I vs a gm

of course the gm won.

yeah

But how did I get paired with gm

In the variants i am pretty sure that you have a challenge and it shows up and anyone can accept the challenge. Of course you can set a maximum rating to prevent that from happening

Skill level and time on chess.com I guess?

I sent the request, i think he accepted?

Or as edward said, could have just been time..

I guess it also pairs you based on how many checkmates you have

yeah

Wait were you playing variants?

I’m surprised that a grandmaster is playing chess960

i don't think there is a rating cap for the variants because I remember going up against people that were 500-1000 above my level

GM