Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:33:01 10/28/99
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On October 28, 1999 at 12:34:30, Dan Andersson wrote: >>>if the difference is 300-400 elo then the weaker player has chances. >> >>To draw by chance, yes. To win? Never. > >Ahem, at our club champioship the impossible happened two times already. After >just sixty games, still seventyfive games left. Stop making noise. Just a hunch, but I suspect that with a huge ELO difference, wins are more likely than draws for the underdog. The reason I make that supposition is that a draw likely means that both players came to an evenly matched standstill (or cleverly found a repetition). But a huge blunder (unseen multi-level pin loses queen or some such ... focusing on his/her own attack...) could lead to a loss. Speaking of tigers... Like a man fighting a tiger. Unlikely for any ties. But the man might by some crazy way get a fortunate strike that somehow kills the tiger. But man and tiger running out of gas at the same time seems far-fetched.
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