ChessGames.com Statistics
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database of chess games
and the people who use it.
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 | # of games in database: 465,680
Years covered: 1475 to 2008 (534 years)
White wins 171,406 games (36.81%)
Black wins 124,230 games (26.68%)
170,033 games are drawn (36.51%)
Average # of moves per game: 39.26
Average Elo rating of rated players: 2231
# of games with annotation: 2,296 (0.49%)
# of games with kibitzing: 57,224 (12.29%)
# of kibitzes in total: 1,345,883
# of registered users: 96,296
# of users registered in last 30 days: 1,355 (1.41%)
# of registered users seen in last 90 days: 13,452 (13.97%)
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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 (4,182)
2. Jan Timman (3,262)
3. Anatoli Karpov (3,235)
4. Svetozar Gligoric (3,127)
5. Mikhail Tal (2,824)
6. Lajos Portisch (2,634)
7. Vasily Smyslov (2,615)
8. Vlastimil Hort (2,530)
9. Bent Larsen (2,510)
10. Borislav Ivkov (2,421)
11. Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (2,397)
12. Anthony Miles (2,301)
13. Ratmir Kholmov (2,267)
14. Efim Geller (2,255)
15. Viswanathan Anand (2,190)
16. Boris Spassky (2,169)
17. David Bronstein (2,166)
18. Garry Kasparov (2,144)
19. Vassily Ivanchuk (2,135)
20. Alexey Shirov (2,126)
| 21. Paul Keres (2,081)
22. Ulf Andersson (2,060)
23. Michael Adams (2,029)
24. Mark Taimanov (1,994)
25. Nigel Short (1,980)
26. Lev Polugaevsky (1,960)
27. Ljubomir Ljubojevic (1,930)
28. Oleg Romanishin (1,919)
29. Loek Van Wely (1,905)
30. Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1,904)
31. Jan Plachetka (1,903)
32. Jan Smejkal (1,898)
33. Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1,890)
34. Vlastimil Jansa (1,887)
35. Alexander Alekhine (1,879)
36. Artur Yusupov (1,876)
37. Vladimir Kramnik (1,850)
38. Milan Matulovic (1,818)
39. Wlodzimierz Schmidt (1,795)
40. Lubomir Ftacnik (1,742)
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Which players most often make winning sacrifices?
Which opening variations are played most often?
| - A04 - Reti Opening (6,724)
- B22 - Sicilian, Alapin (6,461)
- B06 - Robatsch (5,932)
- B90 - Sicilian, Najdorf (5,141)
- A46 - Queen's Pawn Game (5,018)
- A15 - English (4,796)
- B40 - Sicilian (4,717)
- D02 - Queen's Pawn Game (4,247)
- E12 - Queen's Indian (4,114)
- B07 - Pirc (4,005)
- B01 - Scandinavian (3,908)
- B33 - Sicilian (3,905)
- C42 - Petrov Defense (3,829)
- B23 - Sicilian, Closed (3,813)
- A45 - Queen's Pawn Game (3,720)
- E15 - Queen's Indian (3,719)
- A00 - Uncommon Opening (3,622)
- D37 - Queen's Gambit Declined (3,561)
- B30 - Sicilian (3,560)
- E11 - Bogo-Indian Defense (3,402)
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What are the most common endings?
| 1.   vs (7,270)
2. vs (6,637)
3. vs (6,249)
4. vs (3,968)
5. vs (3,937)
6. vs (3,219)
7. vs (2,350)
8.  vs  (2,202)
9. vs (2,189)
10. vs (2,001)
11. vs (1,969)
12. vs (1,915)
13. vs (1,883)
14. vs (1,852)
15. vs (1,568)
| 16. vs (1,562)
17. vs (1,556)
18. vs (1,531)
19.  vs (1,407)
20. vs (1,312)
21. vs (1,250)
22. vs (1,214)
23. vs (1,170)
24. vs (1,125)
25. vs (1,087)
26. vs (1,087)
27. vs (1,087)
28. vs (1,016)
29. vs (1,011)
30. vs (1,010)
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Which chessgames.com users have kibitzed the most?
