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by zsmi 1807 days ago
You have to be a bit careful there.

I'm 1500+ ELO, play blitz/raipd, and get 100% from time to time.

It's usually because I played some book moves and then my opponent fell into an opening trap that I knew and they didn't [1] and I knew exactly how to play for the win to checkmate, because I've done it before many times and remember the post game analysis from them. I didn't come up with the moves on the spot.

[1] I get tons of wins with this one, especially since Queen's Gambit came out on Netflix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Gambit_Declined,_Ele...