At those time controls, both sides are likely to make mistakes, but since masters can still frequently hold draws after mistakes, and since white is going to be pressing for a win and therefore might overextend and make over-aggressive type mistakes, I'd say yes perhaps black has a bit of an advantage in these situations. Especially since black can quite happily sit back and play extremely defensively, knowing white will have to force the issue.
Is Black better in an "Armageddon" Blitz Match?
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I know I would rather take white but that's just me
I'd thought about this before and figured I'd like white actually.
My reasoning goes black can win with a draw and will probably play something solid or at least not too risky. As white you have to win except you have an extra minute... so I'd pick white and blitz out some stupid 3rd rank defensive fortress, shuffle my pieces around, and dare black to not loose on time lol.
I also want to know what other people think. Not just Carlsen, but I believe the general GM consensus is black is better to choose -- I'd like to try my idea with white though.
Hi friends,
I was going through one of the Blitz chess matches between Onischuk (White) and Carlsen (Black). It was an Armageddon match (White is given 5 minutes to Black's 4 minutes and White has to compulsorily win the game, a draw counts as a win for Black) to resolve the Blitz ties in the previous games between them. It was interesting to hear Carlsen say after winning the match that it is advantageous to play Black in Armageddon matches?
Do you really think 1 minute is enough compensation for White to win a game? Will an Armageddon be the same for both Master and non-Master level games?
Would like to have other's opinions and comments on this.
Cheers
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