On: How some common material imbalances affect your wi...

[queuebert]

Over a long series of games, two players with equal Elo playing the same number of games as white will have a 50/50 score.

[ladberg → queuebert]

I mean I agree that's the ideal but not necessarily true in practice. I bet if you took two random players of the same Elo and pit them against each other many times, it would not be 50/50.

[queuebert → ladberg]

True, but that error will average out across a large section of players, and lichess has probably the largest database of players in the world.