Who Is zeyrion1?
zeyrion1 is a bullet chess specialist whose rating graph looks less like a line and more like a cardiograph from a very exciting hospital drama. Since first appearing on the server in mid-2020, this player has piled up well over twenty thousand rated games, the overwhelming majority of them at one-minute speed, and has spent years climbing, tumbling, and climbing again with the cheerful stubbornness of someone who genuinely enjoys chaos.
The headline: in October 2026 zeyrion1 crossed the 2400 mark in bullet, a peak rating that represents six years of mouse-sprinting. Along the way there were months with more than 1,600 bullet games played, which is a number best appreciated while sitting down.
The French Connection
Ask zeyrion1 for an opening and you will get the French Defense with the enthusiasm of a person who has exactly one favourite restaurant. It shows up everywhere: as Black, as White (by transposition), in bullet, blitz, rapid, and even the occasional long-form daily game. The French Defense: Exchange Variation alone accounts for over a thousand blitz games, and thousands more across other time controls. When in doubt, zeyrion1 plays 1...e6 and lets the opponent decide how they would like to be uncomfortable.
With the white pieces the story is equally single-minded: first moves of d4 appear in the thousands, while 1.e4 shows up roughly once a decade, presumably by accident. The King's Indian Defense, the Slav Defense, and a suspicious quantity of gambit lines such as the Benoni Gambit Accepted and the Bonet Gambit fill out the rest of the repertoire. There is even a recurring "Australian Defense" in the files, played hundreds of times, which suggests either deep preparation or an excellent sense of humour.
Here is the shape of a typical zeyrion1 game:
Style: Fights to the Bitter End
For a bullet player, zeyrion1 has a strange secret: the games go long. Around four out of five games reach an endgame, with an average decisive game stretching past eighty moves and many crossing the hundred-move mark. That is not the profile of a flagging specialist; it is the profile of someone who grinds out equal rook endings at one second per move and seems to enjoy it.
- Win rate after losing a piece hovers near 50 percent, meaning material deficits are treated as a suggestion rather than a rule.
- The comeback rate is close to 90 percent, which is a polite way of saying opponents should never relax.
- Lopsided losses are rare, at under two percent. Even the defeats are arguments.
- The queen is by far the favourite checking piece, which surprises absolutely nobody.
The longest winning streak on record is 13 games; the longest losing streak is 10. Both were presumably followed by another game immediately.
Rivalries and Regulars
No account plays 38 games against the same person by accident. zeyrion1 has a long-running series with gibsohn, holding a 27 to 11 edge across those meetings, and an even longer-standing score to settle with Elena Pershina, where 35 games have produced a perfectly balanced 17 wins, 17 losses and one draw. That is the chess equivalent of a rivalry that needs a deciding match and probably will get one eventually.
Then there is lily_oz, against whom the record reads 30 wins and 1 loss, a stat line that zeyrion1 probably brings up at dinner parties. Other recurring names include cristi117, vadim_lev, tekenis, wibriz, nastasia28, leitenss and ma63, all of whom have contributed to the mountain of games.
By the Numbers
Across all time controls zeyrion1 has recorded more than eleven thousand wins. Peak ratings sit at 2400 (2026-10-10) in bullet, 2203 in blitz, 2167 in rapid, and 1754 in daily chess. The preferred battlefield is unmistakably one-minute chess, where results are decided by mouse speed, nerve, and a willingness to play a forty-move endgame with four seconds on the clock.
Saturday is the best day of the week statistically, early morning is the golden hour, and the difference between rated and casual play is stark: zeyrion1 performs noticeably better when nothing is on the line. Whether that is relaxation or mischief is left as an exercise for the reader.
Legacy So Far
zeyrion1 is the archetype of the modern bullet devotee: a dedicated French Defense loyalist, a d4 purist, an endgame grinder in a format that should not allow endgames, and a player whose rating record spans six years of near-daily combat. The 2400 peak is the trophy, but the real signature is the sheer volume, the refusal to resign early, and the willingness to lose ten in a row and keep queueing.