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IM pfren
Sure, everything is possible. Gather 1,000,000 monkeys, let them play 7,000,000 times against Houdini, and it's absolutely sure they will checkmate him in 17 moves in one game.
rupert2112
18 moves I could see, 17 moves... Pffffttttt
GM__Sanand
Surely one can do anything with his dedication and hardwork.
In india a small 7 yrs old unrated child have defeated a GM. Superb na. And now he is rated 2234 at just 9 yrs.
Scottrf
They were likely better than 1300 at unrated.
bankoscarpa
Possible? yes.
the typical 1300 could not beat a typical gm though. Great question. I wonder things like that myself. :)
This is called mythbuilding, at least outside India. There is no such player in the FIDE lists.
CheapShotFail
In theory, there is the possibility that the 2700 will play pathetically enough to be beaten by the 1300, but the real likelyhood is not one representable by numbers. You can play as many games as you want against a 2700, but the gap in tactics, positional play, combinational play, and opening/endgame knowledge is close to insurmountable and the 2700 is pretty much guaranteed to win every game.
madhacker
There is a big difference between 0 and 0.000125
Only in mathematical terms. In practical chess terms there is no difference.
FirebrandX
Our planet orbits a single star, our star is 1 in a billion in our galaxy. Our galaxy is 1 in a billion in the observable universe.
Your estimates are a bit off. Our galaxy has somewhere between 200 billion and 400 billion stars, and the likely estimate of galaxies in the observable universe is close to the same number. The universe is around 13.75 billion years old, with an observable sphere diameter of close to 100 billion light years (expansion places galaxies much further away than we observe them).
Conflagration_Planet
Not to mention, our universe might be just on of a countless number of em.
rookendings
possible i am rated 389 JCL but i defeated a 800~ player in an OTB tournament today (not to mention that my rating is now probably above 400
Stackalee
Ultimately though, if a 1300 player beats a 2700 player, has he really 'beaten' him? Really it would just be probability and incredible luck, the 1300 player certainly wouldn't appreciate the actual depth of the moves he made by chance.
Perhaps that 'multiverse' is only one of a countless number of 'multiverses'
Might be the case. :)
And perhaps that... oh never mind
Could be a hacker just like you, making that same statement in another universe far FAR away.
By your hypothesis, in a countless number of far away universes.
If there are other universes, would they be theoretically accessible through the conventional dimensions of X Y Z and T? Or would they exist on some mysterious 'other plane'?
Weird stuff - I don't know a lot about physics but it's interesting and sort of makes your head explode trying to think about it.
Weird is right. It's not my hypothesis, and I know little about it, but other universes would never be accessible to us.
dezsoracz
NO.
5/25/2013 - Pieces Out of Play
by CaptJaneway a few minutes ago
Why lose points for stalemates?
by corrijean a few minutes ago
What happened to the fun???
by AlCzervik 3 minutes ago
Shredder12UCI: left thinking for 9 hours after 1.e4 gave a sequence. Interested?
by Stigmatisert 7 minutes ago
Is there any chance that a 1300 rated player can beat a 2700 rated player?
by Ja3030 10 minutes ago
FM Borislav Ivanov Disqualified
by aland420 12 minutes ago
Slav defence help
by xxvalakixx 14 minutes ago
Is the book "My System" worth getting?
by royalbishop 15 minutes ago
Time to get 1500 rating
by royalbishop 21 minutes ago
1.b3
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