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: 682,418
Years covered: 1475 to 2013 (539 years)
White wins 254,856 games (37.35%)
Black wins 186,994 games (27.40%)
240,557 games are drawn (35.25%)
Average # of moves per game: 40.03
Average Elo rating of rated players: 2211
# of games with annotation: 2,069 (0.30%)
# of games with kibitzing: 103,362 (15.15%)
# of kibitzes in total: 2,966,028
# of registered users: 189,822
# of users registered in last 30 days: 812 (0.43%)
# of registered users seen in last 90 days: 12,221 (6.44%)
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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 (4,464)
2. Anatoly Karpov (3,525)
3. Jan Timman (3,465)
4. Svetozar Gligoric (3,144)
5. Vassily Ivanchuk (3,102)
6. Mikhail Tal (2,806)
7. Lajos Portisch (2,752)
8. Alexey Shirov (2,686)
9. Viswanathan Anand (2,674)
10. Vlastimil Hort (2,660)
11. Vasily Smyslov (2,638)
12. Bent Larsen (2,529)
13. Borislav Ivkov (2,462)
14. Michael Adams (2,448)
15. Anthony Miles (2,437)
16. Boris Gelfand (2,423)
17. Nigel Short (2,402)
18. Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (2,401)
19. Vladimir Kramnik (2,355)
20. Garry Kasparov (2,348)
| 21. Loek Van Wely (2,344)
22. Boris Spassky (2,290)
23. Ratmir Kholmov (2,278)
24. Ulf Andersson (2,268)
25. Efim Geller (2,254)
26. Alexander Beliavsky (2,228)
27. David Bronstein (2,182)
28. Alexey Dreev (2,072)
29. Oleg Romanishin (2,068)
30. Paul Keres (2,067)
31. Mark Taimanov (2,037)
32. Artur Yusupov (2,035)
33. Peter Svidler (2,027)
34. Lubomir Ftacnik (1,997)
35. Ljubomir Ljubojevic (1,984)
36. Vlastimil Jansa (1,978)
37. Lev Polugaevsky (1,963)
38. Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1,939)
39. Alexander Alekhine (1,935)
40. Jan Plachetka (1,932)
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Which players most often make winning sacrifices?
Which ECO opening chapters are played most often?
| - A07 - King's Indian Attack (11,686)
- A04 - Reti Opening (9,975)
- B06 - Robatsch (9,973)
- B22 - Sicilian, Alapin (9,174)
- B90 - Sicilian, Najdorf (8,140)
- A46 - Queen's Pawn Game (7,407)
- A15 - English (7,351)
- B40 - Sicilian (6,669)
- B01 - Scandinavian (6,368)
- A45 - Queen's Pawn Game (6,199)
- D02 - Queen's Pawn Game (6,145)
- B30 - Sicilian (5,562)
- B23 - Sicilian, Closed (5,494)
- B12 - Caro-Kann Defense (5,417)
- E12 - Queen's Indian (5,381)
- C42 - Petrov Defense (5,380)
- B33 - Sicilian (5,325)
- B32 - Sicilian (5,251)
- E15 - Queen's Indian (5,196)
- D37 - Queen's Gambit Declined (5,140)
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What are the most common endings?
| 1.   vs (10,444)
2. vs (9,483)
3. vs (9,216)
4. vs (5,818)
5. vs (5,751)
6. vs (4,767)
7. vs (3,614)
8.  vs  (3,257)
9. vs (3,142)
10. vs (2,947)
11. vs (2,801)
12. vs (2,793)
13. vs (2,764)
14. vs (2,671)
15. vs (2,372)
| 16. vs (2,312)
17. vs (2,229)
18. vs (2,211)
19.  vs (2,008)
20. vs (1,933)
21. vs (1,836)
22. vs (1,740)
23. vs (1,729)
24. vs (1,665)
25. vs (1,573)
26. vs (1,549)
27. vs (1,537)
28. vs (1,491)
29. vs (1,478)
30. vs (1,464)
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Which chessgames.com users have kibitzed the most?
| 1. jessicafischerqueen (34,525)
2. Jim Bartle (30,057)
3. acirce (27,696)
4. whiteshark (27,244)
5. chancho (26,322)
6. WannaBe (25,373)
7. percyblakeney (23,201)
8. OhioChessFan (22,573)
9. Domdaniel (22,312)
10. wordfunph (22,130)
11. Open Defence (20,271)
12. notyetagm (20,017)
13. HeMateMe (19,445)
14. Eyal (18,043)
15. brankat (17,900)
16. Marmot PFL (17,338)
17. Ulhumbrus (16,923)
18. achieve (16,859)
19. frogbert (15,927)
20. technical draw (15,051)
| 21. Travis Bickle (14,950)
22. twinlark (14,513)
23. keypusher (14,308)
24. YouRang (14,183)
25. ughaibu (13,292)
26. Tabanus (13,125)
27. RookFile (13,024)
28. Shams (12,888)
29. LIFE Master AJ (12,577)
30. patzer2 (12,549)
31. Sneaky (12,374)
32. chessmoron (12,335)
33. Phony Benoni (12,200)
34. timhortons (12,104)
35. Whitehat1963 (11,715)
36. hms123 (11,687)
37. slomarko (11,687)
38. cormier (11,513)
39. Knight13 (11,500)
40. SugarDom (11,218)
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Which pages on chessgames.com have the most kibitzing?
