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

But there have been plenty of upsets involving more than 400 points before -- I remember in one tournament a year or two ago (it was posted here on chess.com, either as an article or blog), GM Arun Prasad, who had a FIDE rating above 2500 at that time, lost to a girl only rated in the 1900s. She was a young girl, though, so it's not impossible that her strength was higher than her rating suggested. Still, 600 points...

It's a tad annoying that it seems like there are so many A players (I'm an A player) and B players that have beaten so many strong players that I never have beaten -- the best I have done was a draw against a 2100, and a draw against a 2200 who wanted to win clear first so only played 8 opening moves and offered one to me :) I have however beaten lots of 2000s.

I'm kidding of course . Some people are just more consistent than others -- some players are the kind of people who will beat IMs and then lose to a 1600 the next round :)

3/0 is the slowest I will go... I just don't get people who play slow chess on the internet. Chessboards are for slow chess

Have you ever thought that some people prefer slower chess and don't have people to play OTB?

Have you ever thought I was joking?

Well, I may not think much of the initial "offer" but at least the OP has created a lively thread :)

Someone pointed out that the 1300 makes bad moves because he thinks they are good moves. That's worth remembering.

Some people say that they also make moves based on not fully understanding the board and often don't take the time to try.

David vs Goliath. Heard of that story? It can happen but the 1300 player have to have a very good coach who prepared quiet an interesting line so that the 2700 player would assume his opponent is making random moves so much so that he plays passive or careless and would subsequently fall into a trap. 

@topman, that might account for the 1300 taking out an 1800, or at a push a 2000. But not a 2700.

The whole David vs Goliath thing is ridiculous. A slingwith a rock could kill anyone, regardless of how big he is. A 2700 won't fall to a shot by a 1300, though. Maybe by a 2400.

Gambit Openings when played in bullet settings will give a 2700 problems specially if it is well prepared. With time pressure the 2700 will eventually blunder and might lose via time forfeit.

It's really funny how so many people are rooting for 1300. It's natural, since this site is populated more by those leaning towards 1300s in their rating than 2700s.

i guess he could become disconnected and loose because of a poor internet connection!  lol  an example serino could look like this, they are playing in a 3rd world country, playing for fun and no reliable power and internet connection, suddenly a mortor goes off next door taking out the power pole...

"probability is relative"

err, what? 

speaking of probable relatives...what was Bobby Fischer's rating when he beat Donald Byrne. He was thirteen.

His ratings went meteoric for the next few years. At 1760 he beat Samual Reshevsky (over 2600)...

So, that a 1300 player could play AND WIN against a 2700 player?

Yeah. It happens. Has happened. Will again happen.

Hey...sharpen up your playing, folks. The next Bobby Fischer may just come calling any minute now.

d=^))

yes, yours was a "vcheap shot" and also a fail. Sorry to mention it, but, don't you imagine that it is an attitude like yours that brought down higher rated players such as Resevsky, Byrne, Byrne, Euwe, and many many more that looked at that determined little face of Bobby Fisher across from them?

Or those who faced Judit Polgar during her transition... "oh, what a cute little girl. Do you know how a Knight moves, honey?" (i would have LOVED to watch those first games)...or Kasparov, Capablanca, any of dozens of "exceptions"...

Not that I'm trying to scare anyone, but, perhaps it isn't as prevalent because some great players never did learn the game in the first place.

But one day might.

Strawman. Nobody is saying the 2700 will underestimate the 1300 and treat the game as frivolous.

And checkmate beats everyone, regardless of the rating...