Meet Xueyi Li
Xueyi Li, known to online rivals as xiaopang123, is a Woman Grandmaster who brings the same energy to chess as a fireworks show. Her preferred time control is Rapid, and she has played hundreds of Rapid games since 2020. Along the way she touched 2304 (2020-06-12), but she also took the scenic route, proving that a rating graph can be as dramatic as a chess game.
Off the board, she seems calm. On it, she is a comeback artist: an 82% comeback rate, a 16-game winning streak, and a 14-game losing streak for balance.
The rollercoaster
The chart shows a climb to 2304 in 2020, a tumble to 1471 in late 2025, and a resilient bounce. She also reached 2509 (2021-08-09) in Blitz and 2406 (2021-03-26) in Bullet. That is the profile of a player who takes no prisoners and no rating stability.
Fighting repertoire
With White, Xueyi is comfortable in the Catalan Opening. With Black, she happily enters the Caro-Kann Defense, and she is particularly dangerous in the Sicilian Defense, where her Rapid win rate is 64%. She is also fond of the Modern Defense, Pterodactyl Variation, which is a fancy way of saying she wants an adventure.
Her games are long. A typical win lasts around 72 moves, and she reaches an endgame in 70% of her games. She rarely resigns early and only gets blown out about 6.5% of the time.
Friends and rivals
Her most frequent online rival is imm1977, with 25 meetings, 11 wins for Xueyi, 9 for her opponent, and 5 quiet draws. Against littlepancake1220, she has a perfect streak: 8 wins and 1 draw in 9 games.
reveals the openings that made those results possible, from the Australian Defense to the Amazon Attack. She can be unpredictable, but never boring.A snapshot
A quiet Queen's Gambit start, perhaps, but with Xueyi on the clock it rarely stays quiet for long.