| 1. acirce (20,765)
2. WannaBe (16,179)
3. percyblakeney (15,653)
4. jessicafischerqueen (14,554)
5. ughaibu (10,957)
6. chancho (10,549)
7. EmperorAtahualpa (10,388)
8. notyetagm (10,320)
9. chessmoron (10,234)
10. RookFile (10,193)
11. Sneaky (10,043)
12. Open Defence (9,872)
13. brankat (9,655)
14. Domdaniel (9,215)
15. aw1988 (9,099)
16. Knight13 (9,077)
17. suenteus po 147 (8,771)
18. ahmadov (7,585)
19. whiteshark (7,567)
20. Whitehat1963 (7,480)
| 21. hitman84 (7,476)
22. square dance (7,435)
23. keypusher (7,364)
24. twinlark (7,346)
25. Eyal (7,305)
26. iron maiden (7,137)
27. Ulhumbrus (6,800)
28. azaris (6,609)
29. patzer2 (6,594)
30. slomarko (6,520)
31. Gypsy (6,488)
32. Karpova (6,362)
33. tpstar (6,355)
34. Benzol (6,349)
35. achieve (6,347)
36. Honza Cervenka (6,335)
37. cu8sfan (6,313)
38. chessgames.com (6,090)
39. virginmind (6,074)
40. euripides (6,053)
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Which pages on chessgames.com have the most kibitzing?
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- Kibitzer's Café (75,190)
- The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 (37,187)
- Kramnik-Topalov World Championship Match (2006) (28,953)
- Vladimir Kramnik (27,984)
- The World vs A Nickel, 2006 (26,620)
- Magnus Carlsen (25,364)
- Robert James Fischer (25,072)
- Y Shulman vs The World, 2007 (20,927)
- Veselin Topalov (15,645)
- Garry Kasparov (12,293)
- FIDE World Championship Tournament (2007) (11,906)
- Viswanathan Anand (9,609)
- Corus (2007) (9,159)
- World Chess Championship (2005) (8,385)
- Corus (2008) (7,646)
- Raymond Keene (7,302)
- Linares-Morelia (2007) (7,172)
- Corus Chess Tournament (2005) (6,286)
- Zsuzsa Polgar (6,105)
- Battle of the Brains, 2007 (5,900)
- Team White vs Team Black, 2006 (5,877)
- Paul Morphy (5,264)
- Odd Lie (5,238)
- World Chess Cup (2007) (5,143)
- Morelia-Linares (2008) (5,061)
- XXII Torneo Ciudad de Linares (2005) (4,900)
- Nigel Short (4,810)
- Beer (4,579)
- Corus Wijk aan Zee (2006) (4,424)
- 37th Chess Olympiad (2006) (4,390)
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Which are the most popular games for Guess-the-Move?
| - Kasparov vs Ulf Andersson, 1981 (given 253 times, par: 42)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (given 131 times, par: 31)
- Kasparov vs Beliavsky, 1983 (given 108 times, par: 59)
- Philidor vs NN, 1749 (given 108 times, par: 62)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (given 101 times, par: 35)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (given 93 times, par: 35)
- Morphy vs J McConnell, 1849 (given 91 times, par: 46)
- F A Hoffmann vs A Petrov, 1844 (given 85 times, par: 23)
- Tal vs Lutikov, 1964 (given 84 times, par: 46)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (given 80 times, par: 28)
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What games are frequently found in our users' Game Collections?
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- D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956 (411)
- Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 (312)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (290)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (277)
- Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (262)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (230)
- Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 (180)
- R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 (179)
- Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 (157)
- Ed Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1912 (152)
- Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 (151)
- Tal vs Larsen, 1965 (148)
- Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929 (147)
- Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 (145)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (142)
- S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 (141)
- Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (138)
- Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895 (137)
- Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924 (135)
- Short vs Timman, 1991 (130)
- Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 (124)
- Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 (120)
- Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (118)
- Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 (113)
- Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918 (112)
- Samisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923 (111)
- Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 (110)
- Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 (110)
- Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 (108)
- Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961 (99)
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What java viewers are favored by registered users?
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- Chess Viewer Deluxe (Default) (89.67%)
- ChessTutor (4.34%)
- None (text only) (1.86%)
- Sjkbase (1.80%)
- MistyBeach (1.52%)
- MyChess (0.81%)
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