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Tell me some general statistics about the database.

# of games in database: 946,559 Years covered: 1475 to 2020 (546 years) All time controls (946,559 games) White wins 357,653 games (37.78%) Black wins 266,249 games (28.13%) 322,631 games are drawn (34.08%) Only classical time controls (846,772 games) White wins 316,913 games (37.43%) Black wins 234,649 games (27.71%) 295,190 games are drawn (34.86%) Only non-classical time controls (99,787 games) White wins 40,740 games (40.83%) Black wins 31,600 games (31.67%) 27,441 games are drawn (27.50%) Average # of moves per game: 41.07 Average Elo rating of rated players: 2190 # of games with annotation: 2,523 (0.27%) # of games with kibitzing: 150,837 (15.94%) # of kibitzes in total: 4,398,849 # of registered users: 253,813 # of users registered in last 30 days: 4,188 (1.65%) # of registered users seen in last 90 days: 19,705 (7.76%)

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. Wesley So (2822) 6. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2819) 7. Vladimir Kramnik (2817) 8. Viswanathan Anand (2817) 9. Veselin Topalov (2816) 10. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2814) 11. Hikaru Nakamura (2814) 12. Ding Liren (2801) 13. Alexander Grischuk (2797) 14. Anish Giri (2793) 15. Teimour Radjabov (2793) 16. Sergey Karjakin (2788) 17. Alexander Morozevich (2788) 18. Vassily Ivanchuk (2787) 19. Robert James Fischer (2785) 20. Anatoly Karpov (2780)

21. Boris Gelfand (2777) 22. Ian Nepomniachtchi (2773) 23. Peter Svidler (2769) 24. Leinier Dominguez Perez (2768) 25. Ruslan Ponomariov (2768) 26. Pentala Harikrishna (2766) 27. Pavel Eljanov (2765) 28. Gata Kamsky (2763) 29. Peter Leko (2763) 30. Yu Yangyi (2762) 31. Vugar Gashimov (2761) 32. Michael Adams (2761) 33. Dmitry Jakovenko (2760) 34. Evgeny Tomashevsky (2758) 35. Li Chao (2757) 36. Wang Yue (2756) 37. Alexey Shirov (2755) 38. Wei Yi (2753) 39. Richard Rapport (2752) 40. Wang Hao (2752)

What players have the most games in the database?

1. Viktor Korchnoi (4,451) 2. Vassily Ivanchuk (3,795) 3. Viswanathan Anand (3,729) 4. Anatoly Karpov (3,614) 5. Jan Timman (3,554) 6. Magnus Carlsen (3,195) 7. Alexey Shirov (3,182) 8. Svetozar Gligoric (3,168) 9. Boris Gelfand (3,110) 10. Vladimir Kramnik (3,061) 11. Michael Adams (2,953) 12. Levon Aronian (2,925) 13. Peter Svidler (2,886) 14. Mikhail Tal (2,832) 15. Nigel Short (2,800) 16. Lajos Portisch (2,777) 17. Loek van Wely (2,744) 18. Alexander Grischuk (2,736) 19. Aleksey Dreev (2,720) 20. Vlastimil Hort (2,676)

21. Vasily Smyslov (2,643) 22. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2,592) 23. Sergey Karjakin (2,574) 24. Hikaru Nakamura (2,561) 25. Bent Larsen (2,539) 26. Borislav Ivkov (2,539) 27. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2,462) 28. Alexander Beliavsky (2,461) 29. Anthony Miles (2,434) 30. Peter Leko (2,428) 31. Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (2,400) 32. Garry Kasparov (2,385) 33. Sergei Movsesian (2,373) 34. Ulf Andersson (2,357) 35. Veselin Topalov (2,302) 36. Ratmir Kholmov (2,282) 37. Boris Spassky (2,277) 38. Efim Geller (2,229) 39. David Bronstein (2,195) 40. Oleg Romanishin (2,128)

Which players most often make winning sacrifices?

	1. Gioachino Greco (58.23%) 2. Emil Joseph Diemer (41.83%) 3. Paul Morphy (35.64%) 4. Igor Nikolayev (31.50%) 5. Ignatz von Kolisch (30.36%) 6. Cecil Valentine De Vere (29.13%) 7. John Cochrane (27.02%) 8. Olga Vasiliev (24.60%) 9. Marco Albano (24.19%) 10. Rudolf Rezso Charousek (24.04%) 11. Adolf Anderssen (23.80%) 12. Johannes Zukertort (23.74%) 13. Nezhmetdinov (23.46%) 14. Marc Esserman (22.99%) 15. Gustav Richard Neumann (22.73%) 16. Tibor Weinberger (21.48%) 17. Wilhelm Steinitz (21.44%) 18. Emory Tate (20.32%) 19. Georges Koltanowski (20.20%) 20. K Richter (20.15%)	21. Joseph Henry Blackburne (19.77%) 22. M V Golubev (19.39%) 23. John A Curdo (19.31%) 24. Siegbert Tarrasch (17.90%) 25. Howard Staunton (17.87%) 26. Adam Tukhaev (17.65%) 27. Harry Nelson Pillsbury (17.52%) 28. Bator Sambuev (17.47%) 29. Timur Gareyev (17.20%) 30. Stanislav Bogdanovich (17.17%) 31. Oldrich Duras (17.00%) 32. Eric Schiller (16.53%) 33. Gerard Welling (16.47%) 34. Danny Kopec (16.40%) 35. Maxime Lagarde (16.31%) 36. Mikhail Chigorin (16.25%) 37. Alexander Alekhine (16.17%) 38. Ray Robson (16.14%) 39. Harold James Plaskett (16.05%) 40. Viktor Kupreichik (15.99%)
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?

