Yes, White wins more games.
It doesn't really matter. You have to play both.
White:
Most common openings...
Queen's Gambit (d4, d5, c4)
Ruy Lopez (e4, e5, Nf3, Nc6, Bb5)
Italian Game (e4, e5, Nf3, Nc6, Bc4)
Black:
Most common responses to e4...
Sicilian Defense (e4, c5)
Berlin Defense (e4, e5, Nf3, Nc6, Bb5, Nf6)
Most common responses to d4...
King's Indian Defense (d4, Nf6, c4, g6)
East Indian Defense (d4, Nf6, c4, e6) The East Indian can lead to a number of different positions such as the Nimzo-Indian, the Queen's Indian and the Bogo Indian.
Queen's Gambit Declined (d4, d5, c4, e6)
It's absolutely matter of taste which openings you use but some have better results statistically than others. I prefer to go by the popularity of grandmaster-used openings and not by the win rate because in games, tables can turn instantly thanks to blunders or oversights and turn won positions (because of the opening) into losing instantly, so I prefer to go by the popularity because you can get a sense of what openings they play and why they play them.
Please explain how the white pieces are automatically better to play with than the black pieces. True, white temporarily holds the initiative in the opening, but black can play defenses such as the Sicilian Defense, where black can get some great center defenses and rapid queenside counterplay and this opening alone has automatically made 1. d4 a better success 1st move for white.
Against d4, black can play solid openings such as the King's Indian Defense, the Stonewall Dutch which will be a tense fight, and the dreaded Nimzo-Indian Defense, which gives black an astonishing grip on the center, equalizing very quickly. If white sidesteps the Nimzo with 3. Nf3, white has to deal with the Queen's Indian Defense with 3...b6, another difficult defense to oppose.
White does retain some slight initiative and attacking chances during these openings, but black is not immediately inferior from the start.
What is black supposed to do about white being a move ahead? The position will not always have white being the attacker and black the defender. The middlegame can turn the tables and both sides will be trying to attack. What information are the engines building off of, anyway? I don't want to "waste your time with this garbage". This is chess. Chess is a magical thing which deserves discussion in many categories. Good day sir
BOTH sides pick the opening; and its a total misconception that it is black.
if white doesn't want to play a sicilian (for example); play 1e4
in the end; each player has an equal ability to develop his forces-- unless someone makes a big mistake.
WELL; it appears to be a matter of how one sees things. For 111 960 vote chess games, the team has only played BLACK. Keeps the game even at the start.
If playing the white pieces was automatically better than playing the black pieces, why would people play and study chess if it was unfair? You're quite rude for a chess player, just saying. Have a nice evening
If playing the white pieces was automatically better than playing the black pieces, why would people play and study chess if it was unfair? You're quite rude for a chess player, just saying. Have a nice evening
Implying that chess players usually aren't rude?
I understand what you're saying, it just seemed like you were saying that white had a winning advantage from the start of the game and that black had to play very accurately to defuse white's advantage of having the initiative.
I thought fight night are on fridays? Take the board outside boys.
Any one have answers?