Is there any chance that a 1300 rated player can beat a 2700 rated player?

What sorta wax will work for the ski slopes in hell? That's a more useful question, given the probabilities. 

Wax that doesn't melt!

When looking at probability i think you would have a to look into the Infinite monkey theorem its probably in the billions/1

When does a 2700 player ever actually play against a 1300 player ?  Maybe only in an exhibition ?  They certainly arent ever likely to meet in a tournament .  Has it ever happened ?  If so , did the 1300 ever win any game(s) against the 2700 ?  

Reb, it can happen in an olympiad. I know there have been some matches against extremely low-rated players in the olympiads, but I don't think there have been any with that big a difference. 

That's been one of my points for months now. 

One of these days, you just wait.

The scenario about the GM having a heart attack during play with a 1300 could happen someday. An even more interesting scenario I'd like to see is a GM becoming senile during that game, suddenly forgetting how the horsie moves...

(OK, you guys know I'm just having fun, right? )

If the 2700 player is drunk and hasn't slept in 40 hours, I'd say yes he could lose to the 1300.

FC Rubin has won FC Barcelona in Champions League so can do 1300 rated over 2700 rated one

once again Morra can not see the fallacy of his theorum. A math major calling everyone idiots..gawd. the system works fine up to a limit. it fails describing a 1400 point difference. just like mathamatical theorums fail when attempting to describe the extreme. new theorums, new concepts are needed to describe never before seen events.

 playing a numbers game, filling in the x and y to prove z is easy do do when you begin with an assumption z is true.

here is a challange Morra, one I am sure you can quickly solve. What are the chances a 100 rated can win vs a 3000 rated player? A possibilty exists, right?

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Even monkey making totally randomly moves can win 3000 rated player. The probability is small but not zero. Even if he not knows the rules. 

we,ve heard the monkey typing a shakespere novel arguement....given enough time. Wake up! It will never happen. 0.0000000 to infinity chanch.

many want to believe there is always a chanch. the mind is allowed to play tricks with faulty logic.

Listen, idiot, this was argued nearly on the very first page and at least 100 times in that last 3000+ posts.

Elo doesn't work for this range. Mr math major... I'm sure doing those exponents really let you flex those math muscles (lol, you really think no one else has done this but you?) maybe at some point you'll learn the predictive usefulness of some equations doesn't work for any range of input... also Elo doesn't deal with win expectancy at all, it deals with (as I'm sure you know, just a slip) expected score which can be any combination of wins and draws.

Anyway, the topic as moved way past that point of that little equation, but admittedly tends to go in circles because people, including me, don't want to read 3000+ posts. SmyslovFan is up to date though. Stop wasting your breath... err, keystrokes.

Morra resorted to an ad hominem attack and missed the point. There's more than one way to score 1/3200. It's far more likely for the U1300 to score that one point with two draws against a higher rated player than with one win.

Any time a 2700 would get into dead lost position, he could just offer a draw. Anyone who has ever been +2000 will have experience with this, and most players over +1800 have probably been able to drawlost positions against amuch lower rated players.

I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but scientists actually tried the monkeys and typewriters experiment. The result: after one day, all of the typewriters were broken, most of them were covered with feces, and one page had the letter "s" printed repeatedly on it. 

Not so different from what happens online with humans, I suppose!

I wish I could have been there to see that. Scientists in lab coats holding clipboards...

not untracking this thread is not unlike taking a hammer and bashing your own skull with it until you die.

not untracking this thread is not unlike taking a hammer and bashing your own skull with it until you die.

What would be the equivalent of a 1300 going against a 2700 in other competitions? In boxing, soccer, American football, baseball?

I'm not wishing ill of you, but I sure wish your keyboard would die so this spamming would stop. Jimmykay, did you little brother hack into your account again?

A 1300 is a fairly good high school player. Not a state championship player, just a good one. A 1300 would likely make the varsity team.

So, imagine your local high school football team facing the New England Patriots in a game that matters to the Patriots.

Oh, and they play by NFL rules.

That's not a game, that's child abuse