I can't remember which famous player once said that every grandmaster plays like a professional for 45 games out of 50, and like an amateur for the other 5, while the talented amateur plays like a professional 5 games out of every 50. Or something like that. I play a friend regularly who is 500 rating points below me. In the last 25 games, he has beaten me twice while I've won the rest. About par for the course according to this wisdom (though of course I'm not a professional!).
Lost to an 1100!!!!
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Finally some comments getting back on track. That shit was getting out of hand.
Mar 5, 2017
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#24
So I just played a game of rapid. I left the rating settings open because I got sick of waiting for an opponent, I got paired against an 1100 and immediately thought of this thread lol. I actually got kinda nervous for a second I was like oh god I can't lose to this guy after poking fun at that guy on the forums! I beat him quick though so disaster avoided lol.
Somebody_ wrote:
so? i beat a 1600 as a 400 rated player
And I beat a GM in less than 15 moves by checkmate.
2Q1C wrote:
So every time you lose you cry cheater? Why doesn't that surprise me?
Submit a report just to make sure they weren't cheating. I do that every time someone rated lower beats me. Better safe than sorry.
Badmarc4 hat geschrieben:
Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap
I recently hit 2000 in my blitz,
and in my standard, i lose a game to an 1100!!!
granted it was a hanging checkmate I failed to spot, but still, it's terrible...
do you ever lose to people reeeeeeeally low rated?? plz share
Grats to your great game!
It only shows that if you work hard on something you can achieve almost anything. Now if you keep at it, you'll manage to lose against a 1000 player soon.
Wishing you good luck with that 
2Q1C wrote:
No. Calling lower ranked players names isn't right. Crying cheat every time you're beat isn't right. The only thing worse than your stupidity is your arrogance.
Better safe than sorry though. Am I right?
DamonevicSmithlov wrote:
Respect
No, but I resigned after I thought I blundered a knight. Then when I checked the game later it turned out I shouldn't have resigned because in just a couple more moves I get the fuggin knight back! Jeez, that was pretty lazy and lame of me. I deserved to lose just because I was too lazy to sit there at the board and work through the situation. I solid work ethic at the board will add a LOT to your rating.
2Q1C wrote:
You're a fish. A 16 year old, living with mommy, no job, no bills, spending all his time on a web forum claiming to be the next Fischer...who by the way, was already a GM at your age. Take my advice, go buy a weight set and mass up.
I do respect all players. Fish are people who don't even try and get good.
Mar 6, 2017
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#31
2Q1C, Fischer's games are treasures to us all. But there is very little else about him that was "cool"
Fischer cried when he was young and getting beaten and the older chess players called him fish. Then he did the same thing when he was good. It's a tragic cycle of bullying, do you want to be a part of that? I sure don't!
Mar 6, 2017
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Bonsai_Dragon wrote:
2Q1C wrote:
I do respect all players. Fish are people who don't even try and get good.
You're a fish. A 16 year old, living with mommy, no job, no bills, spending all his time on a web forum claiming to be the next Fischer...who by the way, was already a GM at your age. Take my advice, go buy a weight set and mass up.
You can enjoy muscles for a few years. You can enjoy chess for a lifetime.
If you want to give him advice, it should be something like work harder in school.
It's the thought of him going to school with that holier than thou attitude that led to the advice to mass up
How'd that end for him?
From the history of it, it seems money was important to him on some level, but a distant second compared to certain unflinching principles and beliefs.
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Mar 6, 2017
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#38
He lost a lot of his money by giving it to a cult. Later he realized the cult was... well, a cult.
2Q1C wrote:
Another falsehood. Fischer died broke and homeless, you'd think you'd know that about your idol. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/crosswords/chess/19fischer.html
Well with him dying and still having millions in the bank.
Mar 6, 2017
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I mean, like most players I've spent hours of my life playing through Fischer games and marvelling at his brilliance, at his clarity. And his solo showdown with the Russian chess juggernaut in the late 60s-early 70s is one of the greatest stories in the history of the game.
But it pretty much ends there, because the rest of it was ranting about the Jews, who stole his chess clocks, who stole his notes he was going to use for a book about the "prearranged" Kasparov-Karpov match, who control the world, who perpetuate the "lie" of the Holocaust, etc. The last few years of his life very few if any people could stand to be around him at all. He was that repellent. Don't be like that guy.
Just don't play against players lower rated than you