Volodya Torosyan: Candidate Master at Bullet Speed
Meet Volodya Torosyan, known to opponents and algorithms alike as Torosyan_chess. He holds the FIDE Candidate Master (CM) title, but his true home is the online bullet chess arena, where games last about as long as a sneeze and he has been known to play 300 of them in a single month. If chess is a game of patience, Volodya is the guy honking from the fast lane.
From Kiddie Pool to Deep Water: The Rise
Volodya's rating graph is less a curve and more a ski jump. His first recorded month, December 2022, featured a flawless 12-0 bullet record at the 550 level, which is a polite way of saying he was a shark in a kiddie pool. The climb only accelerated: past 1700 by the end of 2023, past 2600 by late 2024, and then straight into open water. In October 2026 he posted career bests of 2933 (2026-10-04) in bullet and 3011 (2026-10-04) in blitz on the very same day, a double peak suggesting the man cannot be stopped by conventional means.
Along the way he assembled a 27-game winning streak and logged 302 bullet games in September 2025 alone, roughly ten per day, which he reportedly considers a rest week.
Opening Repertoire: Chaos, but With a License
His signature is the Nimzo-Larsen Attack, 1.b3, played from both sides of the board at a 76% bullet win rate, the chess equivalent of ambidextrous gluttony. He also scores nearly 80% with the Australian Defense, around 71% with the Alekhine Defense, and somehow makes the Scandinavian Defense a feared weapon with the White pieces. Most impressively, he keeps the Amar Gambit, an opening most grandmasters only touch to lose bets, at a healthy 60% across 133 games.
A taste of his favorite way to start trouble:
He even farms wins in a Colle System line named after a pterodactyl, the Rhamphorhynchus Variation, which is only fitting for a player whose attack swoops down on your king without warning.
Favourite Victims and One Honest Kryptonite
No one on the internet has faced Volodya more than Arman_Vardanyan: 556 games, 410 wins for Volodya, a rivalry that has graduated into volunteer work. raaaaaaaaaa1 (169-15) and ashot_ayvazyan (111-25) have also paid the toll. But every hero has a villain: Davit_Tiraturyan leads their head-to-head 23-10, and a suspiciously similarly named account, Tiraturyan_Chessmood1991, adds a 20-10 edge. Whether that is one determined person with two logins or two determined people with one plan remains the great unsolved case of Volodya's career.
The 11 PM Assassin and Other Quirks
- His win rate at 23:00 is a terrifying 78%, making midnight his natural habitat. Thursday is his best day of the week.
- An 81% early resignation rate: when the position is lost, Volodya politely declines to waste your clock or his dignity.
- He is nearly unkillable: an 85% comeback rate, and he still wins 56% of games even after dropping a piece.
- Tilt factor: 12 out of 100. Trash talk bounces off him like arrows off a rook.
- Despite bullet speed, most of his wins grind through the endgame, averaging 82 moves per victory. He will happily out-hike you with 12 seconds on the clock.
- He has won 117 games by checkmate and exactly zero by stalemate, having accepted his nine stalemate draws the way one accepts a parking ticket.
The Bottom Line
Volodya Torosyan is the rare Candidate Master who treats bullet chess and blitz chess like an endurance sport and win rate charts like a personal diary. Four years in, the scoreboard says it all: thousands of games, a mountain-shaped rating graph, and one nemesis still at large. Play him at 11 PM at your own risk.