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# of games in database: 1,558,039
Years covered: 0 to 2023 (2024 years)
All time controls (1,558,039 games)
White wins 583,859 games (37.47%)
Black wins 438,016 games (28.11%)
536,118 games are drawn (34.41%)
Only classical time controls (1,407,427 games)
White wins 522,751 games (37.14%)
Black wins 390,443 games (27.74%)
494,200 games are drawn (35.11%)
Only non-classical time controls (150,612 games)
White wins 61,108 games (40.57%)
Black wins 47,573 games (31.59%)
41,918 games are drawn (27.83%)
Average # of moves per game: 40.67
Average Elo rating of rated players: 2175
# of games with annotation: 3,136 (0.20%)
# of games with kibitzing: 175,108 (11.24%)
# of kibitzes in total: 4,789,556
# of registered users: 342,423
# of users registered in last 30 days: 403 (0.12%)
# of registered users seen in last 90 days: 5,395 (1.58%)
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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
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What players have the most games in the database?
| 1. Magnus Carlsen (4,785)
2. Viktor Korchnoi (4,671)
3. Vasyl Ivanchuk (4,040)
4. Viswanathan Anand (3,996)
5. Ivan Farago (3,954)
6. Levon Aronian (3,896)
7. Anatoly Karpov (3,683)
8. Jan Timman (3,647)
9. Hikaru Nakamura (3,637)
10. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (3,455)
11. Boris Gelfand (3,451)
12. Alexey Shirov (3,428)
13. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (3,350)
14. Peter Svidler (3,347)
15. Alexander Grischuk (3,284)
16. Svetozar Gligoric (3,262)
17. Vladimir Kramnik (3,246)
18. Michael Adams (3,182)
19. Pia Cramling (3,175)
20. Vlastimil Hort (3,124)
| 21. Oleg Romanishin (3,119)
22. Aleksey Dreev (3,024)
23. Nigel Short (3,011)
24. Loek van Wely (2,962)
25. Lajos Portisch (2,949)
26. Fabiano Caruana (2,930)
27. Mikhail Tal (2,927)
28. Borislav Ivkov (2,876)
29. Sergey Karjakin (2,856)
30. Alexander G Beliavsky (2,832)
31. Vasily Smyslov (2,793)
32. Anish Giri (2,756)
33. Ian Nepomniachtchi (2,743)
34. Tony Miles (2,714)
35. Wesley So (2,637)
36. Wolfgang Uhlmann (2,635)
37. Bojan Kurajica (2,622)
38. Vlastimil Jansa (2,604)
39. Ulf Andersson (2,571)
40. Bent Larsen (2,570)
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Which players most often make winning sacrifices?
Which ECO opening chapters are played most often?
| - A07 - King's Indian Attack (36,379)
- A04 - Reti Opening (26,088)
- D02 - Queen's Pawn Game (23,123)
- B06 - Robatsch (21,008)
- B22 - Sicilian, Alapin (19,789)
- B90 - Sicilian, Najdorf (18,400)
- A46 - Queen's Pawn Game (17,697)
- A15 - English (17,589)
- A45 - Queen's Pawn Game (17,360)
- B01 - Scandinavian (14,941)
- B32 - Sicilian (14,231)
- B12 - Caro-Kann Defense (14,066)
- B07 - Pirc (13,972)
- A00 - Uncommon Opening (13,612)
- B30 - Sicilian (13,469)
- B40 - Sicilian (12,724)
- C45 - Scotch Game (12,205)
- A13 - English (12,047)
- D37 - Queen's Gambit Declined (11,428)
- E11 - Bogo-Indian Defense (11,418)
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What are the most common endings?
| 1. ♖♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙ (14,822)
2. ♖♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙ (13,428)
3. ♖♙♙ vs ♖♙ (13,253)
4. ♖♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙ (8,485)
5. ♖♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙♙ (8,285)
6. ♖♙♙ vs ♖♙♙ (6,978)
7. ♖♙ vs ♖ (5,569)
8. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙♙ (4,588)
9. ♖♙♙♙ vs ♖♙ (4,559)
10. ♖♙♙ vs ♖ (4,246)
11. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♗♙♙ (4,212)
12. ♖♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙ (3,930)
13. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙♙♙ (3,907)
14. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙♙ (3,818)
15. ♖♙ vs ♖♙ (3,580)
| 16. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♗♙♙♙ (3,335)
17. ♗♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙ (3,203)
18. ♗♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙♙ (3,157)
19. ♕♙♙♙♙ vs ♕♙♙♙ (2,870)
20. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙♙♙ (2,821)
21. ♖♘♙♙♙ vs ♖♗♙♙ (2,568)
22. ♖♙♙♙♙♙ vs ♖♙♙♙ (2,477)
23. ♖♗♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙ (2,442)
24. ♖♘♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙ (2,395)
25. ♕♙♙♙ vs ♕♙♙ (2,258)
26. ♘♙♙♙♙ vs ♗♙♙♙ (2,163)
27. ♖♗♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙ (2,160)
28. ♗♙♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙♙ (2,131)
29. ♘♙♙♙ vs ♘♙♙ (2,105)
30. ♖♘♙♙♙ vs ♖♘♙♙♙ (2,061)
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Which chessgames.com users have kibitzed the most?
