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Subject: Re: Fritz is not champ, the match result is under the margin of error

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 03:24:51 07/29/00

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Terry,

You can download a small utility (WhoIsBetter) from my web site that show the
number of games that are needed to be statistically significant win

http://www.maughan.clara.net/computerchess.htm

It's amazing how many are needed to be 95% certain of superiority!

If you want to dig further, the statistics used in the program are based upon
the binomial distribution.

Regards

Steve



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