[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":177},["ShallowReactive",2],{"bot-etche":3},{"id":4,"aboutLong":5,"age":6,"botId":7,"country":8,"countryCode":9,"dataHash":10,"dateModified":11,"elo":12,"extension":13,"faq":14,"favoriteQuote":24,"gender":25,"hello":26,"introduction":27,"isTrophy":28,"liveDate":29,"luckyCharm":30,"meta":31,"name":32,"occupation":33,"openingAxes":34,"openingsAnalysis":36,"playstyle":37,"playstyleSummary":41,"ratingHistory":42,"shortName":144,"similar":145,"stem":174,"trophyQuirk":36,"trophyUnlock":36,"whoShouldPlay":175,"__hash__":176},"bots/bots/etche.json","Maialen Etcheverry is a 36-year-old espadrille stitcher from a small Basque village in the French Pyrénées, where she still works jute soles and cotton uppers by hand in a tiny workshop above her family's old house. She plays chess the way she stitches: slowly, in rows, without rushing. Her estimated rating sits at 1041, the level of a casual club player who knows the basic principles of development and king safety but grows shaky once the middlegame thickens and frays in the endgame. She has been around the game for years without ever sitting down to study it properly, treating it more as evening company than as a discipline. Expect a patient opponent who pushes pieces forward with surprising determination, keeps the position cluttered rather than clean, and will happily trade blows in a tangled middlegame even when the safer thread is still on the bench.","36","etche","France","fr","d8a08065bbbf567dabee64dd0eda70eba672c9f965bdbed84c5fabaef3afa5ce","2026-07-06",1041,"json",[15,18,21],{"question":16,"answer":17},"What rating is Maialen?","Maialen's estimated rating is 1041, placing her in the casual club player range. She handles basic opening principles and king safety reasonably well but becomes unreliable in complicated middlegames and weak endings.",{"question":19,"answer":20},"What opening does Maialen play?","Maialen has no fixed repertoire on file. Her opening choices sit in the middle of the road, neither strictly theoretical mainlines nor deliberately offbeat sidelines, which fits a player who has been around the game without ever studying it formally.",{"question":22,"answer":23},"Is Maialen a fair challenge for casual club players?","Yes. At around 1041 she fits squarely in the casual club bracket, so players rated between roughly 850 and 1200 will get a balanced fight. Her aggressive, tension-keeping style means even similarly rated opponents have to defend carefully rather than coast on equal material.","One stitch at a time, and the rope holds.","female","Bonjour, I am Maialen. Sit, take your time. We will work this board like a sole on the bench, one stitch at a time, and see what holds. Eskerrik asko for the game.","Maialen learned to stitch espadrilles at her grandmother's workbench in a small Basque village in the French Pyrénées, and twenty years later she still works the same kind of jute soles and cotton uppers by hand. She runs a tiny workshop above her family's old house, supplying a handful of regional shops and a steady trickle of customers who come up the mountain road just for her shoes. She finds chess and stitching to be the same craft in different materials — both are slow, patient work where one careful loop at a time decides everything.",false,"2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z","A small bone needle threaded with a loop of cream linen twine, kept in her apron pocket — passed down from her grandmother.",{},"Maialen Etcheverry","Pyrénées espadrille rope-sole stitcher",{"solid_sharp":35,"unprepared_theoretical":35},0,null,{"defensive_aggressive":38,"simplifying_complicating":39,"category":40},0.9,-0.89,4,"Maialen