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database of chess games and the people who use it.
 Tell me some general statistics about the database.
 | # of games in database: 517,792
Years covered: 1475 to 2009 (535 years)
White wins 191,677 games (37.02%)
Black wins 139,388 games (26.92%)
186,719 games are drawn (36.06%)
Average # of moves per game: 39.48
Average Elo rating of rated players: 2227
# of games with annotation: 1,602 (0.31%)
# of games with kibitzing: 69,116 (13.35%)
# of kibitzes in total: 1,782,896
# of registered users: 117,139
# of users registered in last 30 days: 1,273 (1.09%)
# of registered users seen in last 90 days: 13,071 (11.16%)
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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 (4,271)
2. Anatoli Karpov (3,342)
3. Jan Timman (3,328)
4. Svetozar Gligoric (3,130)
5. Mikhail Tal (2,822)
6. Lajos Portisch (2,664)
7. Vasily Smyslov (2,628)
8. Vlastimil Hort (2,556)
9. Bent Larsen (2,526)
10. Vassily Ivanchuk (2,447)
11. Borislav Ivkov (2,438)
12. Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (2,396)
13. Anthony Miles (2,319)
14. Viswanathan Anand (2,311)
15. Ratmir Kholmov (2,267)
16. Efim Geller (2,261)
17. Alexey Shirov (2,259)
18. Boris Spassky (2,190)
19. David Bronstein (2,183)
20. Garry Kasparov (2,166)
| 21. Ulf Andersson (2,141)
22. Michael Adams (2,116)
23. Nigel Short (2,091)
24. Paul Keres (2,086)
25. Loek Van Wely (2,027)
26. Mark Taimanov (1,995)
27. Vladimir Kramnik (1,965)
28. Lev Polugaevsky (1,965)
29. Oleg Romanishin (1,952)
30. Ljubomir Ljubojevic (1,945)
31. Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1,919)
32. Artur Yusupov (1,912)
33. Vlastimil Jansa (1,907)
34. Boris Gelfand (1,905)
35. Jan Plachetka (1,904)
36. Alexander Alekhine (1,903)
37. Jan Smejkal (1,899)
38. Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1,897)
39. Alexander Beliavsky (1,882)
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 (8,183)
- B22 - Sicilian, Alapin (7,026)
- A07 - King's Indian Attack (6,872)
- B06 - Robatsch (6,865)
- B90 - Sicilian, Najdorf (5,928)
- A46 - Queen's Pawn Game (5,744)
- A15 - English (5,345)
- B40 - Sicilian (5,278)
- A45 - Queen's Pawn Game (4,564)
- B01 - Scandinavian (4,503)
- B07 - Pirc (4,431)
- B33 - Sicilian (4,426)
- D02 - Queen's Pawn Game (4,377)
- E12 - Queen's Indian (4,354)
- B23 - Sicilian, Closed (4,275)
- C42 - Petrov Defense (4,233)
- E15 - Queen's Indian (4,136)
- B30 - Sicilian (4,125)
- D37 - Queen's Gambit Declined (3,916)
- E11 - Bogo-Indian Defense (3,799)
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What are the most common endings?
| 1.   vs (8,189)
2. vs (7,483)
3. vs (7,127)
4. vs (4,461)
5. vs (4,451)
6. vs (3,656)
7. vs (2,695)
8.  vs  (2,505)
9. vs (2,485)
10. vs (2,287)
11. vs (2,221)
12. vs (2,184)
13. vs (2,150)
14. vs (2,097)
15. vs (1,788)
| 16. vs (1,785)
17. vs (1,744)
18. vs (1,727)
19.  vs (1,576)
20. vs (1,489)
21. vs (1,426)
22. vs (1,378)
23. vs (1,359)
24. vs (1,296)
25. vs (1,223)
26. vs (1,209)
27. vs (1,209)
28. vs (1,161)
29. vs (1,149)
30. vs (1,144)
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Which chessgames.com users have kibitzed the most?
