How is black or white chosen?

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Squaredancer2020

I'm new at chess .com.  My question is what determines whether you have black or white when playing a live game?

Chess_Player_lol

It is randomly chosen

Chess_Player_lol

Well technically computers cant make it random but it is psuedo random which is the closest a computer can get to randomness

snoozyman
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eric0022
Chess_Player_lol wrote:

Well technically computers cant make it random but it is psuedo random which is the closest a computer can get to randomness

 

You actually read up your statistics and programming well! It's not that often that I hear this phrase from players!

 

(Though it's spelled pseudo random actually)