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Tell me some general statistics about the database.

# of games in database: 742,786 Years covered: 1475 to 2015 (541 years) White wins 278,656 games (37.51%) Black wins 205,117 games (27.61%) 259,000 games are drawn (34.87%) Average # of moves per game: 40.29 Average Elo rating of rated players: 2195 # of games with annotation: 2,154 (0.29%) # of games with kibitzing: 117,242 (15.78%) # of kibitzes in total: 3,439,264 # of registered users: 211,264 # of users registered in last 30 days: 870 (0.41%) # of registered users seen in last 90 days: 12,334 (5.84%)

What are the highest Elo ratings achieved in the database?

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.

1. Magnus Carlsen (2882) 2. Garry Kasparov (2851) 3. Fabiano Caruana (2844) 4. Levon Aronian (2830) 5. Viswanathan Anand (2817) 6. Veselin Topalov (2813) 7. Vladimir Kramnik (2811) 8. Alexander Grischuk (2797) 9. Teimour Radjabov (2793) 10. Hikaru Nakamura (2789) 11. Sergey Karjakin (2788) 12. Alexander Morozevich (2788) 13. Vassily Ivanchuk (2787) 14. Robert James Fischer (2785) 15. Anatoly Karpov (2780) 16. Boris Gelfand (2777) 17. Anish Giri (2776) 18. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2775) 19. Peter Svidler (2769) 20. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2768)

21. Leinier Dominguez Perez (2768) 22. Ruslan Ponomariov (2768) 23. Gata Kamsky (2763) 24. Peter Leko (2763) 25. Wesley So (2762) 26. Vugar Gashimov (2761) 27. Michael Adams (2761) 28. Dmitry Jakovenko (2760) 29. Wang Yue (2756) 30. Pavel Eljanov (2755) 31. Alexey Shirov (2755) 32. Wang Hao (2752) 33. Sergei Movsesian (2751) 34. Etienne Bacrot (2749) 35. Nikita Vitiugov (2747) 36. Radoslaw Wojtaszek (2744) 37. Ding Liren (2742) 38. Evgeny Tomashevsky (2740) 39. Evgeny Bareev (2739) 40. Arkadij Naiditsch (2737)

What players have the most games in the database?

1. Viktor Korchnoi (4,446) 2. Anatoly Karpov (3,551) 3. Jan Timman (3,500) 4. Vassily Ivanchuk (3,300) 5. Svetozar Gligoric (3,145) 6. Viswanathan Anand (2,850) 7. Mikhail Tal (2,832) 8. Alexey Shirov (2,774) 9. Lajos Portisch (2,766) 10. Vlastimil Hort (2,653) 11. Vasily Smyslov (2,634) 12. Boris Gelfand (2,583) 13. Vladimir Kramnik (2,572) 14. Michael Adams (2,568) 15. Bent Larsen (2,530) 16. Borislav Ivkov (2,510) 17. Nigel Short (2,495) 18. Loek van Wely (2,477) 19. Anthony Miles (2,446) 20. Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (2,400)

21. Garry Kasparov (2,349) 22. Ulf Andersson (2,306) 23. Boris Spassky (2,279) 24. Ratmir Kholmov (2,276) 25. Peter Svidler (2,265) 26. Alexander Beliavsky (2,255) 27. Efim Geller (2,245) 28. Alexey Dreev (2,232) 29. David Bronstein (2,179) 30. Oleg Romanishin (2,078) 31. Paul Keres (2,051) 32. Artur Yusupov (2,048) 33. Mark Taimanov (2,041) 34. Lubomir Ftacnik (2,037) 35. Peter Leko (2,033) 36. Vlastimil Jansa (1,990) 37. Ljubomir Ljubojevic (1,983) 38. Sergei Movsesian (1,961) 39. Alexander Alekhine (1,956) 40. Lev Polugaevsky (1,949)

Which players most often make winning sacrifices?

