15-year-old American GM Andy Woodward achieved a new peak Bullet rating of 3582 on Chess.com during his regular playing session. This surpasses the previous platform record of 3570 Elo set by Hikaru Nakamura nearly 5 years ago.

The gap between Andy and the second-highest rated player, Arkadiy Khromaev, is 82 points. In total, Woodward has played 20,594 bullet games, winning 14,250, losing 5,440, and drawing 904, for a 69% win rate.

On February 1st, American GM Andy Woodward won the Tata Steel Chess Challengers 2026, scoring 9 wins and 2 draws, for a total of 10/13 points. In 2026, Woodward competed at the Tata Steel Challengers for the first time.

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