GM Ben Finegold vs WFM Alexandra Botez Bullet match Sunday 2pm EDT on twitch

There's a reason that Magnus Carlsen's official blitz rating is under 2900 meanwhile you'll see him or other people like Naka in the 3000-3100 range on lichess or whatever site they use. In my opinion if you want to estimate how a match between titled players would go, it's more accurate to rely on their official ratings than on the ratings they have on their online accounts that they play for fun.

Botez' official *blitz* rating is something like 2050 (and that seems to be current if you look at her official FIDE profile activity). Wherever her ratings is supposedly 2200, that's not accurate for the purposes of estimating what her performance will be vs a GM.

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