plays aggressively for her level, leaning hard toward attacking ideas rather than quiet defense. She likes to keep tension on the board, avoiding trades and letting pieces stay knotted together where she can. Her opening choices are middle-of-the-road, neither sharply theoretical nor deliberately offbeat. The result is a cluttered, pushy game from a club-level player who would rather complicate the weave than untangle it.",[43,46,49,52,54,57,59,62,65,67,70,73,76,79,82,85,88,91,94,97,99,102,104,106,109,112,114,117,120,123,125,128,130,132,134,136,139,141],{"rating":44,"msSinceEpoch":45},1040,1778355206957,{"rating":47,"msSinceEpoch":48},1033,1778356222655,{"rating":50,"msSinceEpoch":51},1025,1778374344026,{"rating":50,"msSinceEpoch":53},1778511049822,{"rating":55,"msSinceEpoch":56},1018,1778564483475,{"rating":55,"msSinceEpoch":58},1778599393604,{"rating":60,"msSinceEpoch":61},1010,1778607613157,{"rating":63,"msSinceEpoch":64},1003,1778671191994,{"rating":63,"msSinceEpoch":66},1778694963498,{"rating":68,"msSinceEpoch":69},995,1778696330998,{"rating":71,"msSinceEpoch":72},986,1778698935445,{"rating":74,"msSinceEpoch":75},984,1778716067514,{"rating":77,"msSinceEpoch":78},1002,1778716590596,{"rating":80,"msSinceEpoch":81},1020,1778782698406,{"rating":83,"msSinceEpoch":84},1037,1778826077720,{"rating":86,"msSinceEpoch":87},1034,1778826329093,{"rating":89,"msSinceEpoch":90},1022,1778852253957,{"rating":92,"msSinceEpoch":93},1011,1778853021212,{"rating":95,"msSinceEpoch":96},1021,1778863513972,{"rating":60,"msSinceEpoch":98},1778923154393,{"rating":100,"msSinceEpoch":101},1008,1778968003739,{"rating":80,"msSinceEpoch":103},1779018506239,{"rating":60,"msSinceEpoch":105},1779061669244,{"rating":107,"msSinceEpoch":108},1007,1779123223345,{"rating":110,"msSinceEpoch":111},1004,1779124380903,{"rating":68,"msSinceEpoch":113},1779166721528,{"rating":115,"msSinceEpoch":116},1012,1779231140419,{"rating":118,"msSinceEpoch":119},1029,1779231231139,{"rating":121,"msSinceEpoch":122},1023,1779231384029,{"rating":92,"msSinceEpoch":124},1779240370867,{"rating":126,"msSinceEpoch":127},1000,1779262305104,{"rating":115,"msSinceEpoch":129},1779290676595,{"rating":107,"msSinceEpoch":131},1779306286759,{"rating":68,"msSinceEpoch":133},1779307035452,{"rating":100,"msSinceEpoch":135},1779324862142,{"rating":137,"msSinceEpoch":138},998,1779330615299,{"rating":68,"msSinceEpoch":140},1779338318943,{"rating":142,"msSinceEpoch":143},991,1779382941990,"Maialen",{"sameStyle":146,"different":161},[147,151,155],{"botId":148,"name":149,"elo":150,"country":8,"countryCode":9,"category":40},"auban","Léonard Aubanel",1066,{"botId":152,"name":153,"elo":154,"country":8,"countryCode":9,"category":40},"belka","Lila Belkacem",1015,{"botId":156,"name":157,"elo":158,"country":159,"countryCode":160,"category":40},"pelle","Fiorella Pellegrini",1076,"Uruguay","uy",[162,169],{"botId":163,"name":164,"elo":165,"country":166,"countryCode":167,"category":168},"bellei","Chiara Bellei",1046,"Italy","it",5,{"botId":170,"name":171,"elo":172,"country":8,"countryCode":9,"category":173},"floch","Loïg Le Floch",1036,3,"bots/etche","Players rated roughly 850 to 1200 will find Maialen a natural sparring partner. Calm, defensive improvers benefit most: her tendency to attack and keep positions tense forces the other side to defend accurately, simplify when given the chance, and convert small advantages in messy middlegames. Anyone working on handling pressure, untangling crowded boards, or punishing overextended attacks at the casual club level will get useful repetition here.","Arl4GXtSZPALCylBaPJKwAeE9rcn155yOvU2Xx9B1EQ",1784583537452]