Profile
Sergey Eliseev, who battles online as VM2027, is a FIDE Master with an appetite for marathon sessions. His main stage is Blitz, where he has piled up thousands of games and reached a peak rating of 2673 (2025-11-27). In bullet, the faster cousin, he peaked at 2777 (2025-09-05). If there were an endurance title, he would hold it.
The Long Climb
In January 2019, Eliseev was a developing player with a Blitz rating floating between 1245 and 1506. A burst of activity that August brought 106 games and a jump to 1823. The real explosion arrived in 2023, when he transformed from a 2000-level talent into a player pushing past 2400 while playing with the volume of a full-time professional. December 2023 alone saw 622 rated Blitz games; February and March 2024 added 458 and 410 more.
By February 2025 he cracked 2600, and in November 2025 he reached his all-time Blitz high of 2673. The climb from near 1250 to 2673 (2025-11-27) took less than seven years and thousands of hard-fought games.
Playing Style: The Comeback Artist
Eliseev plays long, grinding battles. His wins average 85 moves, and more than 82% of his games reach an endgame. He almost never resigns early, only 1.7% of the time, and he rescues lost positions with alarming frequency. His comeback rate is 87.64%, and even after dropping a piece he still wins nearly half of his games. Opponents cannot count him out until the very last move.
Opening Repertoire
As White, Eliseev avoids the well-trodden paths. He happily plays the Nimzo-Larsen Attack with 1.b3, and he has a soft spot for the offbeat Amar Gambit. He also scores well with the Caro-Kann Defense Exchange Variation and the French Defense Exchange Variant, suggesting a taste for simplified structures with subtle long-term pressure.
As Black, he is a dedicated Sicilian Defense soldier. The Najdorf Variation appears in more than 100 of his Blitz games even though it is one of his weakest major lines, a true love-hate relationship. He rounds out his black repertoire with the Caro-Kann Defense and the Scandinavian Defense.
Rivalries
Regular opponents define an online career. Eliseev's most frequent foe is Peder Aamodt, with 150 meetings and a nearly even score. He also clashes constantly with veryprivateaccount, who leads 72 to 44 over 148 games with 32 draws. The most painful rivalry is with Valery Popov, who dominates 40 to 6 across 51 games. Some rivalries are lessons, and he keeps showing up to class.
Habits and Numbers
- Best hour to play: 06:00, when his win rate climbs to 68.75%
- Tilt factor of 12, proof that even grinders have bad days
- Longest winning streak of 12 and longest losing streak of 12, perfectly balanced
- The rook is his favorite checking piece, accounting for thousands of checks
- He wins 63.82% of games against lower-rated opposition and a resilient 48.78% against equal-rated rivals