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Subject: Re: Performance between white and black

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 18:38:03 02/29/04

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On February 29, 2004 at 13:06:39, Michel Langeveld wrote:

White starts and black doesn't. So white is having an advantage always which
black does not have.

It's perfectly logical that when put in statistics this means that white scores
more than black.


>A chessprogram doesn't play equally strong with white and black.
>With white a program plays normally stronger as with black.
>
>I seed always with 2000
>
>I found out the following:
>26 Dorky 3.48 white      : 2053 (63 elo difference)
>40 Dorky 3.48 black      : 1990
>
>4 Tao 5.6 white          : 2241 (73 elo difference)
>8 Tao 5.6 black          : 2168
>
>21 Nullmover 0.25 white  : 2073 (92 elo difference)
>44 Nullmover 0.25 black  : 1981
>
>13 Esc 1.16 white        : 2143 (102 elo difference)
>29 Esc 1.16 black        : 2039
>
>What should be a normal difference between white and black?
>
>Is 92 elo too much?
>
>Michel



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