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Subject: Re: Match results - a complete(!) theory (long)

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 15:19:21 02/18/01

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On February 18, 2001 at 16:44:46, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 18, 2001 at 16:14:34, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>
>>
>The assumption is not correct because usually we know something.
>
>We also know that the probability of white to win is not the same as the
>probability of black to win.
>

Of cource you'r right. It was a starting point in order to show how it works.
Whatever knowledge we have of the distribution of Pw and Pd could be taking care
of in the model. I also tried to show that the number of draws really is an
issue here and therefore not rely on the Binomial distribution.
Peter



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