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How to be an enlightened chess player (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/anarchychess@sopuli.xyz

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[–] neptune@dmv.social 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Does Lichess check for this? I definitely get an aborted game more often when I am white. I also notice my ELO went up after I actually locked down strategies for black. Yeah it's only like a 0.5% advantage for the masters, but if you play a lot of games, aborting everytime you are black is a helpful strategy.🤷

Apparently it's more like a 5% advantage for us normies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-move_advantage_in_chess

[–] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 months ago

Yes it does. If you avoid games too much you get a ban I think

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 7 points 10 months ago

aborting everytime you are black