Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 17:55:03 12/29/99
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On December 29, 1999 at 20:30:12, pavel wrote: >hi guys, > Is there any statistics that say white wins more then black in a chess >match........ i remember when i used play as a kid all my friends used to argue >about taking which color to play .....they all wanted to play white coz they >thought it has an advantage........is it really so? i personally think it is not >true. to give a good example..... most of the chess accounts in chess servers >has this formulae (or just warning) to play equal number games to aviod color >inequality.......why is that? bacause they are afraid that they will play less >white and more black? >what do you guys think? >salam from pavel :) Yes there is. White wins more games than Black. Also playing White gives the option to select the type of opening to start off with. So that itself is a major advantage. If you have a chess database, you can search for the rate of wins, and you will find that White wins more than Black. Something like 52% wins come from White and 48% is the best Black can get. Laurence
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