	1. Gioachino Greco (58.23%) 2. Emil Joseph Diemer (41.55%) 3. Serafino Dubois (36.23%) 4. Paul Morphy (35.70%) 5. Marc Esserman (29.89%) 6. Ignatz von Kolisch (29.19%) 7. Cecil Valentine De Vere (28.12%) 8. Rybka (Computer) (27.37%) 9. Igor Nikolayev (27.27%) 10. John Cochrane (27.12%) 11. Johannes Zukertort (24.41%) 12. Marco Albano (24.19%) 13. Rudolf Rezso Charousek (24.04%) 14. Nezhmetdinov (23.85%) 15. Adolf Anderssen (23.71%) 16. La Bourdonnais (23.00%) 17. Gustav Richard Neumann (22.73%) 18. Wilhelm Steinitz (21.70%) 19. Tibor Weinberger (21.43%) 20. Von Der Lasa (21.17%)	21. Alexander McDonnell (20.75%) 22. John A Curdo (20.57%) 23. Georges Koltanowski (20.37%) 24. Emory Tate (20.22%) 25. Erik Andrew Kislik (20.14%) 26. Joseph Henry Blackburne (19.59%) 27. K Richter (19.51%) 28. Carlos Torre Repetto (18.25%) 29. Mikael Helin (18.12%) 30. Mikhail Golubev (18.11%) 31. Howard Staunton (17.70%) 32. Ray Robson (17.66%) 33. Siegbert Tarrasch (17.55%) 34. Jan-Krzysztof Duda (17.37%) 35. Harry Nelson Pillsbury (17.26%) 36. Joanna Majdan-Gajewska (17.09%) 37. Gerard Welling (17.07%) 38. Alexander Alekhine (16.82%) 39. Richard Forster (16.79%) 40. Fidel Corrales Jimenez (16.79%)
For an explanation of "winning sacrifice" please see the Sacrifice Explorer FAQ. Only players with at least 50 games in the database are considered. Players with ratings under 2000 are excluded.

Which ECO opening chapters are played most often?

A04 - Reti Opening (11,957) B06 - Robatsch (10,833) B22 - Sicilian, Alapin (9,759) A07 - King's Indian Attack (9,561) B90 - Sicilian, Najdorf (8,969) A46 - Queen's Pawn Game (8,202) A15 - English (8,092) B40 - Sicilian (7,173) B01 - Scandinavian (6,987) A45 - Queen's Pawn Game (6,965) D02 - Queen's Pawn Game (6,849) B30 - Sicilian (6,158) B12 - Caro-Kann Defense (6,092) B23 - Sicilian, Closed (5,866) B32 - Sicilian (5,845) A00 - Uncommon Opening (5,736) C42 - Petrov Defense (5,700) E12 - Queen's Indian (5,690) E15 - Queen's Indian (5,599) B07 - Pirc (5,552)

What are the most common endings?

1. ♖♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙ (11,782) 2. ♖♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙ (10,723) 3. ♖♙♙ vs ♖♙ (10,471) 4. ♖♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙ (6,703) 5. ♖♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙♙ (6,604) 6. ♖♙♙ vs ♖♙♙ (5,458) 7. ♖♙ vs ♖ (4,192) 8. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙♙ (3,660) 9. ♖♙♙♙ vs ♖♙ (3,580) 10. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♗♙♙ (3,318) 11. ♖♙♙ vs ♖ (3,235) 12. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙♙♙ (3,148) 13. ♖♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙ (3,100) 14. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙♙ (3,015) 15. ♖♙ vs ♖♙ (2,748)

16. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♗♙♙♙ (2,637) 17. ♗♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙♙ (2,503) 18. ♗♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙ (2,496) 19. ♕♙♙♙♙ vs ♕♙♙♙ (2,275) 20. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙♙♙ (2,237) 21. ♖♘♙♙♙ vs ♖♗♙♙ (2,062) 22. ♖♙♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙ (1,971) 23. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙ (1,955) 24. ♖♘♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙ (1,882) 25. ♕♙♙♙ vs ♕♙♙ (1,795) 26. ♘♙♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙♙ (1,747) 27. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙♙ (1,738) 28. ♖♗♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙ (1,712) 29. ♘♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙ (1,691) 30. ♖♘♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙♙ (1,652)

Which chessgames.com users have kibitzed the most?

1. Jim Bartle (39,368) 2. jessicafischerqueen (36,750) 3. whiteshark (30,706) 4. chancho (30,243) 5. WannaBe (29,611) 6. OhioChessFan (29,553) 7. HeMateMe (29,145) 8. acirce (27,691) 9. Domdaniel (26,244) 10. wordfunph (24,275) 11. percyblakeney (23,196) 12. notyetagm (22,670) 13. Marmot PFL (20,558) 14. Open Defence (20,367) 15. Travis Bickle (19,878) 16. Ulhumbrus (19,607) 17. Shams (18,636) 18. brankat (18,555) 19. Eyal (18,431) 20. achieve (17,938)

21. cormier (17,202) 22. keypusher (17,100) 23. twinlark (16,930) 24. technical draw (16,653) 25. perfidious (16,574) 26. frogbert (15,959) 27. Tabanus (15,926) 28. YouRang (15,783) 29. FSR (15,578) 30. SugarDom (15,424) 31. RookFile (14,837) 32. Phony Benoni (14,835) 33. LIFE Master AJ (14,797) 34. al wazir (14,507) 35. Abdel Irada (14,226) 36. TheFocus (14,066) 37. ughaibu (13,633) 38. patzer2 (13,460) 39. Sneaky (13,028) 40. chessmoron (12,870)

Which pages on chessgames.com have the most kibitzing?

