Engine-Equal, Human-Unequal: A Reproducible Outcome Skew in Engine-Assessed Equal Chess Positions

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2607.25655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Among chess opening positions that a strong engine judges essentially equal (Stockfish 18 evaluation within 10 centipawns of zero, depth-stable) and that humans actually reach on Lichess (October 2025; 1,661 positions, 16.1M occurrences), human results are not balanced. Positions carry outcome skews, each the gap between its games' actual results and what the players' ratings predict, whose directions are stable properties of the naturally-reached position: some positions favour White, others Black. These skews reproduce across three re-partitions -- disjoint player-account sets (primary), time, and disjoint rating bands -- and on an out-of-sample month eight months later. On the primary split, each position's skew is measured once in each ac