Timeline for When playing a two-game match, is it better to have white in the first game?
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| Jul 21, 2021 at 10:31 | answer | added | rpdejonge | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 21, 2021 at 7:33 | comment | added | Rosie F | I think we can't give an answer that tells the OP what they need to know. The best I can do is suggest other matters the OP might want to consider. If game 1 is decisive, both of you know that game 1's loser needs to win game 2 in order to avoid losing the match, whereas game 1's winner need only avoid losing game 2 in order to win the match. Therefore, what colour you want in game 1 depends on how you rate your ability, as White (resp. Black), to win (resp. avoid loss). And also, if you know anything about your opponent's play, how you rate their ability to do the same. | |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 9:54 | comment | added | jf328 | I doubt there are statistics on this effect on chess, but we have statistical analysis on the first go advantage in penalty shoot out. the data indicate that the team that shoots first has a 60% chance of winning the penalty shootout, which in this study is significant at less than a 2% level. Even more interesting is the finding that the team shooting second has a consistently lower shooting percentage and consistently longer odds of leading the shootout after each round. So there exists a significant and persistent advantage to the team the shoots first in a penalty kick shootout. From the p | |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 8:21 | comment | added | Hauke Reddmann | I try to answer the question you (possibly) intended to ask, abstracting from edits and maybe unfortunate formulation of details, from a strictly theoretical side. (I.e. feel free to accept an answer instead which takes the time to dig up practical stats.) I assume a common setting (all blitz tiebreaks in my town are done this way): You play a blitz match, first it's "win over two games", after a tie you blitz on and the first won game decides. Colors will be swapped on each match. By the independency and additivity of expectation value argument, it doesn't matter which is your first color * | |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 8:10 | history | edited | Brian Towers♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 20, 2021 at 6:16 | comment | added | Atharv kumar | Mhm, I wil prefer white Reason- 1.Its up to you which color do you like.i like white therefore I prefer white and secondly you have an advantage over the player bcz white is very cool. Bruh!! | |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 0:36 | history | reopened |
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| Jul 19, 2021 at 23:12 | history | edited | Acccumulation | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Made it more objective
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| Jul 19, 2021 at 20:02 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| S Jul 19, 2021 at 19:43 | history | edited | Akavall | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added context that this is a relevant to tournament chess
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| S Jul 19, 2021 at 19:43 | history | suggested | ryanyuyu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added context that this is a relevant to tournament chess
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| Jul 19, 2021 at 14:51 | history | closed | Brian Towers♦ | Opinion-based | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 13:40 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 19, 2021 at 13:37 | history | asked | catalyst | CC BY-SA 4.0 |