Author: GuyHaworth
Date: 04:23:48 10/27/02
Playing White is reckoned to be an advantage. This has to be taken into account when determining pairings in a Swiss tournament (see earlier, re the Dutch CC Tournament currently on.) Suppose then that White's time allowance was reduced uniformly by x% in all phases of play. Averaging across a large number of games, what value would x have increased to by the time you were preferring to play Black? x = 0% means you prefer to play White (as surmised). x = 100% means you have no time, so you would prefer to play Black x = X and you prefer to play Black ==> x > X means you still prefer Black Therefore there must be a figure for x =< 100%. g
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