11-13-2014, 02:30 PM
(11-12-2014, 10:32 AM)garvin link Wrote:I am always arguing with chess fanatics, who love to proclaim it's the only game in which luck (that is, randomness) plays no role. But the player who moves first wins somewhere between 52 and 56 percent of the time, depending on which study you believe. And the selection of who moves first is random.
Probably depends on the level. At grandmaster level my guess is that the most frequent result is a draw.