| 1. HeMateMe (82,464)
2. saffuna (64,030)
3. Jim Bartle (49,855)
4. perfidious (47,790)
5. WannaBe (47,699)
6. harrylime (47,620)
7. OhioChessFan (47,009)
8. jessicafischerqueen (46,693)
9. chancho (43,731)
10. cormier (40,801)
11. whiteshark (38,569)
12. diceman (38,093)
13. al wazir (33,927)
14. Colonel Mortimer (31,479)
15. Domdaniel (30,843)
16. Travis Bickle (30,383)
17. Bobsterman3000 (30,348)
18. keypusher (29,601)
19. wordfunph (28,676)
20. acirce (27,867)
| 21. TheFocus (27,367)
22. Big Pawn (26,866)
23. Marmot PFL (26,109)
24. FSR (24,581)
25. Ulhumbrus (24,390)
26. notyetagm (23,450)
27. percyblakeney (23,407)
28. thegoodanarchist (22,259)
29. Tabanus (22,129)
30. MissScarlett (22,127)
31. Abdel Irada (22,022)
32. technical draw (21,803)
33. zanzibar (21,485)
34. offramp (21,390)
35. SugarDom (21,119)
36. Open Defence (21,059)
37. Shams (21,011)
38. Eyal (19,106)
39. brankat (18,789)
40. WinKing (18,752)
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Which pages on chessgames.com have the most kibitzing?
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- 0 (479,878)
- Kibitzer's Café (307,194)
- Wesley So (212,328)
- Magnus Carlsen (83,356)
- Jeremy Lim (62,607)
- Robert James Fischer (56,532)
- The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 (44,597)
- Vladimir Kramnik (39,989)
- Kenneth Rogoff (35,286)
- Kramnik - Topalov World Championship Match (2006) (29,030)
- The World vs N Pogonina, 2010 (26,713)
- The World vs A Nickel, 2006 (26,661)
- Biographer Bistro (26,463)
- A Nickel vs The World, 2008 (23,261)
- Hikaru Nakamura (21,429)
- The World vs V Akobian, 2012 (21,222)
- Shulman vs The World, 2007 (20,941)
- Odd Lie (19,199)
- Viswanathan Anand (18,999)
- Garry Kasparov (18,646)
- The World vs Naiditsch, 2014 (17,666)
- Veselin Topalov (17,487)
- S Williams vs The World, 2013 (14,940)
- Eugenio Torre (14,611)
- M Umansky vs The World, 2009 (12,340)
- World Championship Candidates (2013) (12,088)
- World Championship Tournament (2007) (11,917)
- Battle of the Brains II, 2008 (11,501)
- Anand - Kramnik World Championship Match (2008) (11,072)
- Nigel Short (10,395)
- Anand - Topalov World Championship Match (2010) (10,101)
- Raymond Keene (10,012)
- Anand - Carlsen World Championship Match (2013) (9,773)
- Louis Stumpers (9,194)
- Corus Group A (2007) (9,159)
- FIDE World Championship Tournament (2005) (8,412)
- World Championship Candidates (2011) (8,277)
- V Akobian vs The World, 2011 (8,262)
- Edmund Beronio (8,036)
- World Championship Candidates (2007) (7,778)
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Which are the most popular games for Guess-the-Move?
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- P Troeger vs Tal, 1960 (given 1516 times, par: 34)
- Morphy vs E Rousseau, 1849 (given 580 times, par: 16)
- Fischer vs J Altusky, 1954 (given 531 times, par: 13)
- Kasparov vs Andersson, 1981 (given 524 times, par: 44)
- J McConnell vs Morphy, 1850 (given 508 times, par: 19)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (given 468 times, par: 33)
- Letelier vs Fischer, 1960 (given 455 times, par: 32)
- NN vs Greco, 1620 (given 420 times, par: 98)
- Polgar vs Mamedyarov, 2002 (given 390 times, par: 11)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (given 369 times, par: 41)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (given 367 times, par: 36)
- Kasparov vs Beliavsky, 1983 (given 363 times, par: 60)
- Greco vs NN, 1620 (given 355 times, par: 22)
- Greco vs NN, 1620 (given 345 times, par: 56)
- Tal vs Lutikov, 1964 (given 338 times, par: 43)
- Tarrasch vs Gunsberg, 1890 (given 328 times, par: 5)
- Morphy vs A Meek, 1855 (given 324 times, par: 25)
- Morphy vs J Schulten, 1857 (given 304 times, par: 13)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (given 297 times, par: 30)
- Morphy vs E Morphy, 1856 (given 293 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 (1147)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (1028)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (947)
- Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 (889)
- Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (883)
- R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 (795)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (753)
- Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924 (746)
- Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895 (736)
- Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 (650)
- Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 (626)
- Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 (615)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (601)
- Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 (601)
- Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 (600)
- Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 (592)
- Short vs Timman, 1991 (563)
- Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 (555)
- Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (553)
- Saemisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923 (537)
- Polugaevsky vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (529)
- Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 (516)
- Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918 (513)
- Ed. Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1912 (512)
- Tal vs Larsen, 1965 (510)
- S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 (497)
- Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 (487)
- Nimzowitsch vs Tarrasch, 1914 (482)
- Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929 (480)
- McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834 (473)
- Lasker vs Capablanca, 1914 (469)
- Botvinnik vs Portisch, 1968 (462)
- Steinitz vs Chigorin, 1892 (455)
- O Bernstein vs Capablanca, 1914 (449)
- Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961 (449)
- Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 (447)
- Lasker vs Capablanca, 1921 (446)
- Reti vs Bogoljubov, 1924 (419)
- Tal vs Hjartarson, 1987 (418)
- E Z Adams vs Torre, 1920 (415)
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