If you were 1500 elo, do you think you could beat Magnus Carlsen?

Because of the reason you just said

I don't think that you have any idea how bad 1500 is compared to the best player in the world. He would beat a 1500 about 1000 out of every 1000 times.

I would beat a 1500 990 time out of 1000

No. However a 2900 might have some chance.

i would beat Magnus, too ez

Hi!

No way. Your might need to be 2700 + rated and coincidentally Magnus Carlsen should have a bad day, only chance.

Good luck!

With a bat, yes

I think you forgot he's a Viking descendant #31

No, ITS MAGNUS CARLSON. (Do you in person or the Magnus Carlson bot)

His berserker mode wasn't too impressive

Besides a bat is still a bat

You're all missing his clarification of the question he intended to ask. Could a 1500 rated player beat Magnus if Magnus was playing without his queen? I beat the top-rated bot rather easily under those circumstances, but as we've already discussed, Magnus wouldn't play like a bot.

I was about 1200 when I first tried this experiment - playing the top-rated bot without a queen. I did beat it, but only after several attempts. The bot would adopt one of two strategies.

1. Build a fortress which I could make no progress against without sacrificing material. When I did, it would find a way to reorganise itself back into an intact fortress. Rinse and repeat.

2. Gain and keep the initiative and attack relentlessly. Eventually I would be forced to yield material or just blunder it away, not a full queen's worth, but again, rinse and repeat.

And of course it could switch between strategies in an instant, usually from 1 to 2.

I understand that. Bots don't make plans or have future intentions, they just find the best move against any defence given the position at hand. When I used the word "strategy" it was to describe how the games played out, not to impute mental states to the bot.