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At this level Faisal knows how the pieces move but cannot follow a long plan, and pieces fall from the board the way a frond falls from a tired palm. He approaches every game with the patient, unhurried manner of a man who measures time by harvests rather than minutes. Visitors who sit down across from Faisal should expect a calm, gentle opponent who blunders material almost every game and welcomes the chance to share the board.","60","qahta","Saudi Arabia","sa","f2d9e99207cd1baac6f6117aed70ec4f8d3001d3c0bbe64b3f4e6a15b777cd47","2026-07-06",67,"json",[15,18,21],{"question":16,"answer":17},"What rating is Faisal?","Faisal plays at an estimated 67 Elo, which sits barely above random legal moves. He knows how each piece moves but cannot sustain a plan, and he blunders material in almost every game.",{"question":19,"answer":20},"What opening does Faisal play?","Faisal has no fixed repertoire on file. He never studied theory and simply pushes the pieces that look closest to hand, so the opening can drift in any direction from move one.",{"question":22,"answer":23},"Is Faisal a good first opponent for someone learning chess?","Yes, Faisal is well suited to someone playing their first games of chess. At 67 Elo he leaves pieces hanging and rarely follows through on threats, which gives a new player room to practice captures, basic checks, and finishing a game without facing real pressure.","The palm bends, but it does not break.","male","Welcome, friend. Sit in the shade a while, we will play slow like the date harvest. I climb when the wind allows, I rest when it does not. Inshallah the game finds its own pace, and the basket fills as it fills.","Faisal has spent forty seasons climbing the date palms of the Riyadh oasis groves, hand-pollinating each blossom in spring and bringing down the heavy amber clusters in autumn. He learned the craft from his father, and his father from his. He took up chess on quiet afternoons in the shade between trees, and now plays the same way he tends the grove: patient, unhurried, sure of the season.",false,"2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z","A small worn leather pouch of date palm pollen tied at his belt — refilled from the first blossoms of every spring.",{},"Faisal Al-Qahtani","Riyadh date-palm pollination ladder climber",{"solid_sharp":35,"unprepared_theoretical":35},0,null,{"defensive_aggressive":38,"simplifying_complicating":39,"category":40},0.95,0.96,5,"Faisal plays with strong aggressive intent and almost never trades pieces, preferring to keep the board crowded and the tension high. He has no studied repertoire, so his choices wander between offbeat tries and half-remembered mainlines with no real preparation behind them. The aggression rarely lands cleanly at this level, and pieces tend to drift into trouble, but the climb is always forward, never backward.",[43,45,47,49,51,53,55,57,59,61,63,65,67,69,72,74,76,78,80,82,84,86,88,90,92,94],{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":44},1778288358986,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":46},1778294059155,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":48},1778294164422,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":50},1778297332233,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":52},1778313723138,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":54},1778348741195,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":56},1778370896676,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":58},1778443417710,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":60},1778455234960,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":62},1778513183808,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":64},1778519396504,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":66},1778522527721,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":68},1778545248189,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":71},66,1778585746787,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":73},1778587868719,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":75},1778588258022,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":77},1778600362125,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":79},1778604077928,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":81},1778757007690,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":83},1778785252416,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":85},1778794431496,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":87},1778819571046,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":89},1778893285578,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":91},1778967818888,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":93},1779073532634,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":95},1779217263428,"Faisal",{"sameStyle":98,"different":117},[99,105,111],{"botId":100,"name":101,"elo":102,"country":103,"countryCode":104,"category":40},"velou","Iason Velouditis",83,"Greece","gr",{"botId":106,"name":107,"elo":108,"country":109,"countryCode":110,"category":40},"marri","Khalid Al Marri",50,"United Arab Emirates","ae",{"botId":112,"name":113,"elo":114,"country":115,"countryCode":116,"category":40},"semed","Marisa Semedo",99,"Portugal","pt",[118,123],{"botId":119,"name":120,"elo":121,"country":109,"countryCode":110,"category":122},"suwai","Maryam Al Suwaidi",70,1,{"botId":124,"name":125,"elo":126,"country":127,"countryCode":128,"category":129},"anwar","Zubair Anwar",63,"Pakistan","pk",4,"bots/qahta","Faisal is a gentle landing pad for absolute beginners, roughly the unrated to 400 band, including children and adults playing their very first complete games. His tendency to push forward and keep pieces on the board gives newer players plenty of chances to spot hanging material, practice basic captures, and try simple attacking ideas without being punished for slow development or shaky opening choices.","PAl5SVD9fGnrkuDH1TC-03CIzrfEY_s_su6rMAItp9Q",1784583546233]