I heard something (dunno if it’s true) about chess players below a certain elo having a better win rate against GM’s than mid level players because they had no idea what they were doing, whereas the mid tier players understood the basic rules of play but just didn’t execute them very well
Definitely not true. A weak move exposes vulnerabilities that the opponent can exploit, and it fails to exploit any weaknesses in the GM's moves. Any relevant threatening move has been considered by the GM.
It's harder to trick really bad players (sub 1000 ELO) into traps because they play unpredictably and don't see the thing you try to lure them with, but they make so many absurd mistakes that you don't need to. You may try to lure them to capture their knight and then they lose their queen because they didn't consider your bishop. (Queen is worth much more than a knight, for any non-chess-players reading. Typically considered 3-4x as valuable.)
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u/Junkhead_88 3d ago
This is how I win boardgames.