Author: Bryan Hofmann
Date: 11:28:01 03/30/04
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On March 30, 2004 at 13:28:36, Pierre Chevalier wrote: >An important subject on this site has been the number of games necessary >for a result to be statistically meaningful. My question is whether >Kasparov and Karpov have played enough games against one another or if >Kasparov's margin of victory has been large enough to be statistically >meaningful? Most chessplayers only play one another maybe ten times >but K and K played each other in 144 championship level games. Anyone >can answer but Theron and Utzinger I know have expertise on this matter. Since I do not know the wins/loss numbers of these games I have to work with percentages. If Kasparov won 60% of the 144 games then yes at a significance of 99% you can say Kasparov is better.
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