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# of games in database: 1,977,913
Years covered: 0 to 2025 (2026 years)
All time controls (1,977,913 games)
White wins 743,189 games (37.57%)
Black wins 560,354 games (28.33%)
674,318 games are drawn (34.09%)
Only classical time controls (1,795,359 games)
White wins 669,184 games (37.27%)
Black wins 502,578 games (27.99%)
623,567 games are drawn (34.73%)
Only non-classical time controls (182,554 games)
White wins 74,005 games (40.54%)
Black wins 57,776 games (31.65%)
50,751 games are drawn (27.80%)
Average # of moves per game: 40.64
Average Elo rating of rated players: 2162
# of games with annotation: 2,292 (0.12%)
# of games with kibitzing: 187,813 (9.50%)
# of kibitzes in total: 4,990,380
# of registered users: 355,080
# of users registered in last 30 days: 467 (0.13%)
# of registered users seen in last 90 days: 4,963 (1.40%)
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What are the highest Elo ratings achieved in the database?
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Please note that these statistics are computed from the database;
it may be incomplete, or contain errors. The displayed ratings refer to the highest rating ever achieved--not
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What players have the most games in the database?
| 1. Magnus Carlsen (5,309)
2. Viktor Korchnoi (4,893)
3. Hikaru Nakamura (4,783)
4. Levon Aronian (4,347)
5. Vasyl Ivanchuk (4,331)
6. Viswanathan Anand (4,106)
7. Ivan Farago (4,041)
8. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (3,990)
9. Fabiano Caruana (3,894)
10. Jan Timman (3,724)
11. Anatoly Karpov (3,705)
12. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (3,650)
13. Alexey Shirov (3,576)
14. Boris Gelfand (3,557)
15. Peter Svidler (3,509)
16. Alexander Grischuk (3,494)
17. Wesley So (3,378)
18. Svetozar Gligoric (3,378)
19. Michael Adams (3,328)
20. Vlastimil Hort (3,312)
| 21. Oleg Romanishin (3,273)
22. Vladimir Kramnik (3,250)
23. Pia Cramling (3,247)
24. Ian Nepomniachtchi (3,189)
25. Borislav Ivkov (3,144)
26. Aleksey Dreev (3,138)
27. Loek van Wely (3,137)
28. Anish Giri (3,130)
29. Nigel Short (3,109)
30. Lajos Portisch (3,039)
31. Alexander Beliavsky (3,035)
32. Mikhail Tal (2,968)
33. Vlastimil Jansa (2,960)
34. Sergey Karjakin (2,952)
35. Tony Miles (2,859)
36. Vasily Smyslov (2,821)
37. Wolfgang Uhlmann (2,806)
38. Bojan Kurajica (2,800)
39. Ulf Andersson (2,723)
40. Bent Larsen (2,635)
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Which players most often make winning sacrifices?
Which ECO opening chapters are played most often?
| - A07 - King's Indian Attack (47,027)
- A04 - Reti Opening (33,566)
- D02 - Queen's Pawn Game (30,820)
- B06 - Robatsch (27,092)
- B22 - Sicilian, Alapin (25,538)
- B90 - Sicilian, Najdorf (24,305)
- A45 - Queen's Pawn Game (22,792)
- A46 - Queen's Pawn Game (22,444)
- A15 - English (22,200)
- B01 - Scandinavian (19,237)
- B12 - Caro-Kann Defense (19,009)
- B32 - Sicilian (18,327)
- B30 - Sicilian (17,985)
- B07 - Pirc (17,829)
- A00 - Uncommon Opening (17,428)
- B40 - Sicilian (16,529)
- A13 - English (15,847)
- A06 - Reti Opening (15,765)
- C45 - Scotch Game (15,451)
- D37 - Queen's Gambit Declined (14,575)
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What are the most common endings?
| 1. ♖♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙ (14,820)
2. ♖♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙ (13,427)
3. ♖♙♙ vs ♖♙ (13,253)
4. ♖♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙ (8,485)
5. ♖♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙♙ (8,285)
6. ♖♙♙ vs ♖♙♙ (6,977)
7. ♖♙ vs ♖ (5,569)
8. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙♙ (4,586)
9. ♖♙♙♙ vs ♖♙ (4,559)
10. ♖♙♙ vs ♖ (4,246)
11. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♗♙♙ (4,212)
12. ♖♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙ (3,929)
13. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙♙♙ (3,907)
14. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙♙ (3,818)
15. ♖♙ vs ♖♙ (3,580)
| 16. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♗♙♙♙ (3,333)
17. ♗♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙ (3,203)
18. ♗♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙♙ (3,157)
19. ♕♙♙♙♙ vs ♕♙♙♙ (2,870)
20. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙♙♙ (2,821)
21. ♖♘♙♙♙ vs ♖♗♙♙ (2,568)
22. ♖♙♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙ (2,477)
23. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙ (2,441)
24. ♖♘♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙ (2,395)
25. ♕♙♙♙ vs ♕♙♙ (2,257)
26. ♘♙♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙♙ (2,162)
27. ♖♗♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙ (2,159)
28. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙♙ (2,130)
29. ♘♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙ (2,105)
30. ♖♘♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙♙ (2,061)
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Which chessgames.com users have kibitzed the most?
