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 | # of games in database: 934,201
Years covered: 1475 to 2019 (545 years)
All time controls (934,201 games)
White wins 352,780 games (37.76%)
Black wins 262,551 games (28.10%)
318,845 games are drawn (34.13%)
Only classical time controls (843,563 games)
White wins 315,904 games (37.45%)
Black wins 233,953 games (27.73%)
293,687 games are drawn (34.82%)
Only non-classical time controls (90,638 games)
White wins 36,876 games (40.68%)
Black wins 28,598 games (31.55%)
25,158 games are drawn (27.76%)
Average # of moves per game: 41.01
Average Elo rating of rated players: 2190
# of games with annotation: 2,513 (0.27%)
# of games with kibitzing: 148,262 (15.87%)
# of kibitzes in total: 4,355,841
# of registered users: 239,506
# of users registered in last 30 days: 2,543 (1.06%)
# of registered users seen in last 90 days: 9,918 (4.14%)
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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 (4,424)
2. Vassily Ivanchuk (3,773)
3. Viswanathan Anand (3,670)
4. Anatoly Karpov (3,610)
5. Jan Timman (3,554)
6. Svetozar Gligoric (3,167)
7. Alexey Shirov (3,154)
8. Magnus Carlsen (3,099)
9. Boris Gelfand (3,058)
10. Vladimir Kramnik (3,040)
11. Michael Adams (2,923)
12. Peter Svidler (2,849)
13. Levon Aronian (2,846)
14. Mikhail Tal (2,830)
15. Nigel Short (2,799)
16. Lajos Portisch (2,771)
17. Loek van Wely (2,744)
18. Alexander Grischuk (2,693)
19. Aleksey Dreev (2,681)
20. Vlastimil Hort (2,660)
| 21. Vasily Smyslov (2,627)
22. Bent Larsen (2,538)
23. Borislav Ivkov (2,537)
24. Sergey Karjakin (2,517)
25. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2,510)
26. Hikaru Nakamura (2,496)
27. Alexander Beliavsky (2,450)
28. Anthony Miles (2,434)
29. Peter Leko (2,427)
30. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2,412)
31. Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (2,399)
32. Garry Kasparov (2,385)
33. Sergei Movsesian (2,370)
34. Ulf Andersson (2,357)
35. Veselin Topalov (2,288)
36. Ratmir Kholmov (2,282)
37. Boris Spassky (2,274)
38. Efim Geller (2,228)
39. David Bronstein (2,186)
40. Oleg Romanishin (2,124)
| Which players most often make winning sacrifices?
Which ECO opening chapters are played most often?
| - A07 - King's Indian Attack (20,441)
- A04 - Reti Opening (14,816)
- D02 - Queen's Pawn Game (13,196)
- B06 - Robatsch (11,940)
- B90 - Sicilian, Najdorf (11,447)
- B22 - Sicilian, Alapin (10,952)
- A15 - English (10,521)
- A46 - Queen's Pawn Game (10,226)
- A45 - Queen's Pawn Game (10,033)
- B01 - Scandinavian (8,811)
- B12 - Caro-Kann Defense (8,544)
- B32 - Sicilian (8,368)
- B07 - Pirc (8,067)
- B30 - Sicilian (8,000)
- C45 - Scotch Game (7,698)
- A00 - Uncommon Opening (7,689)
- B40 - Sicilian (7,354)
- C42 - Petrov Defense (7,097)
- A13 - English (6,990)
- D37 - Queen's Gambit Declined (6,901)
| What are the most common endings?
| 1. ♖♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙ (14,831)
2. ♖♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙ (13,436)
3. ♖♙♙ vs ♖♙ (13,262)
4. ♖♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙ (8,492)
5. ♖♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙♙ (8,288)
6. ♖♙♙ vs ♖♙♙ (6,979)
7. ♖♙ vs ♖ (5,569)
8. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙♙ (4,592)
9. ♖♙♙♙ vs ♖♙ (4,560)
10. ♖♙♙ vs ♖ (4,246)
11. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♗♙♙ (4,214)
12. ♖♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙ (3,931)
13. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙♙♙ (3,909)
14. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙♙ (3,820)
15. ♖♙ vs ♖♙ (3,581)
| 16. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♗♙♙♙ (3,335)
17. ♗♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙ (3,204)
18. ♗♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙♙ (3,159)
19. ♕♙♙♙♙ vs ♕♙♙♙ (2,871)
20. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙♙♙ (2,824)
21. ♖♘♙♙♙ vs ♖♗♙♙ (2,570)
22. ♖♙♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙ (2,477)
23. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙ (2,443)
24. ♖♘♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙ (2,395)
25. ♕♙♙♙ vs ♕♙♙ (2,260)
26. ♘♙♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙♙ (2,166)
27. ♖♗♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙ (2,161)
28. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙♙ (2,131)
29. ♘♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙ (2,105)
30. ♖♘♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙♙ (2,061)
| Which chessgames.com users have kibitzed the most?
