2 game series will legitimize ratings and make Chess Sexier

Statement 1: Most experts agree that white has a slight advantage over black.
Statement 2: A player who plays in FIDE Tournaments will, by virtue play about 50% of their games as white and about 50% of their games as Black.
Statement 3: Unfortunately on Lichess, there are players who only play white. I personally think this is ridiculous and delegitimizes ratings almost as much as players who use engines.
Solution: Can Lichess set up a Two game SERIES option (especially for Blitz and Bullet) in which if both players, once agreeing to play in a SERIES, must play TWO rated games, one as black one as white respectively? This will give the opportunity for fair play.
If players wish to continue to only play white and then leave, that is acceptable, but I don't want to play with them and will not enter into solo matches with them. I want fair play. When I win as white (in bullet), I always play at least one game as black. I wish this was more common practice.

@juliegirl1999 welcome to the unfair chess world. your suggestion is practiced in a chess club usually bcs of the limited number of players available. A common "rule" is also that the weaker opponent gets the white pieces.

In the end you should learn to destroy your opponent with the black pieces too so... every game you get black it's actually good for you to learn sth.

Great chess quote on the subject: "When I am White, I win because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogoljubow." :]

("Unless I am Black against Alekhine.")

"Unfortunately on Lichess, there are players who only play white. I personally think this is ridiculous and delegitimizes ratings almost as much as players who use engines."

wow

#1 Actually I've made a suggestion to take Glickman's paper literally: since White is more likely to win than Black, the rating system could account for this.

Honestly, the only time I've ever played games as just one color, it's been to practice a new opening I'm learning. It's especially useful as black when trying to learn a defense, because most defenses require white to play a certain way, so if I'm trying to practice a Sicilian line for example, only around 60% of opponents will play e4, and if you add in the probability of you getting white around 50% of the time, it's hard to consistently practice a certain line. Same goes for white, but you get a little bit more control over the first move, at least.

Basque Chess (two players play each other as white and black in two simultaneous games) would be a pretty fun variant. It would probably require too many tweaks to the existing interface to implement though.

Or the obvious solution, remove the option to pick a color in rated games, and have the server decide who gets each color based on player history, so if they have played rated before it will just alternate the colors from the last rated game, and if not it will pick the colors at random.
The "rated" part is pretty important, otherwise abusers will alternate rated games as white and unrated as black when playing BOTS or unobservant humans.

@juliegirl1999 I don’t know what you are talking about.
You cannot choose your colour for a rated game but for casual yes.