Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:20:37 07/17/00
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On July 16, 2000 at 14:58:32, blass uri wrote:
>On July 16, 2000 at 14:45:30, Christophe Theron wrote:
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>>>I think that there may be a factor of luck in the choice of the opening.
>>>I think that in order to avoid this problem you can play 150 games with white
>>>and after it play 150 games with black with reversed colours.
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>>That's what he did, read again.
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>You are right
>
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>>I think playing the same openings with reversed colors does not change the
>>statistical margin of error, but as we are playing chess it sounds like a
>>logical thing to do.
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>I still believe that it changes the margin of error but I guess based on your
>results that the change is very small and that the standard deviation is maybe
>only 10% smaller.
>
>There are cases when one side get a winning position or a draw position out of
>book.
>if you play the same position in both sides these games will be 1-1
>
>If you do not play the same positions both sides it is possible that the weaker
>player will be lucky and get more wins from the opening or more draws with
>black.
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>
>Uri
Yes I understand your point but unfortunately I don't have enough mathematical
background to translate it into a formula...
Intuitively it sounds right.
Christophe
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