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Subject: Re: Chessmaster weaker as black?

Author: William Penn

Date: 22:25:36 12/02/00

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On December 02, 2000 at 14:23:24, eric guttenberg wrote:

>Yes, I think I'll do that (play with empty opening book)-in fact I had
>noticed that with Black CM8000 was worse by about half a pawn almost
>every time on the first move out of book and more often than not
>stayed worse the entire game-a problem that never occured with White.
>
>eric

Black is worse be half a pawn in any chess game. That is the value of white's
first move.
WP



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