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Subject: Re: A Statistical Study of Chess Results

Author: Rémi Coulom

Date: 11:45:58 02/17/05

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On February 17, 2005 at 13:17:37, James T. Walker wrote:

>I would think without doing a study that the probability of a draw increases
>with the proximity of equal ratings.  We all know GMs tend to draw games without
>a fight so they would have a higher % of drawn games.  But in games where no GM
>draw was agreed to I would guess that the farther apart the ratings of the two
>players the less likely they would draw.
>Jim

Yes, of course.

In my experiment, I only counted games with a rating difference of less than 100
elo.

Rémi



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