i played in an atomic tourney :
http://de.lichess.org/tournament/NhxnMV7L ,where i played around 35 matches and only got white 5 times
in my last 22 games i had 21 times black this means :
(......)oooooooooxooooooooooo
is this a joke or a bug ? please look into it
It's random.
It's Probability theory.
If you still thinking that it was bug, just look at source code.
wallbug its not, possibility is equal to zero
i think theres a glitch
That's some deep probability theory right here.
I counted 19 out of 20 games. Possibility of this happening is 1/2^19, which is ~0.002, i.e. 0.2%. Not zero :P
To compare: in 5-card poker the probability of getting a flush on hand is 0.1965%.
And getting only 5 whites (or less) in 35 games is
(1C35+2C35+3C35+4C35+5C35)/2^35 = ~1.11X10^-5, i.e. 0.001%.
(I may be wrong calculating this one). That's pretty low indeed.
At least you're saving up the good luck for later. Getting the bad starting player happens to me every time.
The colour decision should be made on previous (official) games.
The player who have the worst difference (number of white side - number of black side) should have the white in current game.
No random in this !
I don't think that particularly makes an arena "fairer". It just feels more comfortable seeing a constant shift back and forth between the starting colors, while consuming way more resources in the algorithm than it has to.
Unihedron : to limit resources consuming, this could be done on the 20 (or 100) latest games.
