Author: James Robertson
Date: 18:05:55 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 :)) Several years ago someone published a book with white's percentage at 57%. That is a fairly large advantage. My program scores 60-80% of its wins with white. I remember Frank played a 20-game match Insomniac - Francesca, and black scored a grand total of about 2.5 points. James
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