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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: 534,288
Years covered: 1475 to 2009 (535 years)
White wins 198,241 games (37.10%)
Black wins 144,185 games (26.99%)
191,856 games are drawn (35.91%)
Average # of moves per game: 39.51
Average Elo rating of rated players: 2226
# of games with annotation: 1,731 (0.32%)
# of games with kibitzing: 72,980 (13.66%)
# of kibitzes in total: 1,890,956
# of registered users: 122,941
# of users registered in last 30 days: 1,424 (1.16%)
# of registered users seen in last 90 days: 13,835 (11.25%)
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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 (4,294)
2. Anatoli Karpov (3,405)
3. Jan Timman (3,356)
4. Svetozar Gligoric (3,134)
5. Mikhail Tal (2,822)
6. Lajos Portisch (2,681)
7. Vasily Smyslov (2,637)
8. Vlastimil Hort (2,562)
9. Bent Larsen (2,527)
10. Vassily Ivanchuk (2,487)
11. Borislav Ivkov (2,441)
12. Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (2,398)
13. Viswanathan Anand (2,356)
14. Garry Kasparov (2,334)
15. Anthony Miles (2,322)
16. Alexey Shirov (2,302)
17. Ratmir Kholmov (2,268)
18. Efim Geller (2,262)
19. Boris Spassky (2,194)
20. David Bronstein (2,183)
| 21. Michael Adams (2,154)
22. Ulf Andersson (2,150)
23. Nigel Short (2,117)
24. Paul Keres (2,085)
25. Loek Van Wely (2,059)
26. Mark Taimanov (1,997)
27. Vladimir Kramnik (1,986)
28. Oleg Romanishin (1,967)
29. Lev Polugaevsky (1,965)
30. Ljubomir Ljubojevic (1,959)
31. Alexander Beliavsky (1,948)
32. Boris Gelfand (1,937)
33. Artur Yusupov (1,923)
34. Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1,920)
35. Alexander Alekhine (1,908)
36. Vlastimil Jansa (1,907)
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 (8,345)
- A07 - King's Indian Attack (7,329)
- B22 - Sicilian, Alapin (7,210)
- B06 - Robatsch (7,096)
- B90 - Sicilian, Najdorf (6,143)
- A46 - Queen's Pawn Game (5,941)
- B40 - Sicilian (5,383)
- A15 - English (5,218)
- A45 - Queen's Pawn Game (4,746)
- B01 - Scandinavian (4,708)
- B07 - Pirc (4,575)
- D02 - Queen's Pawn Game (4,564)
- B33 - Sicilian (4,533)
- E12 - Queen's Indian (4,445)
- C42 - Petrov Defense (4,442)
- B23 - Sicilian, Closed (4,387)
- B30 - Sicilian (4,342)
- E15 - Queen's Indian (4,264)
- D37 - Queen's Gambit Declined (4,032)
- B32 - Sicilian (3,924)
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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 (25,084)
2. jessicafischerqueen (24,217)
3. percyblakeney (21,420)
4. WannaBe (17,931)
5. whiteshark (17,135)
6. Open Defence (15,625)
7. notyetagm (14,953)
8. chancho (14,681)
9. brankat (12,802)
10. Domdaniel (12,247)
11. Jim Bartle (11,990)
12. ughaibu (11,593)
13. chessmoron (11,006)
14. RookFile (10,967)
15. Eyal (10,945)
16. Sneaky (10,904)
17. achieve (10,562)
18. Knight13 (10,409)
19. slomarko (10,368)
20. EmperorAtahualpa (10,366)
| 21. keypusher (10,012)
22. suenteus po 147 (9,966)
23. ahmadov (9,442)
24. twinlark (9,430)
25. Whitehat1963 (9,393)
26. aw1988 (9,088)
27. YouRang (9,042)
28. Tabanus (8,961)
29. Ulhumbrus (8,792)
30. WhiteRook48 (8,780)
31. square dance (8,518)
32. virginmind (8,433)
33. timhortons (8,336)
34. technical draw (8,198)
35. patzer2 (7,926)
36. Karpova (7,664)
37. Gypsy (7,466)
38. OhioChessFan (7,449)
39. hitman84 (7,432)
40. tpstar (7,412)
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Which pages on chessgames.com have the most kibitzing?
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- Kibitzer's Café (86,568)
- Wesley So (49,357)
- Magnus Carlsen (45,033)
- The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 (44,559)
- Vladimir Kramnik (36,649)
- Robert James Fischer (32,370)
- Kramnik-Topalov World Championship Match (2006) (28,982)
- The World vs A Nickel, 2006 (26,644)
- A Nickel vs The World, 2008 (23,258)
- Y Shulman vs The World, 2007 (20,939)
- Veselin Topalov (16,630)
- Garry Kasparov (13,494)
- Viswanathan Anand (13,010)
- M Umansky vs The World, 2009 (12,325)
- FIDE World Championship Tournament (2007) (11,906)
- Battle of the Brains II, 2008 (11,499)
- Anand-Kramnik World Championship Match (2008) (11,051)
- Kenneth Rogoff (9,871)
- Corus (2007) (9,165)
- FIDE World Championship Tournament (2005) (8,391)
- Odd Lie (8,097)
- Raymond Keene (8,049)
- Corus (2008) (7,653)
- Hikaru Nakamura (7,649)
- Linares-Morelia (2007) (7,172)
- Nigel Short (7,118)
- Zsuzsa Polgar (6,293)
- 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 276 times, par: 60)
- Kasparov vs Ulf Andersson, 1981 (given 270 times, par: 42)
- P Troeger vs Tal, 1960 (given 231 times, par: 36)
- Tarrasch vs Gunsberg, 1890 (given 197 times, par: 5)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (given 196 times, par: 32)
- Morphy vs E Rousseau, 1849 (given 196 times, par: 17)
- Morphy vs J McConnell, 1849 (given 172 times, par: 45)
- J McConnell vs Morphy, 1850 (given 160 times, par: 18)
- Philidor vs NN, 1749 (given 156 times, par: 63)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (given 151 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 (491)
- Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 (401)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (365)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (353)
- Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (322)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (279)
- R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 (229)
- Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 (229)
- Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 (220)
- Ed Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1912 (185)
- Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929 (184)
- Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 (184)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (183)
- Short vs Timman, 1991 (182)
- Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 (182)
- Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895 (182)
- S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 (179)
- Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924 (177)
- Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (170)
- Tal vs Larsen, 1965 (169)
- Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (169)
- Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 (166)
- Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 (160)
- Samisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923 (152)
- Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 (142)
- Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961 (141)
- Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 (139)
- Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 (138)
- Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 (137)
- Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918 (136)
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What java viewers are favored by registered users?
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- Chess Viewer Deluxe (Default) (87.96%)
- ChessTutor (6.12%)
- None (text only) (1.67%)
- Sjkbase (1.47%)
- MyChess (1.45%)
- MistyBeach (1.33%)
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