Answers.Body: <p>Well, I'm not sure if there's anyone who has reached from 2000 OTB rating to master level by just playing blitz online. But there's an Indian player (<strong>V. Pranav</strong>) who used to play a lot of online blitz on <a href="https://www.chess.com/stats/live/blitz/vi_pranav" rel="nofollow noreferrer">chess.com</a>. He was around <code>2300</code> in 2020 October and right now has around 2900 blitz rating. His highest being 3000.</p>
  <p>After the lockdown got over in India, he started playing a few OTBs and managed to get his IM title. Earlier in 2020, he was around 2250 in classical and now he is almost 2500. You can check this out <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/profile/25060783/chart" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
  <p>EDIT:</p>
  <p>V. Pranav became India's 75th GM on 8th August 2022.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Caveat:  V. Pranav was born in 2006.  There may be an age-related confounding factor based on time available, life responsibilities, and possibly brain physiology.  (though I agree some players learn more through playing than others, i.e. Nakamura)
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Answers.Text: A player called skrobic dragan used to have 2700+ in playchess 11-12 years ago while being fide unrated. But he must have played some kind of otb
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Body: <p>Are there chess players for example, that have gotten to say, Lichess 2700+ Blitz online without ever playing OTB and then as soon as they started OTB, they were playing at a 2000 to master level?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Hard to prove a negative, but I am convinced the answer is: no. Chess is not poker. Not quite yet.
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Title: Are there people that have played at 2000 OTB to master level by focusing on playing exclusively blitz rated games online?
ThreadText: # Are there people that have played at 2000 OTB to master level by focusing on playing exclusively blitz rated games online?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-03-31)
  
  Are there chess players for example, that have gotten to say, Lichess 2700+ Blitz online without ever playing OTB and then as soon as they started OTB, they were playing at a 2000 to master level?
  
  **Tags:** online-chess, blitz, otb-chess
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Hard to prove a negative, but I am convinced the answer is: no. Chess is not poker. Not quite yet.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2022-03-31. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  Well, I'm not sure if there's anyone who has reached from 2000 OTB rating to master level by just playing blitz online. But there's an Indian player (**V. Pranav**) who used to play a lot of online blitz on [chess.com](https://www.chess.com/stats/live/blitz/vi_pranav). He was around `2300` in 2020 October and right now has around 2900 blitz rating. His highest being 3000.
  
  After the lockdown got over in India, he started playing a few OTBs and managed to get his IM title. Earlier in 2020, he was around 2250 in classical and now he is almost 2500. You can check this out [here](https://ratings.fide.com/profile/25060783/chart).
  
  EDIT:
  
  V. Pranav became India's 75th GM on 8th August 2022.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: Caveat:  V. Pranav was born in 2006.  There may be an age-related confounding factor based on time available, life responsibilities, and possibly brain physiology.  (though I agree some players learn more through playing than others, i.e. Nakamura)  
  > **username_4**: A player called skrobic dragan used to have 2700+ in playchess 11-12 years ago while being fide unrated. But he must have played some kind of otb  
  > **username_4**: Same with yaacov norowitz.  
  
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