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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: 542,611
Years covered: 1475 to 2010 (536 years)
White wins 201,337 games (37.11%)
Black wins 146,351 games (26.97%)
194,917 games are drawn (35.92%)
Average # of moves per game: 39.55
Average Elo rating of rated players: 2226
# of games with annotation: 1,744 (0.32%)
# of games with kibitzing: 75,461 (13.91%)
# of kibitzes in total: 1,994,483
# of registered users: 128,664
# of users registered in last 30 days: 1,655 (1.29%)
# of registered users seen in last 90 days: 15,095 (11.73%)
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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
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What players have the most games in the database?
| 1. Viktor Korchnoi (4,326)
2. Anatoli Karpov (3,455)
3. Jan Timman (3,392)
4. Svetozar Gligoric (3,134)
5. Mikhail Tal (2,822)
6. Lajos Portisch (2,683)
7. Vasily Smyslov (2,642)
8. Vlastimil Hort (2,584)
9. Vassily Ivanchuk (2,573)
10. Bent Larsen (2,526)
11. Borislav Ivkov (2,442)
12. Viswanathan Anand (2,419)
13. Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (2,398)
14. Alexey Shirov (2,350)
15. Garry Kasparov (2,340)
16. Anthony Miles (2,323)
17. Ratmir Kholmov (2,268)
18. Efim Geller (2,263)
19. Boris Spassky (2,209)
20. Michael Adams (2,187)
| 21. David Bronstein (2,185)
22. Ulf Andersson (2,168)
23. Nigel Short (2,149)
24. Loek Van Wely (2,091)
25. Paul Keres (2,085)
26. Vladimir Kramnik (2,055)
27. Boris Gelfand (2,037)
28. Alexander Beliavsky (2,035)
29. Mark Taimanov (1,997)
30. Oleg Romanishin (1,981)
31. Ljubomir Ljubojevic (1,970)
32. Lev Polugaevsky (1,969)
33. Artur Yusupov (1,953)
34. Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1,927)
35. Vlastimil Jansa (1,915)
36. Alexander Alekhine (1,910)
37. Jan Plachetka (1,904)
38. Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1,901)
39. Jan Smejkal (1,899)
40. Varlam Vepkhvishvili (1,860)
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Which players most often make winning sacrifices?
Which opening variations are played most often?
| - A04 - Reti Opening (8,419)
- A07 - King's Indian Attack (7,577)
- B22 - Sicilian, Alapin (7,295)
- B06 - Robatsch (7,285)
- B90 - Sicilian, Najdorf (6,275)
- A46 - Queen's Pawn Game (6,024)
- B40 - Sicilian (5,446)
- A15 - English (5,325)
- A45 - Queen's Pawn Game (4,822)
- B01 - Scandinavian (4,821)
- B07 - Pirc (4,672)
- D02 - Queen's Pawn Game (4,645)
- B33 - Sicilian (4,585)
- C42 - Petrov Defense (4,518)
- E12 - Queen's Indian (4,500)
- B23 - Sicilian, Closed (4,441)
- B30 - Sicilian (4,409)
- E15 - Queen's Indian (4,345)
- D37 - Queen's Gambit Declined (4,132)
- E11 - Bogo-Indian Defense (3,994)
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What are the most common endings?
| 1.   vs (8,342)
2. vs (7,638)
3. vs (7,264)
4. vs (4,548)
5. vs (4,546)
6. vs (3,748)
7. vs (2,765)
8.  vs  (2,553)
9. vs (2,538)
10. vs (2,325)
11. vs (2,267)
12. vs (2,223)
13. vs (2,199)
14. vs (2,140)
15. vs (1,829)
| 16. vs (1,829)
17. vs (1,773)
18. vs (1,767)
19.  vs (1,607)
20. vs (1,521)
21. vs (1,449)
22. vs (1,399)
23. vs (1,388)
24. vs (1,324)
25. vs (1,245)
26. vs (1,235)
27. vs (1,229)
28. vs (1,178)
29. vs (1,176)
30. vs (1,170)
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Which chessgames.com users have kibitzed the most?
