The following statistics give an insight into our
database of chess games and the people who use it.
 Tell me some general statistics about the database.
 | # of games in database: 700,802
Years covered: 1475 to 2013 (539 years)
White wins 262,014 games (37.39%)
Black wins 192,309 games (27.44%)
246,468 games are drawn (35.17%)
Average # of moves per game: 40.10
Average Elo rating of rated players: 2201
# of games with annotation: 2,080 (0.30%)
# of games with kibitzing: 107,626 (15.36%)
# of kibitzes in total: 3,126,455
# of registered users: 196,465
# of users registered in last 30 days: 1,705 (0.87%)
# of registered users seen in last 90 days: 13,087 (6.66%)
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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
the current rating. Consult the FIDE Chess Ratings Page
for official information. |
What players have the most games in the database?
| 1. Viktor Korchnoi (4,463)
2. Anatoly Karpov (3,553)
3. Jan Timman (3,473)
4. Vassily Ivanchuk (3,177)
5. Svetozar Gligoric (3,144)
6. Mikhail Tal (2,805)
7. Lajos Portisch (2,762)
8. Alexey Shirov (2,710)
9. Viswanathan Anand (2,705)
10. Vlastimil Hort (2,663)
11. Vasily Smyslov (2,639)
12. Bent Larsen (2,529)
13. Michael Adams (2,481)
14. Boris Gelfand (2,474)
15. Borislav Ivkov (2,468)
16. Anthony Miles (2,442)
17. Vladimir Kramnik (2,437)
18. Nigel Short (2,427)
19. Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (2,401)
20. Loek Van Wely (2,374)
| 21. Garry Kasparov (2,348)
22. Boris Spassky (2,292)
23. Ratmir Kholmov (2,278)
24. Ulf Andersson (2,275)
25. Efim Geller (2,252)
26. Alexander Beliavsky (2,230)
27. David Bronstein (2,180)
28. Alexey Dreev (2,160)
29. Peter Svidler (2,090)
30. Oleg Romanishin (2,074)
31. Paul Keres (2,065)
32. Mark Taimanov (2,038)
33. Artur Yusupov (2,035)
34. Lubomir Ftacnik (2,008)
35. Ljubomir Ljubojevic (1,985)
36. Vlastimil Jansa (1,980)
37. Lev Polugaevsky (1,957)
38. Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1,940)
39. Alexander Alekhine (1,940)
40. Jan Plachetka (1,932)
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Which players most often make winning sacrifices?
Which ECO opening chapters are played most often?
| - A04 - Reti Opening (11,481)
- B06 - Robatsch (10,205)
- B22 - Sicilian, Alapin (9,325)
- B90 - Sicilian, Najdorf (8,370)
- A07 - King's Indian Attack (7,651)
- A46 - Queen's Pawn Game (7,625)
- A15 - English (7,591)
- B40 - Sicilian (6,811)
- B01 - Scandinavian (6,569)
- A45 - Queen's Pawn Game (6,425)
- D02 - Queen's Pawn Game (6,338)
- B30 - Sicilian (5,792)
- B12 - Caro-Kann Defense (5,638)
- B23 - Sicilian, Closed (5,559)
- B32 - Sicilian (5,490)
- C42 - Petrov Defense (5,488)
- E12 - Queen's Indian (5,478)
- A00 - Uncommon Opening (5,429)
- B33 - Sicilian (5,376)
- E15 - Queen's Indian (5,310)
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What are the most common endings?
| 1.   vs (11,250)
2. vs (10,221)
3. vs (9,964)
4. vs (6,359)
5. vs (6,248)
6. vs (5,198)
7. vs (3,983)
8.  vs  (3,511)
9. vs (3,407)
10. vs (3,161)
11. vs (3,070)
12. vs (3,014)
13. vs (2,963)
14. vs (2,896)
15. vs (2,584)
| 16. vs (2,510)
17. vs (2,400)
18. vs (2,381)
19.  vs (2,164)
20. vs (2,139)
21. vs (1,972)
22. vs (1,881)
23. vs (1,863)
24. vs (1,795)
25. vs (1,695)
26. vs (1,676)
27. vs (1,651)
28. vs (1,622)
29. vs (1,610)
30. vs (1,567)
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Which chessgames.com users have kibitzed the most?
| 1. jessicafischerqueen (35,417)
2. Jim Bartle (32,636)
3. whiteshark (28,661)
4. acirce (27,697)
5. chancho (27,497)
6. WannaBe (26,088)
7. OhioChessFan (25,102)
8. Domdaniel (23,575)
9. percyblakeney (23,197)
10. wordfunph (22,751)
11. HeMateMe (22,522)
12. notyetagm (21,758)
13. Open Defence (20,329)
14. Marmot PFL (18,554)
15. brankat (18,437)
16. Eyal (18,386)
17. Ulhumbrus (17,882)
18. achieve (17,372)
19. Travis Bickle (16,772)
20. frogbert (15,934)
| 21. technical draw (15,638)
22. twinlark (15,614)
23. keypusher (15,021)
24. Shams (14,916)
25. YouRang (14,644)
26. Tabanus (13,868)
27. RookFile (13,541)
28. LIFE Master AJ (13,519)
29. ughaibu (13,423)
30. cormier (13,326)
31. Phony Benoni (13,155)
32. patzer2 (12,720)
33. FSR (12,609)
34. Sneaky (12,582)
35. chessmoron (12,472)
36. hms123 (12,119)
37. timhortons (12,104)
38. al wazir (11,868)
39. Whitehat1963 (11,854)
40. SugarDom (11,800)
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Which pages on chessgames.com have the most kibitzing?
