Little known fact: everybody sucks at bullet
Highly rated lightning players getting annihilated by 1300-1400s
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They could have been on the phone, I know my biggest blunders come while I'm multi-tasking.
They could have let someone else, like their kids, play...
They could have been watching TV, they could have been distracted by their spouse... Who knows?!
But, to think that most 1700's play like that... lol
Stigmatisert wrote:
An example of me (a 1260 rated patzer) beating a 1779 rated opponent.
My favorite part of that... I'm glad they resigned because I'm not lucky through a whole game. lol!
1700s have a better internet connection than 1300s
May 16, 2013
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If you see that your opponent is low-rated, then you tend to take more risks in quick games. This is why you could win a much stronger opponent in the first game, but not if you rematched them.
When I play against a 1300 I play like a 1400. My brain gets lazy and doesn't work as hard if it thinks it doesn't need to.
May 16, 2013
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I like playing 1300s, rated, and giving them my queen for nothing within the first five moves - a sort of sadistic knack I developed...
I can't recall a case where I didn't win (I speak about 3-minute or 5-minute games) as they have no idea how to use this advantage within the time limit - they either think too slowly, or just blunder stuff away - or both!
I think that the limit for that is around 1330 or 1340. I wouldn't give a whole queen to anybody who is rated higher than that - a rook maybe.
If you get so lucky against the 1700s, you should find a way of playing them more often! You'll surely rise.
I found the game. Winning a 1/0 game on time in a lost position isn't annihilating your opponent. Play them 10 times and we can verify your supposed 40% win rate for ourselves 
I don´t have the exact statistics but i think i loose 10% of the games or less (3 min games) against oposition below 1450 and i think i never lost below 1350...
Some of the reasons why such losses may occur have already been mentioned (watching TV, anwsering the phone, beware of the cat´s behaviour, lack of sleep, etc) but sometimes just happens a big blunder from there is not enough time or material to turn the tables.
However, most of the times, these big blunders occur because one fells that, due to the diferrence in ranks, the game will "win itself", so there is some tendence to shut the brain off and turn on the "automatic player", where the result is not good...
I'm a very mediocre blitz/lightning player (1300-1400), but I frequently get paired with players in the 1700+ range. The baffling thing is their play doesn't seem any better than a 1300-1400, and about 40% of the time I beat them. :-O
I see hanging queens, missed tactics, players working themselves into huge time disadvantages, etc. How do these players get rated so high? I could never even sniff a 1500 rating so I know they're way better than me, yet head to head we seem even.