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- Wesley So (135,410)
- Kibitzer's Café (122,771)
- Kenneth Rogoff (110,993)
- Magnus Carlsen (71,368)
- Robert James Fischer (45,232)
- The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 (44,576)
- Vladimir Kramnik (39,626)
- Kramnik-Topalov World Championship Match (2006) (29,031)
- The World vs N Pogonina, 2010 (26,685)
- The World vs A Nickel, 2006 (26,647)
- A Nickel vs The World, 2008 (23,261)
- The World vs Akobian, 2012 (21,218)
- Y Shulman vs The World, 2007 (20,940)
- Hikaru Nakamura (19,321)
- Viswanathan Anand (17,792)
- Garry Kasparov (17,421)
- Veselin Topalov (17,193)
- Odd Lie (15,807)
- M Umansky vs The World, 2009 (12,338)
- World Championship Candidates (2013) (12,172)
- FIDE World Championship Tournament (2007) (11,908)
- Battle of the Brains II, 2008 (11,499)
- Anand-Kramnik World Championship Match (2008) (11,101)
- Anand-Topalov World Chess Championship (2010) (10,138)
- Eugenio Torre (9,737)
- Nigel Short (9,522)
- Raymond Keene (9,399)
- Corus (2007) (9,167)
- FIDE World Championship Tournament (2005) (8,403)
- Akobian vs The World, 2011 (8,265)
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Which are the most popular games for Guess-the-Move?
| - P Troeger vs Tal, 1960 (given 730 times, par: 35)
- Kasparov vs Ulf Andersson, 1981 (given 468 times, par: 42)
- Morphy vs E Rousseau, 1849 (given 355 times, par: 17)
- Morphy vs J McConnell, 1849 (given 307 times, par: 45)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (given 305 times, par: 32)
- Tarrasch vs Gunsberg, 1890 (given 304 times, par: 5)
- J McConnell vs Morphy, 1850 (given 303 times, par: 18)
- Kasparov vs Beliavsky, 1983 (given 301 times, par: 60)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (given 234 times, par: 36)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (given 234 times, par: 39)
- NN vs Greco, 1620 (given 230 times, par: 100)
- Fischer vs J Altusky, 1954 (given 215 times, par: 12)
- Morphy vs A Meek, 1855 (given 205 times, par: 25)
- Letelier vs Fischer, 1960 (given 204 times, par: 33)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (given 203 times, par: 29)
- Philidor vs NN, 1749 (given 201 times, par: 64)
- Greco vs NN, 1620 (given 195 times, par: 59)
- Morphy vs J Schulten, 1857 (given 192 times, par: 12)
- Korchnoi vs Spassky, 1948 (given 188 times, par: 9)
- F A Hoffmann vs A Petrov, 1844 (given 187 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 (669)
- Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 (535)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (493)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (486)
- Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (443)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (372)
- R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 (350)
- Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 (310)
- Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 (290)
- Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 (274)
- S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 (267)
- Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (264)
- Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895 (264)
- Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (260)
- Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 (258)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (255)
- Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924 (255)
- Ed Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1912 (252)
- Short vs Timman, 1991 (244)
- Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929 (244)
- Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 (238)
- Tal vs Larsen, 1965 (238)
- Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 (234)
- Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 (209)
- Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 (208)
- Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918 (205)
- Saemisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923 (203)
- Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961 (202)
- Kasparov vs Kramnik, 1994 (199)
- McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834 (199)
- Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 (195)
- Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 (192)
- Tal vs Hjartarson, 1987 (191)
- Fischer vs Myagmarsuren, 1967 (185)
- Carlsen vs S Ernst, 2004 (184)
- Kramnik vs Kasparov, 1994 (180)
- Karjakin vs Anand, 2006 (177)
- Nezhmetdinov vs O Chernikov, 1962 (171)
- Kramnik vs Leko, 2004 (166)
- Botvinnik vs Portisch, 1968 (162)
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What PGN viewers are favored by registered users? [what is this?]
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- Chess Viewer Deluxe (77.34%)
- ChessTutor (13.65%)
- pgn4web (Default) (3.53%)
- MyChess (1.63%)
- None (text only) (1.22%)
- Sjkbase (0.98%)
- MistyBeach (0.94%)
- Chess Viewer Deluxe II (0.71%)
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