Zurab Azmaiparashvili
Zurab Azmaiparashvili, known online as ZURAAZMAI, is a FIDE Grandmaster with a distinctly modern online chess résumé. While his profile includes several time controls, blitz is clearly his preferred battlefield, where quick decisions and quicker tactics are the order of the day.
Online Chess Profile
ZURAAZMAI has recorded more than 75,000 bullet games and over 1,400 blitz games in the available statistics. His online peak reached 2,989 in blitz, while his bullet peak climbed to 2,844. That is a lot of chess, and possibly an equally large number of coffee refills.
His strongest recent blitz performances came in 2024, including a peak of 2,902. Overall, the numbers describe a player comfortable in fast, tactical positions, but still perfectly willing to let a game stretch into a serious endgame.
Playing Style
His repertoire is adventurous rather than predictable. The Modern Defense appears frequently, alongside the Slav Defense, Australian Defense, and a variety of gambits. With a comeback rate above 84 percent, ZURAAZMAI seems especially dangerous when a game starts to go wrong. For this player, “down a piece” may simply mean “the plot has become interesting.”
White has been the more productive side statistically, with a win rate above 56 percent. As Black, the results remain highly competitive, particularly in dynamic systems such as the King's Indian Defense and Modern Defense variations.
Competitive Character
- Longest winning streak: 16 games
- Current winning streak in the supplied data: 3 games
- Wins after losing a piece: approximately 50 percent
- Games reaching an endgame: more than 82 percent
- Most common checking piece: the rook
These figures portray a resilient Grandmaster who enjoys complications, keeps fighting after setbacks, and is not especially interested in ending a game before the board has had time to tell its full story.