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Mark: I would guess that 16 games between two evenly matched grandmasters usually results in 9 points for White and 7 points for Black. That would represent a 50 point rating advantage, under the former Canadian system. In the New York 1924 Tournament the players with the White pieces scored 28-27 in the first half and 33-22 in the second half. White's total score for this 11 player double round robin was 61 out of 110, or 55.45 percent.
The statistics button in Chessbase 8.0 informs me that White scored +123, =137, -71 in the 331 games played in 17 world chess championship matches from 1886 to 1937. That is 57.85 percent for White. I count 536 games played from the 1948 tournament to Kramnik - Leko (2004), leaving out all the FIDE events after Short and Kasparov left. White scored +140, =325, -71 or 56.44 percent. Draws are getting more common at the highest level - but that is another topic.