Author: Oliver Roese
Date: 16:57:11 04/27/02
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On April 27, 2002 at 12:34:33, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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 Ken Thompson constructed once a new rating system for chess-professionals and extracted these numbers from a huge amount amount of gmgames. So the advantage of white between lower rated player was not measured. One can't compare the opening of lower rated players with that of world-class players, there is huge difference. I assume the advantage for white between lower rated human players should be lower. Since in comp-comp games you don't need to worry about missing data, the need for a correction is not that much i think. Simply play another game with twisted colors. Oliver
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