Whats the most astounding/amazing things in chess that you've done or seen ? For example I drew a Class A player 2 games in a row and won the next 5 games we played. To me and others it was astounding because I wasn't even rated past 1100 then!!!

I learned how to play from my 5th grade teacher and around that time my school was having it's annul school tournament in 3 days. I thought i'd enter since I know how to play now and since everyone there was playing for more than a year at least i didnt think I had any chance and just joined to get out of class and I ended up winning the thing!!! and I just learnt the game 3 days before. A year later when I became a 7th grader at Ludington middle school less than 2 month's I was ranked 3rd out of 55 kids. (the #1 chess middleschool of all of Michigan during the time) Even though I'm still not in the 2000 rating range a lot of people consider me a prodigy already where i'm from.

Cool. Were they blitz?

I beat an IM in 60 60 once which happened last month but since then, I've been working on expanding my repertiore so I haven't had any more shots.

For me, I would say: Everytime I beat a higher ranked opponent .  2 an extant, higher ranked players don't play lower ranks, 4 many reasons; yet, n such cases, I love beating the 1's who underestimate us; or not give us credit 4 a good game.

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 nope 35min !!!!!

I'm sure most people beat higer players them one time or another I'm talking abouta achievement which is close or is rare to come across.

 aww cool I've heared of ludington they had some truely beast players there  sadley only a few today seem to have still be in the top and I know about you because your ranked #1 at Inkster high andat the Artist village chess club. Anything else ?

Drawing with an IM in a 65 minute game?

toop  player in my household for the past 7 years if thats something. there are 3 others that play in my house.

i checkmated a guy once.

I've seen a 1900ish player beat a 2600 GM using 1.a3.

one of the most  amazing things concerning chess i ve  seen is the following:

number of different ways of making first move ( both players )  400

 after 2 moves 72,084

 after 3 moves  9 million

 after 4 moves   287 billion !!! incredible.