The Blitz Marathoner
A Life Spent on the Clock
waslee, known on the chess ladder simply as waslee, is not a player you find by accident. This is someone who started out in 2010 around the 1200 level and then spent the next decade and a half building one of the most prolific online chess identities imaginable. The preferred time control is Blitz, and the numbers show it: more than 39,000 Blitz games alone, with rapid and bullet adding tens of thousands more.
It all adds up to over 55,000 rated games. That is not a hobby. That is a lifestyle, an archive, and a highly competitive relationship with the chess clock.
Repertoire: The Eternal 1.e4
If you look at waslee's games, one thing is unmistakable: nearly every game starts with 1.e4. Whether it is the open battlefield of the Sicilian Defense or the solid block of the Caro-Kann Defense, waslee keeps the game straightforward, active, and fighting.
The preference for the Sicilian appears all over the database, including frequent visits to the Closed Sicilian with White and the Alapin Variation when the board flips. There is also a healthy amount of the Evans Gambit Accepted, the Scandinavian Defense, and some intentionally rare offbeat lines like the Barnes Defense. waslee wants pawn tension, open kings, and games that cannot be decided by memory alone.
Not a Planet to Tilt
The most impressive part of waslee's profile is not the win list, it is the resilience. After losing a piece, waslee still manages to win nearly 46 percent of those games. The endgame phase appears around 74 percent of the time, so when pieces come off, waslee does not panic. The grind often turns in their favor.
Big swings are normal in this player's career: a 45-game winning streak can be followed by a brutal 15-game losing streak. But over thousands of matches, waslee stays around positive and eventually climbs with the famous blitz rating, and now the rapid rating has reached a peak of 2413 (2025-11-19). Players like that are almost dangerous when they improve on purpose.
Rivalries
No marathon exists without rivals. waslee has played shahmeerabbasi22 over 100 times, a match-up that has been both frequent and lopsided in waslee's favor. Others such as beyondthought93 and paulleon have also crossed the same board many times, creating a personal inventory of all the things an active Blitz player does between responsibility, sleep, and next game.
In a busy arena full of rapid experiments and bullet bursts, names reappear. The archives show that waslee prefers to play when the clock is loud, quiet, and unforgiving, and that is the jewel of the modern chess warrior.
The Lug and the Loops
There are moments of pure chess-routine brilliance: winning a piece, attacking the king, delivering checks, and trading every square. Sometimes the mismatch is one-sided, but only 0.77 percent of games are a full hopeless stampede. Instead, waslee tends to hang around, defend, counterattack, and turn small advantages into a 221-game-long average move count.
After years of grinding, early resignations are rare but common enough to keep pace. This is a player who enters every tournament as if defeat is only the next opening move.
- Most played opponent: shahmeerabbasi22
- Longest winning streak: 45 games
- Longest losing streak: 15 games
- Favorite first move: 1.e4