Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 15:31:57 10/08/03
Go up one level in this thread
On October 08, 2003 at 12:59:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: >When you have a large population, you end up with lots of "sub-populations" >with slight rating differences. IE most of the USCF players in Birmingham >AL will never compete with players from Los Angeles. There might be some >crossover in that LA players might play Houston TX players and they might >the Birmingham players. But the larger the population, the more likely >this skewing happens. With small populations it is likely everyone plays >everyone (my 2 for example). You made an exmple of weakly mixing system where the time averages are not equivalent to ensabmle averages, and only local equilibria are expected.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.