I beat a 1743 but I am 872

I beat a 1743 but I am only 872 can you tell me how? 

Like me built different

You mean one of those games where your opponents were playing without several pieces?

I think elo is only accurate past 2000 elo for online chess . I as well beat people over double my elo all the time and also loose to people half my elo all The time. For online chess it’s to broad of a metric to classify ability. I can only imagine the lopsided levels of self education sub 2000 elo online players have related to chess. As in, someone rated 700 has advanced knowledge on one aspect of the game, but looses so often because they failed to build up a minimal foundation for another aspect that they should theoretically know for their level. So depending on who you are matched with, you are practising something they’ve never even studied even though they are higher elo… so this time you win. But In real life, I imagine people dedicated to studying chess are going more traditional routes and therefor are learning the “ curriculum” in order. And therefor elo is more accurate in ability. Online chess players without some sort of coaching regiment are going to accumulate knowledge in random waves, sometimes from pools you shouldn’t even be at yet if you hadn’t done x y z before hand. That’s my theory to why online chess elo has people scratching their heads on who they can and can’t compete with.

I played normal chess. He had all his pieces

Daily chess games are fun until chess com pairs you with a 1800 player and your only 1000 elo at daily chess

I could not find that game in your profile

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It was in real life I played with some ppl and they were good we would meet every 2 day after analysing the position

I thought no one would answer. And I am happy that you guys did

We can play a daily game

I can tell you for sure I beat 2700 at 1800

The final boss

In theory, every 200 rating points difference equates to a 3-to-1 odds distribution.

So if he was 1,000 rating points above you, that's five 3-to-1 advantages, so it equates to (3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3) to 1... or to 243 to 1.

He should beat you about 242 times in 243 games. You should win 1 game out of 243.

You are 2300

Ah, I see now... Sometime, somewhere, some opponents:

It's perfectly possible for an 800 player to beat an 1800 player. Like I said above, it will happen in about four-tenths of one percent of all such encounters. Rare, but perfectly do-able.

If you want to DISBELIEVE something, how about my claim to have drawn a game in a simultaneous display against GM Mikhail Tal back in 1988? He was ranked 4th in the world at around that time.

I am going to do it again

Wow I want to see the game

OP never beat any 1700