I have noticed happening often to have a lot of games in a row with the same color.
I have seen this predominantly in tournaments, as I play mostly in tournaments, but it can carry over in regular rated games as well.
About a week ago I had 11 consecutive games with black, then after a few days later I had 7 games in a row with black, today I had 8 in a row with black.
I have noticed it happening with white as well, I remember having 7 in a row, 5 in a row, but not as often as with black.
This is very frustrating, having 8 in a row with black, especially when you play a tournament. And when it happens with white, I think "Oh my God, it will happen next with black, I will have 8 games with black in a row again."
I am not sure why this is occurring, it seems too often to be just random. I know that it cannot be done to have one game with white, one game with black. But maybe at most 3, 4 with the same color then force a change.
It feels necessary for tournament games, rated games to have fairly the same number of black and whites games for a player. The numbers may balance out over a long period of time, but in a single tournament it is probably not fair, competitive play for someone to have 8 games with white while another has only blacks. I remember tournaments in which I was doing really well just because I kept getting only whites in a row.
Also, in the long run, I think it would be useful to have color stats in your profile, see how many white and black games you have, what is your white win percentage, black win percentage.
I wanted to report this for a long time but I always changed my mind as to not appear that I am complaining or anything but as I noticed it happening often and it made me frustrated, I thought I should report it.
I have seen this predominantly in tournaments, as I play mostly in tournaments, but it can carry over in regular rated games as well.
About a week ago I had 11 consecutive games with black, then after a few days later I had 7 games in a row with black, today I had 8 in a row with black.
I have noticed it happening with white as well, I remember having 7 in a row, 5 in a row, but not as often as with black.
This is very frustrating, having 8 in a row with black, especially when you play a tournament. And when it happens with white, I think "Oh my God, it will happen next with black, I will have 8 games with black in a row again."
I am not sure why this is occurring, it seems too often to be just random. I know that it cannot be done to have one game with white, one game with black. But maybe at most 3, 4 with the same color then force a change.
It feels necessary for tournament games, rated games to have fairly the same number of black and whites games for a player. The numbers may balance out over a long period of time, but in a single tournament it is probably not fair, competitive play for someone to have 8 games with white while another has only blacks. I remember tournaments in which I was doing really well just because I kept getting only whites in a row.
Also, in the long run, I think it would be useful to have color stats in your profile, see how many white and black games you have, what is your white win percentage, black win percentage.
I wanted to report this for a long time but I always changed my mind as to not appear that I am complaining or anything but as I noticed it happening often and it made me frustrated, I thought I should report it.