vve70 em: The Midnight d4 Grinder
Player Overview
vve70 em, known to matchmaking algorithms simply as vve70, is a veteran online battler whose chess identity starts with a single move: 1.d4. In thousands of recorded games, the king's pawn barely exists in their world. The stats show a player who believes in the quiet power of the queen pawn, steering nearly every game into rich positional territory.
Though the bulk of their 10,000+ rated battles are played in Blitz, vve70 em flags Bullet as the preferred time control. It is a fitting split personality: a player who spends hours grinding deep queen pawn structures, yet keeps a soft spot for the fastest format on the board.
Opening Repertoire and Style
vve70 em is a creature of habit. Year after year, the first move frequency is almost entirely d4, with occasional experiments that are statistically invisible. As White, they are at their best against the King's Indian Defense Exchange Variation, where they score over 51% in Blitz, and the Catalan Opening has also been kind to them. The Slav Defense: Alekhine Variation is their most visited battlefield overall, appearing in 570 Blitz games alone.
The engine says the playing style is stubborn and resourceful: 82.48% of games reach an endgame, and the average decisive game runs about 76 moves. vve70 em rarely blinks early, and the 87.96% comeback rate shows a player who will defend a lost position until the clock or the king gives out.
Rivalries and Key Opponents
Every grinder collects rivals, and vve70 em has a full trophy shelf. The most frequent dance partner is Polymath_man, who has faced vve70 em 30 times and holds a commanding 18 wins against 10 losses. Against KF3WIN and betajohn, the story flips: vve70 em leads both series, with 16 wins and 15 wins respectively in 27 game battles.
- vs Polymath_man: 10 wins, 18 losses, 2 draws in 30 games
- vs KF3WIN: 16 wins, 10 losses, 1 draw in 27 games
- vs betajohn: 15 wins, 11 losses, 1 draw in 27 games
Signature Quirks and Fun Facts
- Streak symmetry: longest winning streak is 15, and the longest losing streak is also 15. When vve70 em heats up or cools off, it tends to last exactly two weeks of games.
- The best time of day to face them is 03:00, their peak hour, because they are apparently a chess vampire.
- Against lower rated opponents, vve70 em wins 63.41% of the time. Against higher rated opposition, that number drops to 29.01%, so they are a fearsome bully but an honest underdog.
- They deliver checkmate 1,003 times but get mated only 331 times. Most losses come by timeout or resignation, which means opponents rarely find the final combination against them.
- White is their stronger color: 48.81% win rate with the first move, versus 43.03% as Black.
Career Snapshot
vve70 em's volume is staggering. In 2017 alone, the data shows nearly 5,000 rated games, and 2018 was almost as busy. Later years slowed down, but the quality climbed: after years in the 2200s, the Blitz rating spiked in late 2025 to a career high of 2599. Recent months show a player who has returned to the grind with renewed fury, still playing the Slav, still playing 1.d4, and still finding new rivals at 3 in the morning.
One sample of their beloved territory, the Slav Defense: Alekhine Variation: