Are you a complete chess patzer who has defeated titled players. Here is a thread to show off :D

I drew a game with Tal in 1988, playing Black in a Sicilian Najdorf.

It was just a simultaneous display game, of course.

Unfortunately, I don't have the score-sheet here in New Brunswick.

Dude drawing with Tal is insane. You should totally go find the scoresheet or try and reconstruct the game from what you remember and post here.

Yes, I am a complete chess patzer that has defeated titled players. Somehow.

You make playing fast chess sound like a problem. If all a player is doing is moving the first move he could think of, then surely it should be even easier for a titled player to defeat this patzer.

I beat a NM, the best part is it wasn't even in blitz! 15|10, hell yeah.

(It's actually a really boring game, and the only 'win' I got was a pawn, maybe two. It still counts though.)

I drew GM Larry Christiansen (simul), GM Tiger Hillarp, and IM Attila Turzo once,

IM Vojislav Milanovic three times,

beat IM, now GM Alex Lenderman, GM John Fedorowicz, IM Axel Smith, FM Igor Nikolayev, and FM Jovic Stanoje once.

Ehem, rey pitufo translates as king smurf, I doubt that can be anyone's real name.

@Windmills - Brilliant game. Defeating a titled player in a slow game is a lot better than doing it in a fast game. Well done.

@Kaspariano - Are you sure you are a chess patzer . Well done on all those results.

@Pulpfeira - Lol. Well, the link to the game is there and you see the title written against his name. Of course I didn't know it was not his actual name. Do you happen to be very sure that Blue Smurf wasn't the no. 1 baby name in Spain at some point, not even for an hour?

Well, I have been playing, and studying chess on and off for many many years,  I do know I do not have a title.

I've already beaten a GM once, but it was a blitz in a pub and we were both drunk. And I was playing the infamous "Berlin fishing pole" (I haven't win because of this opening but because my opponent later blundered and allowed a mate in 3 in a totally winning position for him).

Some of the wins are not even worth showing off. They make a blunder or you win on the clock. It's not normally mastery. (I'm talking about lots of my own wins, not raining on the parades of others so much)

Win is a win. A patzer like me playing chess since 2016 for a hobby, defeating titled players, is worth showing off. Whether on the clock or not.

https://www.chess.com/member/africanqueeeeen

Here is the link to the africanqueeeeen profile. You could easily see WFM written against her name. I think that is verfication enough. Also if you need verification on other games, then for chess.com games search the username on google it will take you to their chess.com profile.

For lichess games, the direct link for the games are there and you could see the titles against the names of the opponent on that link.

I won Bobby Fischer on Halloween Nite 2017 in a 40/120 match where he had the orange pieces. The game was bewilderingly complicated !! But I hung in there and won him w/ this being the final position w/ me (black) to move:

Anyone know how we got to this position ?
 

@Thee_Ghostess_Lola Considering that Bobby Fischer had been deceased for 9 years at the time, that is a considerably impressive feat. Congratulations.

It's funny because I was losing here but he missed my threat