Is there any chance that a 1300 rated player can beat a 2700 rated player?

It's more likely a 1300 will die facing a 2700 than win a game.

Haha, funny story

never

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 

Let's be realistic. We know the names of every player rated 2700+. These are not ordinary Grandmasters; these are the top 51 players in the world.

No...the ELO is a mathematical model that gives 200 points as an expected score of .75. Thus a 2700 would beat a 2500 most of the times (e.g. 75% win, 25% loss and 0 draws, or 50% win, 50% draw, 0 loss). He is stronger, but you don't have breakfast with players 200 points below you. They take effort to beat.

Of course there's no way a 1400 held his own against a 2500, I don't believe the story posted above.

Well, he did say he lost on time, and the positon was complicated.He probably just misunderstood how badly he was beaten.

It is possible to get indigestion from breakfast. Indeed, the popularity of pastries and cereals more or less assures digestive problems at least 25% of the time.

Indeed, looking through the latest edition of The Week in Chess, I located perhaps a dozen games between 2500ish players and 2700+ in which the lower rated player did not lose. Most of these were draws, and the lower rated player had White in all but one. There were two wins for the lower rateds, including this upset.

What if the 1300 rated player was rising in points, having only just started playing, and was a chess prodigy similar to Magnus Carlson? Then they could potentially win against the much higher ranking player. 

it is not possible for a 1300 to beat a 2700 under normal circumstances. there are stages of development & 1300 is infancy. he should aim at beating 1500 or 1600 then develop like so.

The story actually might have been true. When I was close to 1800 I lost in a 30 minute time control game to a strong Israeli 2600+ GM. 

The game was complex, and I got down to Q+R vs. Q+R where the GM told me later that I even had a slight advantage there - it was past move 30. 

His R had to guard a pawn on b2, which I was pressuring with my Q. 

The GM later told me that my mistake was moving the Q and letting go of that attack, thereby freeing his R. A mating attack on the combined action of his Q and R, to my great surprise, happened in just a few more moves!

I did get an even, slightly better game - but I didn't understand all of the undercurrents of the position, all of the "what can happen if"-s it contained. I didn't see the danger. 

1400 isn't 1800, true - but I don't know, The guy may have been playing that game well, and maybe the 2500 got into one of the openings where his playing his rather boring and conventional, didn't put that much effort into that game - we also don't know what the time controls were, and of course we don't know whether by the time the 1400 lost on time, whether his position was still even...

^ Yes almost surely he was positionally busted when his time ran out.

Your game sounds interesting, do you have it?

I would appreciate if you could post it.

In the first round of my first class A tournament that I squeaked into with an 1803 rating, I was paired against a master. In the opening he played a reckless Schliemann Defense, opening his kingside, and before he knew it he had lost his rook in the corner and two pawns for my knight. All this inside of 5 minutes time combined. Then the master sat and thought for 50 (FIFTY) minutes. A half-dozen moves later, my queen was trapped in the corner and I lost. 

<Plutonia> no - I didn't write it down, and even if I did, I changed into so many countries that none of my old games were saved... sorry about that :-) but I do remember the flow of the game, and some of the key events as written above. 

Ziryab, thanks for posting that game.

Sometimes, you're just deep in thought, looking at 8 move variations... and forget "oh, he can just play g4 and my queen is randomly trapped, what the hell lol," and that's what happened there. Of course, I'm not looking at it too deeply -- maybe black couldn't have done anything about g4 by the time white played Ne5, although 38...Bxe5 or 38...Nxe5 look to be a lesser evil. In any case, patterns like that are so easy to just suddenly forget about, especially if you're starting to lose focus a little bit.

I don't know if posted priviously but if the player with 1300 score is new HERE not GENERAL, maybe the 1300 was plasmatic.

I meen that a player with 1300 elo (here) maybe plays years chess many tournaments and now want to play and online. 

Exept this the 2700 elo must by tragical error

Edit I meen with original player no from a steal player( with programs)

I was a little over 1500 when I drew a 2500 IM in a 30 game simul. I missed a win, and he later missed a key move because he enforced touch move upon himself (not immediately seeing that he was in check). Later, he forced a repetition to salvage the game. He gave up two draws and two losses that night.

Those four might include a combination of draws and losses, but draws are more likely. Part of what makes a player 2700 is that he or she (her name is Judit) rarely loses.

Just out of curiousity, is 39...Nxe5  40.dxe5 Rg6  41.exd6 Rxg4+  42.Rg2 Rxg2+  43.Nxg2 Bxd6  just as bad for Black as what was played? Because for me (a mere mortal), that position would be VERY tough to win against an opponent rated 200 points higher (or even a similarly rated opponent). And I might not have [immediately] resigned that against someone rated 200 pts. lower, either.

Just a curiosity, someone here a couple of pages back 'accused' me of not 'even' being rated 2000 on this website... (I was rated 1800 something then - maybe a month ago)

well the impossible has happened - I bought a membership, did some Mentor courses and tactical training, et voila! Just made 2001 - so do feel free to congratulate me (chess.com already did, and it was really nice to receive their message - you'll know what message it was when you make 2000 yourself...)