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Subject: Re: Should softwares have a white rating greater than a black rating?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 09:34:33 04/27/02

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On April 27, 2002 at 12:22:23, Jonathan Lee wrote:

>During man vs. comp. I have seen more than 2/3 of the wins between white and
>black from the human are from the white pieces.
>
>Obviously the ratings could be (white comp. rating > black comp. rating).
>
>I have seen Piket, Kramnik, Dreev, and very few other GM's in the top 100 in the
>world have won as black pieces in slow games.
>
>Am I statistically correct or softwares are equally fallable at both sides of
>the board?
>Jonathan (150 CCC message)

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but white does have an advantage
in chess, that is approximately equal to 35 rating points.

This number is probably similar for computers.

--
GCP



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