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First move advantage in Western Chess - why does it exist?[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Jörg Knappen wrote on Mon, Aug 13, 2012 08:45 AM UTC:
I have not analysed Chieftain Chess, therefore I cannot contribute to that
discussion.

ut here is another factlet showing the superficially very similar games can
have very different first move advantages: Sam Trenholme analysed some
Carrera Variants with different first line setups with respect to first
move advantage in this posting:

http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=23842

The numbers range from

White           win     loss    draw    games

ranbqkbnmr	46%	43%	12%	1010 

to

rmnbakbnqr	53%	37%	10%	1011 

which is remarkable. (I won't take the numbers too seriously, because the
draw rate is suspiciously low. I expect human master play to have more
draws.)