Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 23:09:35 01/24/00
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On January 25, 2000 at 01:58:20, Peter Kappler wrote: >On January 25, 2000 at 01:13:23, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>On January 24, 2000 at 23:15:27, Peter Kappler wrote: >> >>>> Kasparov Allowing >>>>a position with really no complications and allows an easy draw to Lputian a >>>>2605! Lputian is so low rated that he's almost in a category were Kasp probably >>>>hasn't played against in 10 years, a sub 2600 player(2500s). It could happen >>>>but both in one day! >>> >>>You are underestimating the advantage of playing the White pieces at this >level. >> >>But when was the last time Kasparov lost with black? :) I remember the Hoogovens >>tournament last year, where he won every(?) game he played with black, but kept >>drawing with white. It was quite amazing. >> >>I think the whole 'advantage' of playing the white pieces is purely >>psychological. I think Kasparov once speculated that white may be in zugzwang >>in the opening position. (Please, someone, if you can either confirm or refute >>these 'facts' I'm presenting, do so. :) > > >It's a *very* significant advantage, especially at the super-GM level. Well, psychological advantages can be some of the biggest ones. :) Just look at Kasparov. He escaped with a draw from Adams the other day, and this probably had as much to do with psychology as anything. I'm trying to speculate from an omniscient point of view - I think if the entire game-tree could somehow be searched/traversed, it would be found that white has no _real_ advantage. >I just verified this using ChessBase. I searched on all games in which both >players were rated above 2550 FIDE. Out of 21376 games, White won 6035, Black >won 3648, and 11689 were draws. > >Performance rating for white = 2654 >Performance rating for black = 2575 > >So playing the White pieces is worth 79 rating points. My stance is really more of a guess, and probably one that will never be proven right or wrong. :)
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