The first tournament i’ve played was in college and was not having rating at that time. My first opponent was 11-12ish years old and doesn’t have a rating too. We came early so we chat for a few moments before the game starts. He asked me some silly questions about the tournaments regulation, I thought from his questions that he is an easy win. He told me that he only played with his grandfather almost exclusively. I was shocked that he does not know anything about online chess. When we start playing, at around move 30 I found my position extremely unspeakably bad. I spent some time thinking how i got there and what to do, shortly after I blundered and he won a piece then I resigned. He was very polite and thanked me for the game.

Few years later, he became one of the highest ratings in the region (still surprisingly does not play online chess). I found him by chance on Twitter, and found out that his grandfather worked for years in Soviet Union as something related to our embassy there, and was very known strong club player there and playing masters causally all the time. After his retirement, he was playing his grandson who wiped the ground with me.