Name: Aarav Patel
Age: 10
Class: 8th
Best Opening: STURM GAMBIT!!!!
Best Player: Subjective, but Gukesh/Hikaru
FIDE Rating: 1489 Rapid
National Rating:
Chess.com Peak Elo: I don’t hardly play online
Tactics Rating: 2400?
Accuracy Record: 98.7% OTB
Best Opening (White): STURM GAMBITTT!!!!
Best Opening (Black): I hate all openings, so if e4 then forced e5 and d4 then d5
Most Hated Opening: d4/c4
Favorite Time Control: 15+10 or 30+20
Preferred Color: White
Playstyle: Tactical, I hate d4/c4 for a reason
Strengths: I can adapt to any position
Weaknesses: I hate positional positions and positions with locked pawn structures
Favorite Piece: Depends on position
Win Rate: 58% OTB
Chess Goal: 1600 FIDE!
Chess Journey Started: 9 months ago
Local Club: MindGames Chess Academy
Favorite Content Creator: GothamChess/Remote Chess Academy
Favorite Historical Player: Wilhelm Steiniz/Paul Morphy/Mikhail Tal
Favorite Chess Book: Davorin Kuljasevic’s books
Post-Game Analysis:
Highest Tilt: -400 OTB
Pre-Game Ritual: Asking opponent for rating (OTB) and then adapting to their rating level, if found lie then don’t care

Link to my chess study of my best 67% win rate opening (not a joke, I write notations): Sturm Gambit Study Course Guide • lichess.org

THE WEIRD STORY OF HOW I STARTED CHESS!
First things first, I started chess from my grandpa at four. That was boring and painful, for I had no patience.

I started online chess in 2022. You may ask...how? I had a very weird hobby of finding "all" websites (these kind of obscure things I still do, like collecting entire Lichess DataBase) because, to be very honest, I had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA that there are 2B+ websites and that collecting them would even through a script, take days, let alone doing it manually and BOOKMARKING IT! Like I was never gonna have any use of it! Seriously! Okay, anyways so I started by collecting websites like google.com, aol.com, youtube.com, WhatsApp.com, Wikipedia.com, etc etc. (ChatGPT didn't exist at the time), so then I started searching MORE websites. That time I used to have a math online tuition so instead of focusing on math (Nevertheless I really like it) I used to go search on websites. And I used Microsoft Edge. That crappy AI-sloppified by the brand new Cop**ot (the i and l are censored for obvious reasons, snatching our RAM, producing damn results, etc etc). By websites I mean hmm..., why not search websites related to sports? Like football.com, basketball.com, etc etc (SPOILER!: I didn't know at that time that .org or .net and a bunch more ending-in websites existed like your infamous lichess.org). Tennis.com, exists, cool, so does cricket.com (Im a fan of cricket), okay and at the very last I remember I went to the only thing which came to my mind- CHESS.COM!!! Also for the other ones, I didn't think much about the contents in the websites because I am more interested in bookmarking and stuff. And because I hate physical games, chess.com was the only sport-related game that was supposedly BEST FOR ME! Then I started playing bots and the annoying pop-up "Sign up" always came so I quit and plus, I lost interest quickly.
My YouTube content were different things. No sign of chess. Then a chess video appeared. Hmm...new video, I guess? Let me watch it? OOOHHH CHESS IS DEF SO COOL I'M WANNA TRY IT! The channel name is... drumroll please 🥁... Top Chess!!!
Then after in 2024 August, my dad created my Google account. I was overjoyed! Because my mind was to create my chess account. And I created my own account. OFCOURSE WITHOUT ASKING ANYONE. I was 8 and so was restricted to a billion things. Then I signed up. Set up a new password. Wait- what's activation link? Go to your email...blah blah blah. Okay, lemme check my email. Huh? Link is https://chess.com/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Woah! Lemme copy-paste it real quick. YAY!!! Create a username? Lemme think. (Its my private account so I won't disclose it. And I requested chess.com to give it.) Okay I chose it. It's gonna be 1234567890_ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!!! I put it and I'm happy. Grinding chess. Then I eventually discovered new settings and social and stuff.
After I created my account, I kept watching Top Chess, until Top Chess told me, "This thing is called Italian Game: 1. database)e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4" I saw in the game chessboard, sooo...anyways, eventually I tried it in my real game, and I became 700 or so online, and then I hardly watched it again. Sorry, Top Chess. Then I actually started improving. Chess videos. Chess materials. Then a new video, "Code better Python at chess", came. This way I also mastered Python. Credits to those videos. Then I became serious and discovered this Fried Liver trap: 1. e4 e5 2. nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Nxf7!! Kxf7 7. Qf3+ and then somehow I reached from 700 all the way to 1000s. I beat virtually almost everyone through this trap throughout my entire chess journey between those ratings! I thought my life was set until I got hit hard by the counterattacks. I lost games. Now I needed to do something. Now I'm very serious. 1500 FIDE. Coded Lichess bots (with a glitch, of course; I'm never going to be perfect lol). Mastered Python. This journey is amazing. I'm addicted to these things. Except my studies are also affected because of this. Like my mom says, "I will make you quit your chess academy and coding plans if you don't get 90%." I don't care. I'm already 90+%. Way better than everyone. I don't want to be a robot, mom and dad.