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- Wesley So (144,105)
- Kenneth Rogoff (132,677)
- Kibitzer's Café (127,615)
- Magnus Carlsen (73,097)
- Robert James Fischer (47,158)
- The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 (44,576)
- Vladimir Kramnik (39,911)
- Kramnik-Topalov World Championship Match (2006) (29,034)
- The World vs N Pogonina, 2010 (26,685)
- The World vs A Nickel, 2006 (26,648)
- A Nickel vs The World, 2008 (23,261)
- The World vs Akobian, 2012 (21,220)
- Y Shulman vs The World, 2007 (20,940)
- Hikaru Nakamura (19,719)
- Viswanathan Anand (18,114)
- Garry Kasparov (17,698)
- Veselin Topalov (17,237)
- Odd Lie (16,630)
- M Umansky vs The World, 2009 (12,338)
- World Championship Candidates (2013) (12,181)
- FIDE World Championship Tournament (2007) (11,907)
- Battle of the Brains II, 2008 (11,499)
- Anand-Kramnik World Championship Match (2008) (11,098)
- Eugenio Torre (10,154)
- Anand-Topalov World Chess Championship (2010) (10,138)
- Anand-Carlsen World Championship (2013) (9,791)
- Nigel Short (9,750)
- Raymond Keene (9,475)
- S Williams vs The World, 2013 (9,221)
- Corus (2007) (9,168)
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Which are the most popular games for Guess-the-Move?
| - P Troeger vs Tal, 1960 (given 807 times, par: 35)
- Kasparov vs Ulf Andersson, 1981 (given 471 times, par: 42)
- Morphy vs E Rousseau, 1849 (given 375 times, par: 16)
- Morphy vs J McConnell, 1849 (given 326 times, par: 45)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (given 325 times, par: 32)
- J McConnell vs Morphy, 1850 (given 324 times, par: 18)
- Tarrasch vs Gunsberg, 1890 (given 310 times, par: 5)
- Kasparov vs Beliavsky, 1983 (given 303 times, par: 60)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (given 253 times, par: 40)
- Letelier vs Fischer, 1960 (given 252 times, par: 32)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (given 252 times, par: 37)
- NN vs Greco, 1620 (given 251 times, par: 100)
- Fischer vs J Altusky, 1954 (given 246 times, par: 13)
- Morphy vs A Meek, 1855 (given 223 times, par: 25)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (given 220 times, par: 30)
- Greco vs NN, 1620 (given 210 times, par: 59)
- Philidor vs NN, 1749 (given 208 times, par: 64)
- F A Hoffmann vs A Petrov, 1844 (given 201 times, par: 24)
- Morphy vs J Schulten, 1857 (given 201 times, par: 13)
- Korchnoi vs Spassky, 1948 (given 198 times, par: 9)
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What games are frequently found in our users' Game Collections?
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- D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956 (681)
- Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 (545)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (505)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (497)
- Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (451)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (381)
- R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 (355)
- Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 (324)
- Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 (296)
- Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (278)
- Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 (276)
- S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 (276)
- Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895 (269)
- Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (268)
- Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924 (266)
- Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 (263)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (259)
- Ed Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1912 (257)
- Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 (250)
- Short vs Timman, 1991 (247)
- Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929 (247)
- Tal vs Larsen, 1965 (244)
- Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 (239)
- Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918 (215)
- Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 (213)
- Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 (209)
- Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961 (208)
- McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834 (206)
- Saemisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923 (206)
- Kasparov vs Kramnik, 1994 (201)
- Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 (198)
- Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 (197)
- Tal vs Hjartarson, 1987 (194)
- Fischer vs Myagmarsuren, 1967 (192)
- Nezhmetdinov vs O Chernikov, 1962 (191)
- Carlsen vs S Ernst, 2004 (188)
- Karjakin vs Anand, 2006 (185)
- Kramnik vs Kasparov, 1994 (184)
- Kramnik vs Leko, 2004 (169)
- Morphy vs Le Carpentier, 1849 (166)
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What PGN viewers are favored by registered users? [what is this?]
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- pgn4web (Default) (93.54%)
- Chess Viewer Deluxe (5.14%)
- Chess Viewer Deluxe II (0.66%)
- MyChess (0.31%)
- ChessTutor (0.20%)
- None (text only) (0.07%)
- Sjkbase (0.05%)
- MistyBeach (0.04%)
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