Author: Pete Galati
Date: 04:52:46 12/30/99
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On December 29, 1999 at 20:55:03, Laurence Chen 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 :) >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 This was the results from a recent Winboard tournament that I ran, it's very much in line with your 52% figure I think: Total Games: 330 White Wins: 171 (51.8%) Black Wins: 127 (38.5%) Draws: 32 (9.7%) Unfinished: 0 (0.0%) Pete
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