Kenneth Rogoff (171,520) Wesley So (171,512) Kibitzer's Café (142,392) Magnus Carlsen (76,374) Robert James Fischer (50,836) The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 (44,580) Vladimir Kramnik (39,867) Kramnik - Topalov World Championship Match (2006) (29,040) The World vs N Pogonina, 2010 (26,685) The World vs A Nickel, 2006 (26,646) A Nickel vs The World, 2008 (23,261) The World vs Akobian, 2012 (21,223) Y Shulman vs The World, 2007 (20,940) Hikaru Nakamura (20,741) Viswanathan Anand (18,788) Garry Kasparov (18,354) Odd Lie (17,900) The World vs Naiditsch, 2014 (17,588) Veselin Topalov (17,280) S Williams vs The World, 2013 (14,960) M Umansky vs The World, 2009 (12,339) Eugenio Torre (12,103) World Championship Candidates (2013) (12,088) FIDE World Championship Tournament (2007) (11,915) Battle of the Brains II, 2008 (11,499) Anand - Kramnik World Championship Match (2008) (11,067) Anand - Topalov World Chess Championship (2010) (10,121) Nigel Short (10,115) Anand - Carlsen World Championship (2013) (9,771) Raymond Keene (9,599)

Which are the most popular games for Guess-the-Move?

P Troeger vs Tal, 1960 (given 990 times, par: 35) Kasparov vs Ulf Andersson, 1981 (given 477 times, par: 42) Morphy vs E Rousseau, 1849 (given 415 times, par: 16) J McConnell vs Morphy, 1850 (given 361 times, par: 19) Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (given 354 times, par: 32) Tarrasch vs Gunsberg, 1890 (given 312 times, par: 5) Fischer vs J Altusky, 1954 (given 307 times, par: 12) Kasparov vs Beliavsky, 1983 (given 305 times, par: 60) NN vs Greco, 1620 (given 292 times, par: 99) Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (given 290 times, par: 40) Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (given 273 times, par: 36) Letelier vs Fischer, 1960 (given 270 times, par: 32) Morphy vs A Meek, 1855 (given 247 times, par: 25) Greco vs NN, 1620 (given 241 times, par: 58) Tal vs Lutikov, 1964 (given 237 times, par: 43) Fischer vs Taimanov, 1971 (given 237 times, par: 126) Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (given 234 times, par: 30) Morphy vs J Schulten, 1857 (given 221 times, par: 13) Philidor vs NN, 1749 (given 220 times, par: 64) Korchnoi vs Spassky, 1948 (given 212 times, par: 9) For more information on Guess-the-Move, see the Guess-the-Move Help Page.

What games are frequently found in our users' Game Collections?

D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956 (710) Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 (581) Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (535) Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (522) Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (477) Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (398) R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 (378) Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 (340) Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 (307) Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (296) S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 (292) Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895 (290) Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 (290) Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (279) Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924 (278) Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (276) Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 (275) Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 (269) Ed. Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1912 (269) Short vs Timman, 1991 (267) Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929 (263) Tal vs Larsen, 1965 (263) Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 (259) Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918 (235) Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 (224) McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834 (221) Saemisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923 (221) Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961 (217) Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 (217) Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 (215) Kasparov vs Kramnik, 1994 (210) Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 (209) Fischer vs Myagmarsuren, 1967 (205) Carlsen vs S Ernst, 2004 (204) Tal vs Hjartarson, 1987 (203) Nezhmetdinov vs O Chernikov, 1962 (203) Kramnik vs Kasparov, 1994 (195) Karjakin vs Anand, 2006 (194) Morphy vs Le Carpentier, 1849 (183) Botvinnik vs Portisch, 1968 (178)

What PGN viewers are favored by registered users? [what is this?]

pgn4web (Default) (98.94%) Chess Viewer Deluxe II (0.46%) Chess Viewer Deluxe (0.29%) MyChess (0.11%) None (text only) (0.10%) ChessTutor (0.08%) Sjkbase (0.02%) MistyBeach (0.01%)