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Subject: Re: Question for Theron or Utzinger

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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