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

I would be interested in asking Daniel Rensch about the tournament personally, I don't know about you, but anyone who loses to Daniel Rensch must be pretty drunk! (jk)

You can only win with a blunder. A 2700 player has such a great long-term memory understanding of patterns, positions, strategies, tactics, etc. that we, the club-level players, can't expect to compete.

I have relatives who are not highly educated who think that I, a chemist who completed graduate school at IIT, should have been a company CEO or have won a Nobel Prize because I amaze them by how well I understand finances, the stock market, and how quickly I call out the answers while we're watching "Jeopardy," etc.

But I know so many scientists that are brighter than me or understand business better than me because I'm at a high enough level to understand how truly amazing they are.

I think it's the same with chess. I certainly don't have the expertise to say why Fischer may have been better than Kasparov or vice-versa, so I can't say exactly why we club-level players don't have a chance against GMs.  But having seen GM's win all the games in simultaneous matches, I know it seems to be true!

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I didn't read the whole thread, but can I beat Bolt in the 100m?  Sure, assuming he trips out of the blocks and injures something, pulls a hamstring after 20 yards and falls down in pain, etc.

In other words it is possible, but highly improbable and I mean  HIGHLY HIGHLY ....

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It's possible, but this would require some deep anesthesia to be given to the 2700 player. 

Why not? This world(which includes chess too) is full of possibilities.😅

Its not possible for a 1300 player to play well enough to outplay a 2700 player ever in this universe. Although it is possible that a 2700 player could over look a serious threat and blunder into a lost position against anyone.

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In the unlikely event that the game would be drawish, the 2700 player might not want the draw and take a risk to go for the win..But according to quantum theory, if you can assign a non-zero probability to an event, eventually it will happen.

I have done it several  times in my Dreams

I can beat my stockfish 9 at maximum strength with a queen handicap EASILY, and I'm only 1500. Although there's a difference between losing a queen for like a knight and pawn, and losing a WHOLE queen for nothing.

@blitzcrige LOL SAME XD

If I ever become 2700 (but it wont happen, my ultimate goal , which I dont believe in is CM at the age of 93) I will lose to 1300s if I am extremely tired. I really  fubction way below when very tired  This week I had a bad loosing streak in blitz , falling asleep between moves, and waking up desoriented in timetrouble.

There are stories about superstrong players  playing belpw topquality because of jetlag and tiredness.

i've beaten a 2100 

I have seen a 2700 lose to a unrated child in simultan, of course simultan doesnt count, but the way he lost was interesteing. GM Hammer (was at that time at his peak, maybe 2702 if I remember correctly) was up in material and attacking, but Timur Gusarov had compensation. He had beautiful lines and diagonals and his pieces was coordinated superb. Timur did strike back with a smooth mate-attack. Of course Hammer would have defended it with some profilactic moves if it had been a one to one game in long timecontrol, but the stunning beauty of of Timurs game was fascinating.

I often compete with small children in otb tournaments, and I often feel power, calculating skills and positional play on a very strong level. Amelia Nordquelle I met when she was ca 1300 and 8 or 9 years old. Now she is 10 years , Nordic champion for girls 13, and brutally underrated at 1655. Her brother Daniel reached FM last week, an Amelia is considered even more talented, with a winninghead like Magnus. When she was 1300 she had some games with bad desicions, and some very good games that could take out superstrong players. I guess her calculating power was alreay back then on GM-level . She calculated really deep, in a presice way, but did lack some experience.

A drunk gm could easily slip up in a literally won position.