User:Australian chess

Nimish Raut

Nimish raut ( born November 21, 2006) is an Australian and New South Wales chess player of indian origin, who plays only online matches for Australia and New South Wales on chess.com  He plays blitz, bullet, rapid ( live matches) , daily matches, vote chess and variants matches  for Australia. ￼

He debuted for Australia in a live blitz match against Bangladesh on 27th March 2020. His match was against a strong player. He was a underdog. He played 2 games and won 1 and lost 1. In the end Australia lost 9-17 against Bangladesh.

He played his first Rapid match against India on 1st September on 2020. It wasn't a great match for him. He lost both the 2 games. His opponent was really strong. But then also he tried his best to win the games. Australia won the match 33.5 - 32.5

He played his 1st bullet match against Galicia on 3rd October 2020. It was a fantastic bullet debut for him. He won both the games. Australia won the match 15-5

He played his first daily match against USA he won both the matches.

He has played 35 Live matches since his debut in 2020. He almost plays each and every live matches. He has played 70 games till now. From that he won 27 matches, lost 40 and draw 3 games. He ranks 9th in team Australia out of 5,600 players in live matches. He has played blitz matches than rapid or bullet matches.

Australian chess team is underdog in most of the matches, but Nimish has performed really well as a underdog. Due to his and his team mates struggle Australian chess team has received a title of being ' The Best Underdogs in the world'

He played 5 daily matches till now in his career. In that he played 10 games. He won 6 games lost 3 games and 1draw. He hasn't played lot of daily matches till now. He ranks 514th in team Australia out of 5,600 in daily matches.

He has played only 4 vote chess matches for Australia. Much details about his vote chess matches aren't available.

He plays variant matches too. He is gonna win 2nd or 3rd prize in chess live 960 variant tournament between Australian chess player.

He also has his personal records. He is undefeated in horde ( a chess variant) which is very difficult to play. He has defeated his own chess coach too in horde. ( a chess variant)

He plays bughouse ( a chess variant) too. He has his own bughouse partner cylo fernandes dos Santos from Brazil. They both have won lots of bughouse matches. They hold a record of winning 6 consecutive matches from their debut. They both are strong bughouse partners as well as strong chess players. More information about cylo fernandes dos Santos is not available. It is known that he is from Brazil. Cylo fernandes dos Santos chess.com username is @lactobacylo link of cylo fernandes chess.com username is given below

https://www.chess.com/member/lactobacylo

Nimish has also won his local chess championship. He also plays 4 players chess ( a chess variant), Crazyhouse ( a chess variant), 3check ( a chess variant) , king of the hill ( a chess variant).

He also does live commentary on twitch with his team mates Bob explains and ray His twitch channel link is given below.

[https://www https://www.twitch.tv/nimishrautofficial64]

chess.com username of Bob explains and ray is given below respectively

https://www.chess.com/member/bobexplains

https://www.chess.com/member/ray257

Both Bob and Ray are strong players. Bob is a new guy in australian chess team. Ray is also stronger as a underdog too. Much information about Bob and Ray is not available.

Details of his domestic career for New South Wales is not available much.

in one of the match NSW team captain called him up in last 5-6 hrs remaining for the match and in that match Nimish won both the 2 matches. And helped NSW to win that match.

He has played anz league season 2 for Sydney NSW team. He just played one match in against Perth team. In that match he won 1 game and lost 1game. In that match Sydney NSW team crushed Perth team.

There is a news in which it is said that nimish could play for Canberra- ACT or Adelaide in anz league. Further details of this news isn't available. ￼

Nimish chess.com username link is given below

https://www.chess.com/member/spirit_of_australia

He is friendly and calm guy. He tries to share his experience with the new and young players in the team. He don't like to fight or quarrel with anyone. Everyone in the team likes him. He has his chess.com username as spirit of Australia because when he plays match for Australia, especially a underdog a spirit arises in him and he starts winning the match. He has defeated players of rating 1700, 1900 etc.. being 1400 ,while playing for Australia. He always struggle to win the losing match.

Once Australian chess team captain Nicholas boffa told about Nimish in a chat after the blitz match

" Nimish username is perfect to his work. The way he plays in all the matches especially when he is underdog is superb."

Nimish gives his 100% during the match.

In an incident, during the match against India, it was a tough fight between india and australia. Australians were Underdogs. And nimish rating was nearly 1300 at that time and his opponent was nearly 1800. It was seeming that Nimish will lose both the matches. But Nimish didn't lost his hope and gave his 100% in the match. He won 1game and was able to draw the 2nd second game. That was the most successful match in his career which made him famous in australian chess team.

He is just 1 win away from ranking 8th in australian chess team in live chess.

Nimish mostly plays for Australia in live chess world league and in friendly matches.

Nimish was selected as a captain in not so pro blitz chess league. His performance was pretty great in that league.

He also played in ultra Bullet speed league. But he wasn't successful though in ultra Bullet speed league.

His nicknames are nimishy, mish and spirit. He likes to speak Australian aboriginal languages eg: dharawal and eora. He likes to play cricket and watch long tennis. Nimish is the greatest fan of Australian cricketer Glenn Maxwell, Matthew Wade and Steve Smith. Josh Lalor, big bash league player is one of Nimish friend. ￼ Jhye Richardson, nathon Lyon, josh Hazlewood are some of the cricketers whom he chat during bbl player josh lalor's twitch stream.