| 1. acirce (24,712)
2. jessicafischerqueen (22,324)
3. percyblakeney (19,882)
4. WannaBe (17,470)
5. whiteshark (14,728)
6. notyetagm (14,625)
7. Open Defence (14,160)
8. chancho (14,025)
9. brankat (12,735)
10. Domdaniel (11,782)
11. ughaibu (11,507)
12. RookFile (10,954)
13. chessmoron (10,816)
14. Sneaky (10,788)
15. Eyal (10,518)
16. EmperorAtahualpa (10,364)
17. Jim Bartle (10,153)
18. slomarko (9,797)
19. suenteus po 147 (9,687)
20. achieve (9,671)
| 21. Knight13 (9,585)
22. keypusher (9,431)
23. ahmadov (9,341)
24. aw1988 (9,093)
25. Whitehat1963 (9,051)
26. Tabanus (8,514)
27. square dance (8,507)
28. Ulhumbrus (8,434)
29. YouRang (8,419)
30. twinlark (8,220)
31. virginmind (8,152)
32. hitman84 (7,888)
33. patzer2 (7,738)
34. Karpova (7,600)
35. technical draw (7,292)
36. Gypsy (7,273)
37. iron maiden (7,196)
38. WhiteRook48 (7,168)
39. Benzol (7,148)
40. tpstar (7,104)
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Which pages on chessgames.com have the most kibitzing?
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- Kibitzer's Café (84,425)
- The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 (44,544)
- Magnus Carlsen (39,772)
- Wesley So (39,490)
- Vladimir Kramnik (36,003)
- Robert James Fischer (31,506)
- Kramnik-Topalov World Championship Match (2006) (28,977)
- The World vs A Nickel, 2006 (26,644)
- A Nickel vs The World, 2008 (23,259)
- Y Shulman vs The World, 2007 (20,939)
- Veselin Topalov (16,435)
- Garry Kasparov (13,161)
- Viswanathan Anand (12,524)
- FIDE World Championship Tournament (2007) (11,907)
- Battle of the Brains II, 2008 (11,497)
- Anand-Kramnik World Championship Match (2008) (10,985)
- M Umansky vs The World, 2009 (10,451)
- Corus (2007) (9,161)
- FIDE World Championship Tournament (2005) (8,388)
- Raymond Keene (7,836)
- Corus (2008) (7,653)
- Odd Lie (7,280)
- Linares-Morelia (2007) (7,172)
- Nigel Short (6,453)
- Corus Chess Tournament (2005) (6,286)
- Zsuzsa Polgar (6,201)
- Battle of the Brains, 2007 (5,902)
- Team White vs Team Black, 2006 (5,883)
- Hikaru Nakamura (5,724)
- Paul Morphy (5,545)
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Which are the most popular games for Guess-the-Move?
| - Kasparov vs Ulf Andersson, 1981 (given 269 times, par: 42)
- Kasparov vs Beliavsky, 1983 (given 266 times, par: 59)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (given 182 times, par: 32)
- Tarrasch vs Gunsberg, 1890 (given 171 times, par: 5)
- Morphy vs E Rousseau, 1849 (given 167 times, par: 17)
- Morphy vs J McConnell, 1849 (given 154 times, par: 46)
- Philidor vs NN, 1749 (given 150 times, par: 63)
- J McConnell vs Morphy, 1850 (given 145 times, par: 18)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (given 139 times, par: 35)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (given 139 times, par: 37)
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What games are frequently found in our users' Game Collections?
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- D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956 (478)
- Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 (390)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (348)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (340)
- Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (311)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (271)
- Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 (221)
- R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 (216)
- Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 (215)
- Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 (180)
- Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 (180)
- Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929 (179)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (176)
- Ed Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1912 (176)
- S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 (175)
- Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895 (174)
- Short vs Timman, 1991 (172)
- Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924 (169)
- Tal vs Larsen, 1965 (167)
- Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (165)
- Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (164)
- Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 (155)
- Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 (155)
- Samisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923 (148)
- Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918 (134)
- Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 (133)
- Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 (133)
- Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961 (133)
- Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 (133)
- Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 (129)
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What java viewers are favored by registered users?
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- Chess Viewer Deluxe (Default) (88.38%)
- ChessTutor (5.66%)
- None (text only) (1.69%)
- Sjkbase (1.54%)
- MyChess (1.38%)
- MistyBeach (1.36%)
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