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First move advantage in Western Chess - why does it exist?[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
George Duke wrote on Mon, Aug 20, 2012 03:13 PM UTC:
(1) Some few Fischer Random positions may remove the White advantage. (2) Among CVs, given full rules-sets, there are higher percentage having Black advantage in general the smaller the board size. That just means it pays not to have to open. I think it was already said that large CVs 100 squares up, rarely is it possible to see advantage either side, but that may be because only a few CVs have a data base even over 100 games. (3) What Mats Winther just says enters a tournament over 6 games or 12 games by player scaling how riskily to play for win or draw according to the changing points total and seeing near the end whether and when he has Black. And so on, weighing first-move advantage into strategic calculation.