Author: Peter Hegger
Date: 00:09:36 12/30/99
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On December 29, 1999 at 21:05:55, James Robertson wrote: >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 I read but don't quite recall where, that white has about a 52-48% winning advantage with the white pieces. This isn't much of course but still enough of a reason to want the white pieces. Peter
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