| 1. HeMateMe (90,551)
2. saffuna (77,750)
3. perfidious (69,718)
4. harrylime (53,153)
5. Jim Bartle (49,830)
6. WannaBe (49,654)
7. OhioChessFan (49,504)
8. diceman (47,834)
9. jessicafischerqueen (46,689)
10. chancho (44,576)
11. cormier (43,969)
12. whiteshark (39,693)
13. al wazir (36,892)
14. Colonel Mortimer (33,993)
15. keypusher (31,916)
16. FSR (31,458)
17. Domdaniel (30,777)
18. Bobsterman3000 (30,503)
19. Travis Bickle (30,382)
20. wordfunph (28,670)
| 21. acirce (27,865)
22. TheFocus (27,337)
23. Big Pawn (26,866)
24. Marmot PFL (26,107)
25. MissScarlett (25,792)
26. offramp (25,118)
27. Ulhumbrus (24,391)
28. SugarDom (23,852)
29. notyetagm (23,551)
30. percyblakeney (23,399)
31. Tabanus (23,114)
32. thegoodanarchist (22,966)
33. technical draw (22,033)
34. Abdel Irada (22,016)
35. Open Defence (21,704)
36. zanzibar (21,535)
37. Shams (21,008)
38. Eyal (19,106)
39. brankat (18,786)
40. WinKing (18,752)
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Which pages on chessgames.com have the most kibitzing?
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- Kibitzer's Café (322,892)
- Wesley So (212,389)
- Chessgames - Politics (109,428)
- Magnus Carlsen (83,786)
- Chessgames - Sports (74,526)
- Bobby Fischer (56,810)
- The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 (44,598)
- Vladimir Kramnik (41,418)
- Biographer Bistro (33,164)
- Kramnik - Topalov World Championship Match (2006) (29,030)
- The World vs N Pogonina, 2010 (26,713)
- The World vs A Nickel, 2006 (26,662)
- A Nickel vs The World, 2008 (23,261)
- Hikaru Nakamura (21,429)
- The World vs V Akobian, 2012 (21,222)
- Shulman vs The World, 2007 (20,941)
- Chessgames - Odd Lie (19,199)
- Viswanathan Anand (18,999)
- Garry Kasparov (18,646)
- The World vs Naiditsch, 2014 (17,668)
- Veselin Topalov (17,487)
- S Williams vs The World, 2013 (14,940)
- Eugenio Torre (14,612)
- M Umansky vs The World, 2009 (12,340)
- World Championship Candidates (2013) (12,088)
- World Championship Tournament (2007) (11,917)
- Battle of the Brains II, 2008 (11,501)
- Anand - Kramnik World Championship Match (2008) (11,072)
- Nigel Short (10,395)
- Anand - Topalov World Championship Match (2010) (10,101)
- Raymond Keene (10,041)
- Anand - Carlsen World Championship Match (2013) (9,773)
- Louis Stumpers (9,340)
- Corus Group A (2007) (9,159)
- FIDE World Championship Tournament (2005) (8,413)
- World Championship Candidates (2011) (8,277)
- V Akobian vs The World, 2011 (8,262)
- Edmund Beronio (8,036)
- World Championship Candidates (2007) (7,778)
- Corus Group A (2008) (7,653)
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Which are the most popular games for Guess-the-Move?
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- P Troeger vs Tal, 1960 (given 1580 times, par: 34)
- Morphy vs E Rousseau, 1849 (given 590 times, par: 16)
- Fischer vs J Altusky, 1954 (given 543 times, par: 13)
- Kasparov vs Andersson, 1981 (given 541 times, par: 44)
- J McConnell vs Morphy, 1850 (given 519 times, par: 19)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (given 474 times, par: 33)
- Letelier vs Fischer, 1960 (given 459 times, par: 32)
- NN vs Greco, 1620 (given 421 times, par: 98)
- J Polgar vs Mamedyarov, 2002 (given 394 times, par: 10)
- Greco vs NN, 1620 (given 377 times, par: 22)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (given 375 times, par: 36)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (given 371 times, par: 41)
- Kasparov vs A Beliavsky, 1983 (given 363 times, par: 60)
- Tal vs Lutikov, 1964 (given 351 times, par: 43)
- Greco vs NN, 1620 (given 348 times, par: 56)
- Tarrasch vs Gunsberg, 1890 (given 330 times, par: 5)
- Morphy vs A Meek, 1855 (given 330 times, par: 25)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (given 309 times, par: 30)
- Morphy vs J Schulten, 1857 (given 308 times, par: 13)
- Fischer vs P Lapiken, 1956 (given 296 times, par: 24)
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What games are frequently found in our users' Game Collections?
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- D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956 (1221)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (1114)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (1026)
- Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (979)
- Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 (949)
- R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 (872)
- Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924 (837)
- Steinitz vs von Bardeleben, 1895 (829)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (824)
- Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 (728)
- Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 (703)
- Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 (700)
- Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 (683)
- Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 (677)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (669)
- Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 (647)
- Short vs Timman, 1991 (631)
- Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 (626)
- Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (621)
- Saemisch vs A Nimzowitsch, 1923 (609)
- Polugaevsky vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (581)
- Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 (578)
- Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918 (569)
- Tal vs Larsen, 1965 (562)
- A Nimzowitsch vs Tarrasch, 1914 (555)
- Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 (552)
- Ed Lasker vs G Thomas, 1912 (549)
- Botvinnik vs Portisch, 1968 (540)
- S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 (531)
- Lasker vs Capablanca, 1914 (529)
- Lasker vs Capablanca, 1921 (524)
- Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1930 (524)
- Steinitz vs Chigorin, 1892 (520)
- McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834 (518)
- O Bernstein vs Capablanca, 1914 (512)
- Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961 (504)
- Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 (497)
- Reti vs Bogoljubov, 1924 (480)
- E Z Adams vs Torre, 1920 (468)
- A Nimzowitsch vs Capablanca, 1927 (465)
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