A07 - King's Indian Attack (20,683) A04 - Reti Opening (15,037) D02 - Queen's Pawn Game (13,472) B06 - Robatsch (12,067) B90 - Sicilian, Najdorf (11,688) B22 - Sicilian, Alapin (11,050) A15 - English (10,692) A46 - Queen's Pawn Game (10,359) A45 - Queen's Pawn Game (10,201) B01 - Scandinavian (8,915) B12 - Caro-Kann Defense (8,709) B32 - Sicilian (8,439) B07 - Pirc (8,135) B30 - Sicilian (8,112) C45 - Scotch Game (7,804) A00 - Uncommon Opening (7,771) B40 - Sicilian (7,425) C42 - Petrov Defense (7,196) A13 - English (7,134) D37 - Queen's Gambit Declined (7,037)

What are the most common endings?

1. ♖♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙ (14,830) 2. ♖♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙ (13,436) 3. ♖♙♙ vs ♖♙ (13,261) 4. ♖♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙ (8,491) 5. ♖♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙♙ (8,287) 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 ♗♙♙♙ (3,819) 15. ♖♙ vs ♖♙ (3,581)

16. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♗♙♙♙ (3,335) 17. ♗♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙ (3,204) 18. ♗♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙♙ (3,159) 19. ♕♙♙♙♙ vs ♕♙♙♙ (2,870) 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 (66,587) 2. Jim Bartle (49,966) 3. WannaBe (44,450) 4. saffuna (42,445) 5. jessicafischerqueen (41,953) 6. OhioChessFan (41,718) 7. whiteshark (37,346) 8. chancho (36,464) 9. cormier (34,226) 10. harrylime (31,736) 11. Domdaniel (30,821) 12. Travis Bickle (30,384) 13. perfidious (30,356) 14. Bobsterman3000 (30,112) 15. wordfunph (28,247) 16. acirce (27,704) 17. TheFocus (27,695) 18. diceman (26,621) 19. al wazir (26,525) 20. Marmot PFL (25,902)

21. keypusher (25,521) 22. Big Pawn (23,719) 23. Colonel Mortimer (23,622) 24. notyetagm (23,417) 25. Ulhumbrus (23,245) 26. percyblakeney (23,192) 27. Abdel Irada (22,027) 28. zanzibar (21,502) 29. Shams (21,018) 30. SugarDom (20,919) 31. Open Defence (20,784) 32. Tabanus (20,118) 33. technical draw (19,534) 34. FSR (19,239) 35. thegoodanarchist (19,156) 36. Eyal (19,038) 37. offramp (18,804) 38. brankat (18,793) 39. WinKing (18,506) 40. twinlark (18,231)

Which pages on chessgames.com have the most kibitzing?

Kenneth S Rogoff (405,847) Kibitzer's Café (257,212) Wesley So (211,327) Magnus Carlsen (81,788) Robert James Fischer (55,573) Jeremy Lim (46,165) The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 (44,597) 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 (26,660) 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 (19,775) 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 (14,596) 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 (9,859) Anand - Carlsen World Championship Match (2013) (9,771) Corus Group A (2007) (9,159) Louis Stumpers (8,999) FIDE World Championship Tournament (2005) (8,411) Akobian vs The World, 2011 (8,262) Edmund Beronio (8,021) Corus Group A (2008) (7,653) Morelia-Linares (2007) (7,174) Paul Morphy (6,914)

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

P Troeger vs Tal, 1960 (given 1371 times, par: 34) Morphy vs E Rousseau, 1849 (given 537 times, par: 16) Kasparov vs Ulf Andersson, 1981 (given 492 times, par: 42) Fischer vs J Altusky, 1954 (given 478 times, par: 13) J McConnell vs Morphy, 1850 (given 474 times, par: 19) Letelier vs Fischer, 1960 (given 441 times, par: 32) Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (given 434 times, par: 33) NN vs Greco, 1620 (given 405 times, par: 98) Judit Polgar vs Mamedyarov, 2002 (given 380 times, par: 10) Kasparov vs Beliavsky, 1983 (given 360 times, par: 60) Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (given 356 times, par: 36) Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (given 353 times, par: 42) Greco vs NN, 1620 (given 332 times, par: 56) Tal vs Lutikov, 1964 (given 321 times, par: 43) Tarrasch vs Gunsberg, 1890 (given 317 times, par: 5) Greco vs NN, 1620 (given 306 times, par: 22) Morphy vs A Meek, 1855 (given 303 times, par: 25) Morphy vs J Schulten, 1857 (given 289 times, par: 12) Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (given 281 times, par: 30) Morphy vs E Morphy, 1856 (given 279 times, par: 36) 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 (965) Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (787) Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 (764) Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (739) Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (694) Robert E Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 (607) Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (589) Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895 (540) Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924 (525) Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 (515) Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 (496) Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 (465) Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 (462) Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (451) Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 (450) Short vs Timman, 1991 (446) Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 (445) Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (432) Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (426) Ed. Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1912 (414) S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 (412) Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 (409) Tal vs Larsen, 1965 (399) Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918 (393) Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 (391) Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929 (388) Saemisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923 (388) McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834 (374) Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 (366) Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961 (360) Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 (349) Nimzowitsch vs Tarrasch, 1914 (345) Botvinnik vs Portisch, 1968 (342) O Bernstein vs Capablanca, 1914 (339) Tal vs Hjartarson, 1987 (333) Fischer vs Myagmarsuren, 1967 (325) Lasker vs Capablanca, 1914 (324) Nezhmetdinov vs O Chernikov, 1962 (318) Steinitz vs Chigorin, 1892 (315) Kasparov vs Kramnik, 1994 (314)

Also see our Notable Games for games broke down by year, decade, and century.