Meet the Teacher
Zvonko "Ucitelot" born "Stanojoski" is a Grandmaster from today's Balkan chess teacher digital version. The username is Macedonian for "the teacher," and he has one grading system: the chessboard. After an endless shift of 21,000+ blitz games he still finds time to give up a lesson or two before breakfast, often between 6:00 AM and coffee.
Twenty-One Thousand Lessons
If you see a chess player with more games than some leagues play in a lifetime, you are looking at Ucitelot. His blitz ledger shows 12,399 wins, 2,582 draws, and 6,230 times "detention was issued to the other guy." That's a record only a true teacher can keep.
- Highest rated blitz ever seen: 2727 (2025-10-08)
- Once won 27 games on the bounce. Students of the 1.d4 school cheer from the back row.
- Comeback rate 85.08%. A week out down a massive royal, he is still two exams ahead.
- Early resignation rate 0.14, so he almost never graduates to "easier for the opponent".
The Lecturer's Fingerprints
Ucitelot's opening dojo has a few favorite chapters. In white sleeves he preaches the Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation with a customizing 63.39% score. When the assignment needs a little heroism, he signs off on the Benko Gambit from the black side. And when time dashes are the espada, the English Opening with 59.96% overall win rate but near 69% in the Anglo-Indian line, fits his shrewd style.
His opening report suggests he lives neck deep in the Sicilian Defense and caro-kann replies, but not as a book reporter. See the chart, then go sit at the desk:
Example. The best class is around.
Class Reps and Rivalries
When Ucitelot teaches the same opponent 312 times, it's not a rivalry, it's a tribunal. His most frequent student of the square is michael124667, who has lost 160 of those encounters. With self-discipline that would make a principal smile, he has handed 84 losses (let's say, a teacher)