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Thymo
... please.
It's common knowledge that white has the advantage of the first move, so how come it's allowed to rated chess games with statistically higher chances to win?
Is that fair?
It also spams the game obtions for people who want to play fair. 90% (almost then) of all rated game offers specifies that you have to be black (pieces, not ethnicity).
I suggest that when one plays rated, one should be assigned a random colour.
Anyone with me?
Vyomo
Na
For a start I never agreed with white's advantage
Black has the opportunity to choose the opening
e.g white plays e4 i play c5 we get into sicilian
Black can also counterattack
However the idea of randomness might be changed to the game being halved into 2 with one game white one game black
So instead of 10-0n 10-0g game we split it into 1) 5-0 n 5-0g then 5-0 g 5-0 n
cofail
It is unfair, but if you want to play a series of games with alternative colours for a league, but not all in a row, you need this function.
Seems like someone was with me... Hihihihi, thanks chess.com! :)
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