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Subject: Re: Playing Strength

Author: Phil Dixon

Date: 14:49:59 07/28/99

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On July 28, 1999 at 14:52:58, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

Wow!  That is not many points. I would have thought more (how many?) than that
but it is a substantial rating spread.  Thanks for enlightening me, gentlemen.
 :-)



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