Why is it . . .

Every single time I go to accept a open seek game, where the color I can play is listed as "random" I always, always, always, get Black?!?

It's every singke time.  The last 20+ plus games in a row at least.  They only time I get to play as White is if I set up the game and I choose my color.

Is this just me or does this happen a lot?

Tell me if I'm crazy.

There is a 2^20 chance of this happening. There are 492,616players on chess.com. 2^20 = 1,048,576. Meaning there is an approximately 1/4 chance that this will happen to somebody. Much higher chance if you consider that the average member has played more than 20 chess games.

Unless when you press random it will also pair you with players who only want to play white. I'm not sure. But if this is true then the chances are far higher.

So there's a pretty good chance this is all logical and the random number generator doesn't hate you.

As for the last sentence, anyone who's good at chess needs to be at least moderately insane.

Thanks for the reply.

But two more Open Seeks viewed and two more times I've gotten Black.

I'm not sure how 'random' the random selection is.  :)  But when I challenge somebody over and over again I always have the 'random' selected and what happens is that we alternate colors each game.  I'm thinking if you challenge those that you played in the opening seeks and select 'random' then you will probably play white.  :)

 That is ablosutely true. If the random number generator choses for you to play white, then in a rematch you will be black and vice versa.

What we learn in computing is that random number generator are never truly random. It is very likely that the game selection is set up as such that if you choose to be black, it will only match you with player that choose white, and vice versa. But when you choose random, it just match you up with anybody that happens to be avaliable at the time. In that case, if a large number of players want to play white, then you'd get black very often.

Now, if you have another game with the same player again, then you will probably get white. I think its only "random" for the first game.