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Originally posted by Fat Lady
Here is the first in an occasional series of games where a strong player plays a real stinker.
Game 3429241

[pgn][Event "Challenge"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2007.04.12"]
[EndDate "2007.04.26"]
[Round "?"]
[White "ChaosChild"]
[Black "sunshine100"]
[WhiteRating "2007"]
[BlackRating "941"]
[WhiteELO "2007"]
[BlackELO "941 ...[text shortened]... er seen such a shambolic performance on this site by a 2000+ player!
Yes, we're a small country. Only five times bigger than the UK.

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Originally posted by Fat Lady
Here is the first in an occasional series of games where a strong player plays a real stinker.
Game 3429241

[pgn][Event "Challenge"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2007.04.12"]
[EndDate "2007.04.26"]
[Round "?"]
[White "ChaosChild"]
[Black "sunshine100"]
[WhiteRating "2007"]
[BlackRating "941"]
[WhiteELO "2007"]
[BlackELO "941 er seen such a shambolic performance on this site by a 2000+ player!
edit: well, nevermind.

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Originally posted by Green Paladin
Yes, we're a small country. Only five times bigger than the UK.
I've only visited Africa once. I had never even heard of the country I had to go to (Gabon) so I looked it up on the internet and found out it was larger than the UK!

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Even 2200 players can lose in 3 moves at times as in Game 3533889.

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Originally posted by Green Paladin
Yes, we're a small country. Only five times bigger than the UK.
This is true and with an IQ to match!

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Originally posted by Green Paladin
Yes, we're a small country. Only five times bigger than the UK.
There' something wrong here. White could have mated on the
5'th move. There is no way white can have a rating of 2000+

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Originally posted by davidgrayson
There' something wrong here. White could have mated on the
5'th move. There is no way white can have a rating of 2000+
There are many reasons why a player may be able to go from 1200 to over 2000 within 1 year.
This thread gives us all inspiration!

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Game 4719249

One of the worst of my games in this site. After losing one pawn and sacrificing second pawn for some counter play I gave up third pawn because of wrong position of my chess set.

Game 4692070

10...e3?? - I wanted to play 10...Bxg4 with 11...e3 but unfortunately made second move of my plan first.

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Originally posted by Squelchbelch
A player rated nearly 2400 loses the plot against a 1250.
Game 2792075

[pgn][Event "Challenge"]
[Site "http://www.playtheimmortalgame.com"]
[Date "2006.11.22"]
[EndDate "2006.11.30"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Dodgey Dave 1"]
[Black "mgbal"]
[WhiteRating "1246"]
[BlackRating "2382"]
[WhiteELO "1246"]
[BlackELO "2382"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Game ...[text shortened]... phylactic early moves, but they do set-up a thrilling tactical finale!
This is not only his bad game. There are much more games played in quite low level. Some examples:

Game 3167063
Game 3073008
Game 3243519
Game 2891816
Game 2907112

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Also sfc1602 had his bad days....

Game 3877195
Game 3883145 missing elementary12...Qxf2
Game 3877195 missing elementary mate in 2 - 6.Qxf7+ Kd8 7.Qxf8X

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So far I've only had one really wretched blunder (vs. Karami)*knockwood*. Plenty of other bad moves and bad positions but most were at least semi-plausible, and versus opponents who had to play well to exploit my errors (Ex: east in Game 4291049).

I was very worried vs. a 1200 player in Game 3403379 - 10.f4 and 11.fxe5 were just appalling.

Also 1500-rated Najdork had me in a head-squeeze in Game 4577197 but I wriggled out of it.

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Current #51 on the site (and with 1500+ moves already this month!) has a very bad day at the office.

Game 4645862

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Originally posted by Squelchbelch
Current #51 on the site (and with 1500+ moves already this month!) has a very bad day at the office.

Game 4645862
1500 moves in three days?

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Originally posted by Fat Lady
Here is the first in an occasional series of games where a strong player plays a real stinker.
Game 3429241

[pgn][Event "Challenge"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2007.04.12"]
[EndDate "2007.04.26"]
[Round "?"]
[White "ChaosChild"]
[Black "sunshine100"]
[WhiteRating "2007"]
[BlackRating "941"]
[WhiteELO "2007"]
[BlackELO "941 ...[text shortened]... er seen such a shambolic performance on this site by a 2000+ player!
wow, his game was on the fritz there..

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Originally posted by irontigran
wow, his game was on the fritz there..
Please don't pollute this thread with insinuations. 🙂