| 1. acirce (25,465)
2. jessicafischerqueen (25,238)
3. percyblakeney (21,758)
4. WannaBe (18,241)
5. whiteshark (17,836)
6. Open Defence (16,076)
7. chancho (16,073)
8. notyetagm (15,717)
9. Jim Bartle (13,767)
10. Domdaniel (13,323)
11. brankat (12,859)
12. Eyal (12,271)
13. ughaibu (11,783)
14. chessmoron (11,163)
15. achieve (11,153)
16. Sneaky (11,082)
17. RookFile (10,967)
18. slomarko (10,816)
19. keypusher (10,613)
20. Knight13 (10,597)
| 21. EmperorAtahualpa (10,317)
22. suenteus po 147 (10,087)
23. Ulhumbrus (9,589)
24. Whitehat1963 (9,530)
25. Tabanus (9,507)
26. ahmadov (9,499)
27. twinlark (9,445)
28. YouRang (9,408)
29. timhortons (9,334)
30. WhiteRook48 (9,218)
31. aw1988 (9,088)
32. technical draw (8,962)
33. virginmind (8,689)
34. zanshin (8,677)
35. square dance (8,532)
36. OhioChessFan (8,267)
37. patzer2 (8,172)
38. Karpova (7,833)
39. tpstar (7,685)
40. Gypsy (7,603)
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Which pages on chessgames.com have the most kibitzing?
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- Kibitzer's Café (90,542)
- Wesley So (65,491)
- Magnus Carlsen (50,807)
- The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 (44,560)
- Vladimir Kramnik (37,214)
- Robert James Fischer (32,724)
- Kramnik-Topalov World Championship Match (2006) (29,029)
- The World vs A Nickel, 2006 (26,644)
- A Nickel vs The World, 2008 (23,258)
- Y Shulman vs The World, 2007 (20,940)
- Veselin Topalov (16,700)
- Kenneth Rogoff (15,512)
- Garry Kasparov (13,570)
- Viswanathan Anand (13,539)
- M Umansky vs The World, 2009 (12,328)
- FIDE World Championship Tournament (2007) (11,906)
- Battle of the Brains II, 2008 (11,499)
- Anand-Kramnik World Championship Match (2008) (11,052)
- Hikaru Nakamura (10,082)
- Corus (2007) (9,165)
- Odd Lie (8,616)
- FIDE World Championship Tournament (2005) (8,391)
- Raymond Keene (8,236)
- Corus (2008) (7,653)
- Nigel Short (7,581)
- Linares-Morelia (2007) (7,172)
- Zsuzsa Polgar (6,312)
- Corus Chess Tournament (2005) (6,286)
- Battle of the Brains, 2007 (5,902)
- Team White vs Team Black, 2006 (5,887)
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Which are the most popular games for Guess-the-Move?
| - Kasparov vs Beliavsky, 1983 (given 277 times, par: 60)
- P Troeger vs Tal, 1960 (given 275 times, par: 35)
- Kasparov vs Ulf Andersson, 1981 (given 273 times, par: 42)
- Tarrasch vs Gunsberg, 1890 (given 216 times, par: 5)
- Morphy vs E Rousseau, 1849 (given 210 times, par: 17)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (given 207 times, par: 32)
- Morphy vs J McConnell, 1849 (given 182 times, par: 45)
- J McConnell vs Morphy, 1850 (given 175 times, par: 18)
- Philidor vs NN, 1749 (given 165 times, par: 64)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (given 160 times, par: 36)
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What games are frequently found in our users' Game Collections?
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- D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956 (502)
- Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 (406)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (378)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (363)
- Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (332)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (287)
- R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 (237)
- Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 (236)
- Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 (228)
- Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895 (193)
- Ed Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1912 (192)
- Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 (192)
- Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929 (189)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (189)
- Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 (188)
- S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 (187)
- Short vs Timman, 1991 (185)
- Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924 (178)
- Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (178)
- Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (178)
- Tal vs Larsen, 1965 (175)
- Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 (171)
- Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 (165)
- Samisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923 (154)
- Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 (148)
- Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961 (147)
- Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 (145)
- Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 (142)
- Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918 (142)
- Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 (140)
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What java viewers are favored by registered users?
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- Chess Viewer Deluxe (Default) (87.53%)
- ChessTutor (6.64%)
- None (text only) (1.63%)
- MyChess (1.51%)
- Sjkbase (1.42%)
- MistyBeach (1.28%)
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