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queuebert
on June 13, 2023
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How some common material imbalances affect your wi...
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
on June 13, 2023
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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
on June 14, 2023
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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.
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