I think a 1300 is rated too high to have a chance. His "chess knowledge" would get in the way of him accidentally playing a good game. A 200 rated player has a small theoretical chance.
lol, so what must 1300 rated player should do is to lose games rapidly, so he can have a chance against 2700.
It is not so much the score but the knowlege that gets that score. A monkey who knows how to play has every move as a candidate move. However someone who knows a little has a few candidate moves every turn. His limited knowlege will elimanate moves he needs to make. So that person will not have the theorectical chance to make all the correct moves.
edit: Basically what I am saying is if you put all the legal moves into a hat and randomly picked one you have a small chance. However if a 1300 tries to come up with the best moves based on how he plays chess...then all the moves are not in the hat and he loses every time.
I think a 1300 is rated too high to have a chance. His "chess knowledge" would get in the way of him accidentally playing a good game. A 200 rated player has a small theoretical chance.
Nonsense. A 1300s chess knowledge consists mostly of faulty ideas buttressed by the ability to spot two move tactics.
An older man like yourself should be able to relate to someone thinking they know everything after they gain a bit of knowledge. Maybe you don't have teenagers? :-p
I do. My teenagers are now in their 20s, which has raised my IQ slightly in their eyes, although they remain deeply skeptical of all that I claim to know.
I also remember when I thought I was a pretty hot chess player because a good tournament pushed me up to 1525. OTOH, September 2010 was the last time I lost to a player under 1600 in a tournament, and that player was 1602 after the event was rated.