The King Who Rules the Board
TheKingOfTheForest is a National Master whose handle promises woodland royalty and whose play delivers it. With more than 55,000 rated games across bullet, blitz, rapid, and daily chess, he has spent enough hours at the board to reforest a small country. His preferred time control may be Daily chess, where his strength-adjusted win rate climbs near 69 percent and his record is a tidy 20 wins, 2 losses, and 1 draw, but he has also ruled the faster formats. He reached 2633 (2026-06-15) in bullet and 2575 (2026-06-12) in blitz, proof that old trees can still move quickly when the wind picks up.
An Opening Repertoire Grown in the Wild
As white, TheKingOfTheForest rarely strays far from 1.d4, preferring quiet systems that lull opponents into a false sense of safety. As black, he is a creature of habit with a twist: the Alekhine Defense appears in more than 5,500 of his bullet games, while the Dutch Defense and the French Defense anchor his blitz and rapid play. He also happily plays oddities like the Colle Rhamphorhynchus Variation and the Amar Gambit, which makes preparing for him feel like wandering into a forest without a map.
The Grinder Who Never Surrenders
If one word describes TheKingOfTheForest, it is persistence. His decisive games routinely stretch past 85 moves, and his endgame frequency sits near 88 percent. He wins 88 percent of the time even after losing material, and he has collected more than 13,000 victories by timeout, which is a polite way of saying he flags opponents with the patience of a falling leaf. His longest winning streak reached 20 games, and his longest losing streak hit 15, so the king also knows what it feels like when the forest grows dark.
His finest hours arrive around 3:00 AM, suggesting he does his best ruling while the rest of the world sleeps. His tilt factor is a modest 15, and his comeback rate is elite, so opponents should never celebrate early after winning a piece.
Forest Facts
- 55,985 rated games and counting, with bullet making up most of the logging.
- A 20 game winning streak and a 15 game losing streak, because even kings have stormy seasons.
- An 88 percent comeback rate after losing material, so the game is never over until the last leaf falls.
- A preferred play time of 3:00 AM, when the forest is quiet and the rating points are ripe.
Rivalries in the Wild
No monarch rules alone, and TheKingOfTheForest has faced a handful of rivals so often they might as well be courtiers. Eddy Osei has crossed swords with him 233 times, making them the most frequent visitor to the royal forest. Biculi has played him 209 times and can confirm the king is hard to dethrone, having lost 130 of those meetings. Others such as Дмитрий Залесский, Dejan Dinev, and Pavel Zpěvák have spent hundreds of games trying to chop down the old tree, with mixed results.