Judge,
my 34 years of play, and nearly 1000 point rating difference obviously count for nothing, I bend my knee to a lowly rated schoolboy: Yes black has the avantage.
There is nothing anyone could teach you about chess.
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i did not say black has "the" advantage.i said black has "an" advantage.there is a difference.
and,mind is in the head,not in the age.
there are 14 year old GMs and 14 year old people who fall to checkmates like these:
Both of them I am white,but in black I do not have any games I won real good.Mostly wins by simple traps.(I once made a fried liver reversed without d4 so i won a rook!)
Chess is a fair game.The two sides have the same pieces,symmetrically placed on the board.I like the fact that it doesn't matter what my opponent's age and social status are.I can win the richest man in the world and lose from a 10-year-old child.Starting first is not not always better than waiting.It depends on how you use either situation to continue.I think that lessons for beginners give the impression that white has the advantage,because they show most diagrams from the white side,thus beginners develop the habit of thinking "white".
Thank you weballergy for the article.What is the Fischer random mentioned in it?