, omg you need to learn chess database first, the lower the rating, the higher win/loss! The higher the rating, the more draw. 3300+ engines like SF/Komodo/Houdini in standard 90mins/game in std pc have 90-95% draw rate now. The draw rate will be higher when the rating are even higher. In ten years, there will be 95-98% draw rate and so on. Some computer experts believe that at rating between 4000- 5000, there will be 100% draw and engines will reach perfection.(solved)
I didn't say the draw rate is higher because everyone knows most games at the highest level end in draws. I said the percentage of white wins is higher. The higher the rating, the higher the percentage of white wins. At the very highest level is where white wins the most. We aren't talking about low rated games where huge mistakes results in large swings in wins for either side. So both the rate of draws is going up AND the rate at which white wins is going up too. To me that says it's far to early to be speculating about what can be forced from the start of the game. I understand there is a belief that white can always win and there is another belief that its a draw. But both beliefs are based on something no one has ever seen, and that is "best play" from the start of the game. As long as humans and machines still make mistakes best play is probably a long way off.
False, cause white always starts. They get the first move and the first chance to advance.
To definitively say it’s false you need to go beyond the first move being an advantage for players (humans and computers alike), who have not solved the game.
To say White wins a perfectly played game, is to say Black starts off trapped in a mating net before the first piece has ever been moved.
I find that extraordinarily unlikely.