[Tom]

Actually to the best of our knowledge, chess very slightly favours white, assuming both players are evenly skilled. When playing black against an equally skilled opponent, your objective should always be to draw the game. Thats why world championships always have a series of games, rotating colours. Winning with black in these circumstances is like "breaking serve" in tennis.

In fact, this was the world's first "balance" debate: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-m...tage_in_chess/.

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Bugalugs McScruffin:

You beat me too it Tom. :)