Be confident and make them prove to you they can beat you. Hang tough and try. Stay focues because you can't make too many errors against that line-up. I envy your challenge, I had similar opportunities when I was a class player.
So i just found out my tournament next week has masters in it....
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Wish I could be there. Have fun and beat a few masters
Jan 8, 2013
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Just go play them. At 1700, you are almost sure to lose, but you won't get blown off the board, and unlike an engine, they can (might) explain a few things afterwards. Playing against masters is one of the reasons to go to tournaments or clubs.
And, as a 1300ish player, I find it consistently amusing what strong players think I was planning by certain moves; they will say things like "now when you did this I was concerned because of course, bam, bam, bam, but fortunately it doesn't work after THIS, because of bam, bam, bam," and I'm thinking to myself all I wanted was to get my bishop out of the way of my rook and I had no idea of any of the rest of it.
Along the same lines, I remember going to the Pensacola Chess Club when I lived there (over twenty years ago). NM A.J. Goldsby was studying a book and he liked to talk to people about positions. He says he thinks the author is wrong about a certain move and asks what I think. I say, well I'm 1300 and you are over 2200, but if you want to know what I think I agree with the author. So he asks "what are you going to do about THIS" and makes a move. I make a move and he makes a move. I make a move and he looks at it for about 30 seconds and says something like "Hmm, maybe." I have NO IDEA what he saw in all that. So, playing with masters can be fun.
I have a tournament for junoirs in Miami U18 in a week. I jsut found out a womans canidate master, a national master, and a 2100 player will be there. There are only 30 people signed up for this tournament so im bound to player those monsters. The tournament is 6 rounds an hour each player. For the past week ive been training by reading my system and doing tactics and studying endgame. Im a 1700 over the board player please any advise is welcome