| 1. HeMateMe (64,914)
2. Jim Bartle (49,967)
3. WannaBe (44,186)
4. jessicafischerqueen (41,483)
5. OhioChessFan (41,008)
6. saffuna (39,913)
7. whiteshark (37,343)
8. chancho (36,079)
9. cormier (34,054)
10. Domdaniel (30,821)
11. harrylime (30,458)
12. Travis Bickle (30,384)
13. perfidious (29,446)
14. Bobsterman3000 (28,511)
15. wordfunph (27,857)
16. acirce (27,704)
17. TheFocus (27,685)
18. Marmot PFL (25,902)
19. al wazir (25,658)
20. diceman (25,086)
| 21. keypusher (24,855)
22. notyetagm (23,400)
23. Big Pawn (23,336)
24. percyblakeney (23,192)
25. Ulhumbrus (23,115)
26. Colonel Mortimer (22,485)
27. Abdel Irada (22,028)
28. zanzibar (21,503)
29. Shams (21,013)
30. Open Defence (20,784)
31. SugarDom (20,548)
32. Tabanus (19,902)
33. technical draw (19,490)
34. FSR (19,055)
35. Eyal (19,015)
36. brankat (18,795)
37. offramp (18,615)
38. thegoodanarchist (18,355)
39. twinlark (18,231)
40. WinKing (18,165)
| Which pages on chessgames.com have the most kibitzing?
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- Kenneth S Rogoff (392,613)
- Kibitzer's Café (253,189)
- Wesley So (210,792)
- Magnus Carlsen (81,426)
- Robert James Fischer (55,286)
- The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 (44,597)
- Jeremy Lim (44,260)
- Vladimir Kramnik (39,989)
- Kramnik - Topalov World Championship Match (2006) (29,030)
- The World vs N Pogonina, 2010 (26,712)
- The World vs A Nickel, 2006 (26,659)
- A Nickel vs The World, 2008 (23,261)
- Hikaru Nakamura (21,429)
- The World vs Akobian, 2012 (21,219)
- Y Shulman vs The World, 2007 (20,940)
- Biographer Bistro (19,407)
- Odd Lie (19,199)
- Viswanathan Anand (18,999)
- Garry Kasparov (18,646)
- The World vs Naiditsch, 2014 (17,661)
- Veselin Topalov (17,487)
- S Williams vs The World, 2013 (14,939)
- Eugenio Torre (14,578)
- M Umansky vs The World, 2009 (12,340)
- World Championship Candidates (2013) (12,086)
- World Championship Tournament (2007) (11,917)
- Battle of the Brains II, 2008 (11,499)
- Anand - Kramnik World Championship Match (2008) (11,072)
- Nigel Short (10,395)
- Anand - Topalov World Championship Match (2010) (10,101)
- Raymond Keene (9,840)
- Anand - Carlsen World Championship Match (2013) (9,771)
- Corus Group A (2007) (9,159)
- Louis Stumpers (8,941)
- FIDE World Championship Tournament (2005) (8,411)
- Akobian vs The World, 2011 (8,262)
- Edmund Beronio (7,996)
- Corus Group A (2008) (7,653)
- Morelia-Linares (2007) (7,174)
- Paul Morphy (6,879)
| Which are the most popular games for Guess-the-Move?
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- P Troeger vs Tal, 1960 (given 1346 times, par: 34)
- Morphy vs E Rousseau, 1849 (given 530 times, par: 16)
- Kasparov vs Ulf Andersson, 1981 (given 492 times, par: 42)
- Fischer vs J Altusky, 1954 (given 471 times, par: 13)
- J McConnell vs Morphy, 1850 (given 468 times, par: 19)
- Letelier vs Fischer, 1960 (given 439 times, par: 32)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (given 430 times, par: 33)
- NN vs Greco, 1620 (given 398 times, par: 98)
- Judit Polgar vs Mamedyarov, 2002 (given 378 times, par: 11)
- Kasparov vs Beliavsky, 1983 (given 360 times, par: 60)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (given 353 times, par: 36)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (given 348 times, par: 42)
- Greco vs NN, 1620 (given 324 times, par: 56)
- Tal vs Lutikov, 1964 (given 320 times, par: 43)
- Tarrasch vs Gunsberg, 1890 (given 317 times, par: 5)
- Greco vs NN, 1620 (given 301 times, par: 22)
- Morphy vs A Meek, 1855 (given 300 times, par: 25)
- Morphy vs J Schulten, 1857 (given 284 times, par: 12)
- Morphy vs E Morphy, 1856 (given 279 times, par: 36)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (given 278 times, par: 30)
For more information on Guess-the-Move, see the Guess-the-Move Help Page. | What games are frequently found in our users' Game Collections?
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- D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956 (932)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (761)
- Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 (743)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (716)
- Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (672)
- Robert E Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 (582)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (570)
- Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895 (503)
- Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924 (498)
- Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 (496)
- Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 (476)
- Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 (449)
- Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 (448)
- Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 (439)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (429)
- Short vs Timman, 1991 (427)
- Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 (422)
- Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (413)
- Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (413)
- Ed. Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1912 (399)
- S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 (395)
- Tal vs Larsen, 1965 (386)
- Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 (383)
- Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929 (374)
- Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 (372)
- Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918 (370)
- Saemisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923 (369)
- McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834 (355)
- Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 (351)
- Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961 (347)
- Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 (335)
- Nimzowitsch vs Tarrasch, 1914 (329)
- Botvinnik vs Portisch, 1968 (327)
- O Bernstein vs Capablanca, 1914 (320)
- Fischer vs Myagmarsuren, 1967 (315)
- Tal vs Hjartarson, 1987 (315)
- Kasparov vs Kramnik, 1994 (305)
- Lasker vs Capablanca, 1914 (305)
- Nezhmetdinov vs O Chernikov, 1962 (305)
- Steinitz vs Chigorin, 1892 (296)
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