Re: with perfect play, should it be 1-0, 0-1, or a draw?

On Jan 29, 4:22 pm, Sanny <softta...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 29, 4:38 pm, hanrahan...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

If White and Black both play perfectly, who wins? Or is it a
draw?

I'd be interested to know how chessplayers' opinions on this
question are distributed.

Personally I think White wins, because he starts with a clear
advantage.

I suspect most people might think the game is a draw.

Michael

If Both are a perfect player of Equal Match. Say Master/Advance
Level at GetClub Chess then I think

90% chance it will be Draw.
8% White Wins
2% Black Wins.

It will depend on Opening the White/Black Chooses. There are 100s
of Openings and Each are perfect. So for Each opening we will have
different results.

No, I am talking about two hypothetical perfect players, not two
players at "master" or "advanced" level.

Maybe only one first move by White is "perfect", necessarily leading,
against perfect play by Black, to the best available result for White.

Maybe several do. No-one knows!

No-one even knows what that result is. It may be a win by White; it
may be a draw. We can only speculate.

It may conceivably be a win by Black. In that case, of course, ANY
first move by a perfect player with the White pieces will lead to a
loss against a perfect player with the Black pieces - so the idea of a
"perfect" first move by White stops making sense! White would start
with a losing position.

I think you were answering a question different from the one I asked!

To put the question in other words: take the starting position - is it
a) a win for White, b) drawn with best play, or c) a win for Black?
There are no other possibilities.

Michael

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