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Angelo De Pa1ma

2005-04-11, 5:59 pm



Reasonable, the pillar on which our very rating system is constructed, but
as I said very unlikely.

Do you really think I'd win more than one game per TEN thousand from Garry
Kasparov? There's only a 900 point difference.

Best,

Angelo

"George John" <george@neosoft.com> wrote in message
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quote:

> Angelo De Pa1ma wrote:
>
> Angelo,
>
> [SNIP]
>
> likely
> be
>
> It's not that bad -smile-. Your expected score against 5, 2300 rated
> players is about .35 (overall, you are expected to get 1 point for
> roughly every 14 games you play against 2300 players).
>
> So, if you were to play 10 events like this one, you would have an
> expected score of about 3.5 total. One draw each in 7 out of 10 of the
> events would work; although, it could be a mix of draws and wins that
> add up to 3.5, too.
>
> Does that sound reasonable?
>
> Best regards,
>



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