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Can 1500 win 2000? If anyone can,

i am rated 1200 and i have won with an 2000 rated opponent !

Proof :----

I am black here ! and opponent is white !
Impossible situation. Of course 1500 can not win 2000.
@Tabaevsky , i am rated 1200 and i have won with a 2000 rated player ! the proof is above you comment , i won the match by checkmating a 2000 rated player !
@Prajna1911 Of course every 1200 can beat 2000, even 2400 elo in chess playing websites, such as chessbase.com or lichess.org. Elo is decisive in FIDE. I can also show my game that l beat 2200 elo while l was 1500. But in FIDE, this is impossible. Also in that game we can see 10.cxb7 is not 2000 elo's move. Nobody with 2000 elo would do that because the checkmate threat is visible and basic.
@Tabaevsky while its very unlikely such blunders do happen. But what i don't believe that an im has the plan to throw away tempi, dont develop and attack with 2 pieces. And why would an im even study a luchini trap for players that don't even play chess? I believe blunders can happen, but i don't believe that a chessplayer all of a sudden plays checkers oermonopoly instead of chess.
He says he is `1016 fide. How he got to 2000 blitz is a mystery of the 20th century since he doesn't see a mate in 1.
@Tabaevsky i just watched a 1900 player lose against a 2250. Even if a 2000 doesn't blunder that bad, its fair to say they seem to have no clue about chess. Please watch im jamieson from mellbourn chess club on how not to attack. Really i couldn't tell the difference between a 1500 and 1900 player.
Technically speaking, Elo rating system (hence also Glicko and Glicko 2) is probability based. Someone rated 400 points higher will be 10 times more likely to win than their opponent, no matter if it's 1000 vs 1400, or 3000 vs 3400. If 800 points then 100 times more likely I assume?

Anyways, yeah. I think if they played enough games then the 1500 would eventually win.

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