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Subject: Re: Playing Strength

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:52:58 07/28/99

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On July 28, 1999 at 10:09:08, Paulo Soares wrote:
[snip]
>Laurence, a 1700 player can win a 2200 player, this is a statisc
>question. The problem is: what the probalility of a 1700 player
>win a 2200 player?
win expectancy = 0.0532402152020224 {which includes wins+draws}
On average, in a 100 game match, the 1700 player would score 5 points.

Don't forget that Kasparov, Fischer, etc. were all counted as 1700 players at
some point (admittedly, not for long).  These things factor into the statistics
also.



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