Author: Pat King
Date: 12:40:32 03/22/99
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On March 22, 1999 at 00:21:29, KarinsDad wrote: [snip] > >2) Yermo is not getting paid per win and per draw. Hence, he has no financial >incentive (although he may have a personal motivation) to get a score higher >than 3.5. Hence, the probabilites above (assuming a 2500 H7 rating) for 3.5 and >4.0 should be higher and the probabilities for 5.0 through 6.0 should be lower >(the probabilities for 4.5 may be fairly close). > >KarinsDad True, but then, the draw rate among GMs is due to a lot of factors other than chess or money. If Yermo (or any human) were as earnest and consistent in his efforts as H7, chess would have far fewer draws, I think. I believe my analysis reflects this fairly well, but I doubt Yermo and H7 are willing to "go the distance" to validate it :) Pat
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