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Is there any chance that a 1300 rated player can beat a 2700 rated player?
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1300 vs 2700?
You might draw 1 game in 10000 due to blunders/stalemate, or finding a perpetual check.
You might win 1 game in 100000 due to blunders/oversight.
My estimate is not far-fetched at all. I'd be willing to bet that those odds are right on the mark.
How much? I'll agree to any amount. Cash on the barrel.
I know you are making a complete guess of it.
Mathamaticians here have placed the odds at astronomical numbers, in the zillions. You give me 100,000 /1 odds? I'll take that bet.
Bit desperate mdinner, he did false start and was disqualified, it actually happened and you can look it up if you don't believe me. Unless you are unable to run or even walk 100 meters you would have beaten him that day. Tell me how that's wrong and try harder than geeeeeezxyz please
I remember when this forum was made everyone was talking about the Boris Gelfand game and now you are talking about the 1009th universe in the 11th dimension. Such a big change...
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mdinnerspace wrote:
No. We can't say there exists a chanch where none exists.
We can only say it is impossible.
But that's just sarcasm, right?
mdinnerspace wrote:
Absolutely agree. Of course anything is possible in the multiverse (say the 1009th universe, in the 11th dimension and a quadrillion years from now), who in their right mind would argue against the possibility?
But today?
Out on a limb here... tomorrow?
Absolutely, emphatically not. Never. Impossible
0.000. Probability
As in:
×=0
There is no inherent difference between the point in this universe and some random point in the multiverse.
0110001101101000 wrote:
mdinnerspace wrote:
it is a wrong conclusion to make that any possible result is a possibility.
Umm... ?
I know right? :) Good catch.
I don't believe the "multiverse" exists. If you so desire, be my guest. If you hadn't figured it out, that's the point of my arguement. A multiverse, the concept of infinity, extra dimensions are simply ways the mind attempts to "make sense" of what it can not understand. What lies beyond the very edge of the universe, the event horizon? There "must be" something, right? So the mind imagines these possibilities, concepts that in fact may not be anywhere near the truth.
Elubas wrote:
There is no inherent difference between the point in this universe and some random point in the multiverse.
This "belief" and it is exactly that "a belief", because it is unprovable, can not ever be verified by observation or experiment. String theory , infinity, multiverses, extra dimensions are figments of the imagination. Exotic speculations to entertain, with no basis grounded in reality.
These concepts then get used to suggest the impossible becomes possible in a "made up" world. There is no evidence a multiverse exists, therefor it becomes faulty logic to use this arguement as a basis to support a belief anything (not an absurdity ) is possible.
2700 player could be sick, drunk, on drugs, etc.
1300 player could have father who is head of mafia and 2700 player scared to win.
2700 player could be caught cheating and thus forfeit game.
1300 player could get away with cheating and thus use computer to help win game.
1300 player could play against 2 different 2700 players at same time in carefully controlled setting as part of a con job... one side as white, other side as black.. In effect the 2700 players play against each other as result.
1300 player could be carefully coached/prepared on memorizing openings and lines and a crazy agressive player. Most of time games stray from what he remembers and he makes mistake, but on one very lucky day he manages to have the 2700 player follow a memorized line and wins thanks to following a long unusual string of gambits that 2700 player was not prepared for.
Can we stop this stupid "discussion" now?
There is a finite, extremely small chance that a 1300 player could take the full point from a 2700 player due to some weird and unlikely circumstances.
In real life the possibility is so tiny that we might as well consider it impossible.
We dont need to stop . This tread can survive for milleniums.That little dream can live on. One woman was once asked what are the chanses for you meeting a dinosaur? She answered "fifty-fifty. either I meet him, or i dont". 
This thread will last as long as people who fail to understand the difference between incredibly unlikely and impossible. So forever......
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Anything else? That about covers every possibility.
Oh wait a sec....
what if he veers off course, fails to break the tape...I win !!!