a recent rapid milestone of 2061 (2026-10-10). A jaw-dropping 3,745 of his wins overall came by timeout, proving that in Anay's universe the flag is a fully legal chess piece. And he never makes it easy for opponents: he resigns early in only about 2% of his games, and when the position turns ugly, his 85% comeback rate means the evaluation bar has been wrong about him before.

Openings: e4 Today, e4 Tomorrow

Anay opens with 1.e4 in roughly 85% of his White games and lets the diagram do the talking. The repertoire is equal parts main lines and mischief:

• Scandinavian Defense: His signature, with over 1,600 games and a 55% win rate in bullet. The setup appears below.
• Amar Gambit: More than 1,500 bullet games of glorious weirdness, because normal openings are for other people.
• Caro-Kann Defense: His blitz secret weapon, winning over 60% of the time.
• French Defense: Nearly 1,000 bullet games of pawn-chain grinding.
• Blackburne Shilling Gambit: A trap older than the internet, still doing numbers.

The Nemesis Files

Every hero needs a villain, and Anay has two. Against Alexey Korotylev the ledger reads a heroic 6 wins against 181 losses, a rivalry so one-sided it deserves a documentary. shnitez chips in with 2 wins and 113 losses for good measure. But Anay collects tolls of his own: he stands a thunderous 183-38 against one_moun and a dominant 180-37 against orionsamx. In a quieter moral tragedy, he currently trails 47-64 against a player named dont_be_boring, which the username in question presumably finds hilarious.

The 3 A.M. Chess God

Statistically, Anay is untouchable at 3:00 in the morning, winning nearly 65% of his games, and fully human by 5:00 AM at under 14%. Midnight is a losing proposition best avoided. Tuesday is his strongest day of the week; Wednesday is when hope goes to rest. He also owns both a 31-game winning streak and a 33-game losing streak, which means somewhere in 2026 the chess gods simply flipped a switch and walked away.

How He Plays

• Endgame fighter: three quarters of his games grind into the endgame, averaging about 74 moves.
• Nearly 47% win rate even after dropping a piece, because he never reads the script.
• Rook aficionado: his most common checking piece is the rook, deployed over 12,000 times.
• Win rate dips slightly in rated play versus casual, a rare and honest confession.