Fast Algorithm for Calculating Probability of Chess Winning Streaks
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| author | Diao, Guoqing |
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| contents | Motivated by the controversy in the chess community, where Hikaru Nakamura, a renowned grandmaster, has posted multiple impressive winning streaks over the years on the online platform chess.com, we derive the probabilities of various types of streaks in online chess and/or other sports. Specifically, given the winning/drawing/losing probabilities of individual games, we derive the probabilities of "pure" winning streaks, non-losing streaks, and "in-between" streaks involving at most one draw over the course of games played in a period. The performance of the developed algorithms is examined through numerical studies. |
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| spellingShingle | Fast Algorithm for Calculating Probability of Chess Winning Streaks Diao, Guoqing History and Overview Probability Applications Computation Motivated by the controversy in the chess community, where Hikaru Nakamura, a renowned grandmaster, has posted multiple impressive winning streaks over the years on the online platform chess.com, we derive the probabilities of various types of streaks in online chess and/or other sports. Specifically, given the winning/drawing/losing probabilities of individual games, we derive the probabilities of "pure" winning streaks, non-losing streaks, and "in-between" streaks involving at most one draw over the course of games played in a period. The performance of the developed algorithms is examined through numerical studies. |
| title | Fast Algorithm for Calculating Probability of Chess Winning Streaks |
| topic | History and Overview Probability Applications Computation |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11669 |