catdogorb schreef:
That's right. You beat a terminally ill, heavily medicated, 70 year old's grandson. I hope you're happy.
Oh yeah man! I got the scoresheet all printed out, framed and hanging in my trophy room!
Titled players on chess.com, are they for real?
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chuddog schreef:
Keep in mind that online chess is only sort of representative of someone's skill level. Maybe he was playing with his grand-kids at the same time and was distracted. Maybe his internet connection was bad. Maybe he made a mouse slip that made his position worse.
You're right, i'm not taking into account all the external factors which i am often bothered by myself when playing an online game.
Because unless grandmaster Mihai Suba suffered some kind of brain injury that affected his play (which i hope not), i cannot believe he let me beat him last night. Okay, so i won on time. But even that seems odd for a grandmaster versus a "somewhere between class A and class B" player in a 15/10 rapid game. The same goes for his ratings. He played 15000+ blitz games, only to end up with a rating of 1800+. His highest being 2100+. If this guy is a fraud i think it is disrespectfull towards the real Mihai Suba, and the profile should be taken down.
Brain injury? There's no evidence of that. You beat him on time. He is 70 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai_Suba
You beat him on time, not over the board.
The 70 years-old may or may not apply here, but it surely does to some extent overall Personally, at age 67 1/2, I'm much more likely to blunder at blitz than rapid, more on rapid than 30 min, etc.