Arrogance Chess Match (of normal bullet chess) with World No. 1 Antichess Player

Current (at the time of writing) world's highest rated antichess player, Tetiksh1Agrawal, played me in an inaugural 'arrogance' bullet chess match. The match is on the "Antichess Lore" YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjn-PtGRMVg . The match was a follow-up to a blog I put out a while ago (and there's an accompanying video of it) of 'Winning with "Arrogant" Chess Moves', on the same YouTube channel and under my blog posts.

The match consisted of 10 bullet games of conventional chess (not antichess because that would have been rather one-sided playing a world champion!)

There was an extra point given per player if the game was won 'arrogantly' by sacrificing material. Sometimes it's important to arrogantly sacrifice pieces for nothing in bullet chess in order to win on time. Let's take one example from the match:

Tetiksh1Agrawal vs Jagulep: Kádas Opening • lichess.org

Here, Tetiksh is down a piece but way up in time. Technically, the only move to have a chance of drawing is 52. Rf7! (=+) but finding only moves in bullet chess is not always practical. If we had less than one second each left on the clock, the percentage arrogance move could be 52. Rf8+!?, since it could be difficult for Black to realise quickly that his only legal move was 52..Kxf8 and may thus lose on time. However, since I had 2.4 seconds left, that might just have been enough for me to have found it and won in time (or at least gotten rid of his last pawn and ensured a draw).

So Tetiksh found the interesting 52. e7!?. Of course, objectively it's an atrocious move, as he very likely knew. But it is unexpected since it leaves the rook on f6 en prise so I not only had to only realise that 52...Bxf6 was possible but that it was virtually forced to prevent losing to 53. Rf8 mate. Naturally, I was thrown off by the unanticipated move and lost on time.

And then, after an arrogant final move like that and the opponent is left thinking to themselves, 'But I was winning!', it's always nice to click on the "Good game" button :) .

If you want to see how the match went, please view the video.