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Unfair practices . Really???

Your random color assignment is bogus..when you assign 7-8 games with black in a row, it's fair,

When you have bots playing like world champions and beating irrespective how good we play, it fair,

But if we abort games after being assigned 10 games with black after just one game of white, it's unfair..
And you will block us.. absolutely ridiculous....!!!
I see a run of six consequent black "games" in your recent history which you aborted.

I'm not quite sure precisely how the random colour assignment works, but one of two things happened as far as I can see:

(1) The assignment is truly random. Your run of six black games occurred by chance. This will happen from time to time. Toss six coins repeatedly, and on average one time in 64 you will get six tails.

(2) Some account is taken of which colours you played in previous games (just as it is in a Swiss tournament). In that case maybe you were "due" for Black but kept aborting the game so you were still "due" for Black.

Whichever of the two it is above (I don't know), there is nothing wrong with what happened and you should not have aborted the games.
it's (2). the algorithm is only partially random, it tries to balance your overall white to black ratio. once it decides that you need a game with the black pieces, aborting in order to get white will only lead to the algorithm assigning you more black pieces afterwards.
Can you see any pattern where I have got even 3 white games in a row.???? On black there can be six or seven also... Specially when you are close to a round figure like 1500, 1600, suddenly bots take over and keep beating you, to reduce the ratings and keep you hooked.. total scam... Disappointed
@riskypawn007 said in #5:
> Can you see any pattern where I have got even 3 white games in a row.???? On black there can be six or seven also... Specially when you are close to a round figure like 1500, 1600, suddenly bots take over and keep beating you, to reduce the ratings and keep you hooked.. total scam... Disappointed

Disappointed.
@riskypawn007 said in #5:
> Can you see any pattern where I have got even 3 white games in a row.????

well, start aborting white games and you will see such a pattern.
You have 49.7% white out of 900+ games. Seems like you are getting a pretty even shot of white vs. black.

Also, in terms of randomness, it is normal to have runs where one outcome prevails - just like if you tossed a coin.

If you are expecting the colors to alternate each turn, that is not random.
Always complaining about receiving black.
Always, always, always....
@InkyDarkBird said in #9:
> Always complaining about receiving black.
> Always, always, always....
I just realized that.
Will anyone complain about being white?
...
TBH, I've been getting white for a long time.

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