Reliable Method To Play As White >50% (?)

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llama47

I recall a mod / staff member saying that when you seek a game, the color is random. In other words it's not looking at your history, it just randomizes the color and the law of large numbers takes care of the rest, pushing your colors close to 50/50. This method makes sense for multiple reasons.

But if this is true, you could use this to get more whites by offering / accepting as many rematches as possible after you've played as black (and none when you've played as white)... because that way you'd be adding white games.

duntcare

yes probility

duntcare

but what if i said that then your next game is more likely to be black if you were white

llama47

Yeah, they'd have to look at your history to prevent this, which will have some non-zero computation cost.

But it's probably not worth preventing, because I imagine you'd almost certainly be between 50-55% in any case.

But I thought it's an interesting idea.

JackRoach

Interesting idea... 

BattleSoldier

Yes, interesting idea. My games are exactly even with 50% white and 50% black. I think I need practice for both though, Llama! Now if I could do that for in person tourney play - that would be sweet.

Shoveller762
I’ve played four or five bullet games as black in a row, before, but in Swiss tourneys on this site, I think they try to switch every round