A FIDE Master with a Secret Soft Spot
Raghav Vijay, known on the board as vraghav2010, is a FIDE Master with a wonderfully confusing chess identity. He has spent more than 8,000 recorded games turning blitz and bullet into a contact sport, and yet the data suggests his preferred time control is Daily. That is not a contradiction. That is a chess player, a monk, or possibly both.
From Unknown to Monster
Raghav's blitz rating starts somewhere in the humble 1,200s back in 2016 and then does what you would expect from someone who treats the clock like a suggestion: it keeps climbing. A few years later he sits near 2864 (2026-06-13) in Blitz and 2815 (2025-12-24) in Bullet, which is more than enough to make a tournament hall stop and stare.
- Longest winning streak: 22 games
- Longest losing streak: 10 games
- Comeback rate: 86.22%
- One-sided loss rate: only 3.6%
Losing a piece does not mean losing the game, at least not at his board. His win rate after dropping material is 53.68%, and about 79% of his games eventually find an endgame. He is the opponent who makes you work for absolutely everything.
The Opening Repertoire
Raghav's opening tastes do not look like a normal coach's PowerPoint. He will happily walk with you into the Blackburne Shilling Gambit, pull out the Caro-Kann Defense with a smirking level of solidity, and then test your patience, especially when he is black in the Sicilian Defense. His win rate there is 68% in blitz, which is both scary and admirable.
A typical fancy starts with a very respectable line:
. Then, of course, he will play for another 80 moves because mercy is not in the book.Rivalries and a Delivery Route
His most frequent opponent by a gap is rajkamal0, with 293 games together and a score that reads like identity theft: 142 wins, 133 losses, and 18 draws. This is a real rivalry. Just below that sits vijayhaasan2002, where Raghav has 218 wins against 5 losses. That is not a rivalry, that is a friendly postal route.
Daily: The Quiet Garden
For all that chaos, the chess algorithm says his preferred time control is Daily. Raghav appears to use Daily as a sort of chess retreat: eight recorded games, four wins, three draws, and one loss, with a modest 1364 (2026-07-27) peak of 1364. In a world full of 2,800 bullet and blitz monsters, that might be his most impressive flex. He can play at hyperspeed all night, and still, when nobody is watching, he chooses the gentle 24 hour game.