MY PYTHON PROJECTS:
Lichess Bot (glitches and under construction): https://github.com/GoogleHub67/Lichess_BOT-YourChessPartner

MY BOOK WRITING:
https://www.bribooks.com/author/aarav-patel-68e2940921919/

1. Stern (Sturm) Gambit - 67.67% Win Rate (965 games)
2. Halasz Gambit - 65.34% Win Rate (1082 games)
3. Von Der Lasa Gambit - 64.21% Win Rate (167 games)
4. Scotch Gambit - 61.08% Win Rate (420 games)
5. King’s Gambit - 59.76% Win Rate (100 games)
6. Vienna Gambit - 57.77% Win Rate (121 games)
7. Bishop’s Opening - 56.99% Win Rate (95 games)
8. Danish Gambit - 56.94% Win Rate (234 games)
9. Ponziani Opening - 56.45% Win Rate (165 games)
10. Smith-Morra Gambit - 55.55% Win Rate (196 games)
11. Alapin Opening - 55.30% Win Rate (101 games)
12. Falkbeer Countergambit - 55.19% Win Rate (132 games)
13. Alien Gambit - 54.34% Win Rate (164 games)
14. Benko Gambit - 53.85% Win Rate (139 games)
15. Evans Gambit - 53.55% Win Rate (87 games)
16. Nakhmonson Gambit - 53.52% Win Rate (182 games)
17. Urusov Gambit - 53.27% Win Rate (69 games)
18. Latvian Gambit - 53.14% Win Rate (888 games)
19. Goring Gambit - 53.07% Win Rate (109 games)
20. Halloween Gambit - 53.03% Win Rate (68 games)
21. Colorado Gambit - 52.99% Win Rate (654 games)
22. Stafford Gambit - 52.91% Win Rate (122 games)
23. Schara-Henning Gambit - 52.80% Win Rate (76 games)
24. Wagner-Zucker Gambit - 52.64% Win Rate (97 games)
25. Omega Gambit - 52.55% Win Rate (116 games)
26. Latvian Gambit - 52.38% Win Rate (109 games)
27. Muzio Gambit - 52.22% Win Rate (96 games)
28. Max Lange Attack - 52.13% Win Rate (444 games)
29. Staunton Gambit - 52.03% Win Rate (65 games)
30. Traxler Counterattack - 51.76% Win Rate (112 games)
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96. English Opening - 41.86% Win Rate (103 games)
97. Grünfeld Defense - 41.76% Win Rate (98 games)
98. Modern Defense - 41.33% Win Rate (123 games)
99. Queen’s Gambit - 41.03% Win Rate (109 games)
100. London System - 40.42% Win Rate (142 games)
101. Scandinavian Defense - 39.75% Win Rate (96 games)
102. Caro-Kann Defense - 39.30% Win Rate (78 games)
103. French Defense - 38.92% Win Rate (82 games)
104. Nimzo-Indian Defenses - 38.53% Win Rate (73 games)
105. Queen's Indian Defense - 38.23% Win Rate (69 games)
106. King’s Indian Defense - 38.01% Win Rate (54 games)
Looks like I’m bad at playing my own country’s openings 😭😭😭

My daily routine:
6:00-7:00 - Ready for school
7:00 - My parents go for job, drop to school simultaneously
7:00-3:00 - School time
3:00-4:00 - Rest and eating lunch
4:00-5:30 - Chess Academy
5:30-6:30 - Book writing/Preparing for debate competitions
6:30-7:00 - Chess Practice
7:00-8:00 - Study/Prepare for exams/Homework
8:00-9:00 - Python coding practice
9:00-10:00 - Prepare dinner for myself and eat and sleep
10:00 - My parents come home from job

See you soon, guys. Till then, keep chessing! Keep living a good and happy life!

#ChessisLife

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