ChessGames.com Statistics
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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: 355,812
Years covered: 1475 to 2005 (531 years)
White wins 130,751 games (36.75%)
Black wins 94,345 games (26.52%)
130,708 games are drawn (36.74%)
Average # of moves per game: 38.98
Average Elo rating of rated players: 2255
# of games with annotation: 1,692 (0.48%)
# of games with kibitzing: 29,288 (8.23%)
# of kibitzes in total: 434,236
# of registered users: 47,325
# of users registered in last 30 days: 1,508 (3.19%)
# of registered users seen in last 30 days: 5,602 (11.84%)
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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
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What players have the most games in the database?
| 1. Viktor Korchnoi (3,955)
2. Svetozar Gligoric (3,109)
3. Jan Timman (3,109)
4. Anatoli Karpov (3,104)
5. Mikhail Tal (2,822)
6. Vasily Smyslov (2,599)
7. Lajos Portisch (2,538)
8. Bent Larsen (2,500)
9. Vlastimil Hort (2,475)
10. Borislav Ivkov (2,406)
11. Ratmir Kholmov (2,261)
12. Efim Geller (2,245)
13. Anthony Miles (2,242)
14. Boris Spassky (2,143)
15. Garry Kasparov (2,111)
16. Paul Keres (2,091)
17. Mark Taimanov (1,962)
18. Lev Polugaevsky (1,956)
19. Ulf Andersson (1,934)
20. Ljubomir Ljubojevic (1,885)
| 21. Alexander Alekhine (1,878)
22. Jan Smejkal (1,871)
23. Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1,868)
24. Milan Matulovic (1,816)
25. Michael Adams (1,805)
26. David Bronstein (1,797)
27. Oleg Romanishin (1,796)
28. Viswanathan Anand (1,791)
29. Wlodzimierz Schmidt (1,790)
30. Vlastimil Jansa (1,785)
31. Nigel Short (1,782)
32. Alexey Shirov (1,740)
33. Vladimir A Savon (1,682)
34. Laszlo Szabo (1,672)
35. Boris Gulko (1,667)
36. Yuri Balashov (1,661)
37. Vladimir Kramnik (1,642)
38. Vassily Ivanchuk (1,639)
39. Ljubomir Ftacnik (1,615)
40. Evgeni Vasiukov (1,599)
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Which players most often make winning sacrifices?
Which opening variations are played most often?
| - B22 - Sicilian, Alapin (5,178)
- A04 - Reti Opening (4,580)
- B06 - Robatsch (4,431)
- A00 - Uncommon Opening (3,928)
- A46 - Queen's Pawn Game (3,722)
- A15 - English (3,638)
- B33 - Sicilian (3,628)
- B40 - Sicilian (3,383)
- E12 - Queen's Indian (3,323)
- B90 - Sicilian, Najdorf (3,308)
- B07 - Pirc (3,177)
- D02 - Queen's Pawn Game (2,975)
- B01 - Scandinavian (2,894)
- C42 - Petrov Defense (2,878)
- B23 - Sicilian, Closed (2,755)
- D37 - Queen's Gambit Declined (2,744)
- E15 - Queen's Indian (2,645)
- A40 - Queen's Pawn Game (2,617)
- A45 - Queen's Pawn Game (2,571)
- E11 - Bogo-Indian Defense (2,482)
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What are the most common endings?
| 1.   vs (5,563)
2. vs (5,066)
3. vs (4,764)
4. vs (3,059)
5. vs (3,018)
6. vs (2,458)
7. vs (1,730)
8.  vs  (1,679)
9. vs (1,646)
10. vs (1,511)
11. vs (1,504)
12. vs (1,447)
13. vs (1,403)
14. vs (1,383)
15. vs (1,201)
| 16. vs (1,196)
17. vs (1,146)
18. vs (1,140)
19.  vs (1,074)
20. vs (1,003)
21. vs (952)
22. vs (946)
23. vs (900)
24. vs (847)
25. vs (840)
26. vs (821)
27. vs (819)
28. vs (767)
29. vs (760)
30. vs (756)
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What chessgames.com users have kibitzed the most?
| 1. acirce (12,218)
2. ughaibu (7,368)
3. aw1988 (6,871)
4. iron maiden (5,858)
5. Sneaky (5,575)
6. drukenknight (4,633)
7. Knight13 (4,364)
8. cu8sfan (4,232)
9. patzer2 (4,085)
10. Benzol (3,928)
11. tpstar (3,766)
12. Gypsy (3,629)
13. Honza Cervenka (3,571)
14. WMD (3,549)
15. Benjamin Lau (3,433)
16. yoozum (3,410)
17. chessgames.com (3,284)
18. percyblakeney (3,261)
19. azaris (3,203)
20. refutor (3,159)
| 21. square dance (2,999)
22. Whitehat1963 (2,972)
23. offramp (2,911)
24. catfriend (2,839)
25. csmath (2,661)
26. WannaBe (2,607)
27. hintza (2,607)
28. PinkPanther (2,607)
29. AdrianP (2,523)
30. chancho (2,515)
31. ray keene (2,431)
32. RookFile (2,339)
33. suenteus po 147 (2,300)
34. Hesam7 (2,257)
35. euripides (2,230)
36. ruylopez900 (2,207)
37. alexandrovm (2,192)
38. tamar (2,145)
39. kevin86 (2,111)
40. Calli (2,080)
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What pages on chessgames.com have the most kibitzing?
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- Kibitzer's Café (42,003)
- Robert James Fischer (12,444)
- Vladimir Kramnik (11,490)
- World Chess Championship (2005) (8,376)
- Garry Kasparov (7,597)
- Corus Chess Tournament (2005) (6,283)
- Magnus Carlsen (4,984)
- XXII Torneo Ciudad de Linares (2005) (4,903)
- Raymond Keene (4,720)
- Zsuzsa Polgar (4,091)
- MTel Masters (2005) (3,308)
- Paul Morphy (3,166)
- Veselin Topalov (3,091)
- Viswanathan Anand (3,061)
- Beer (2,925)
- Topalov vs Anand, 2005 (2,602)
- Russian Championships (2004) (2,564)
- FIDE World Championship (2004) (2,556)
- Dortmund Sparkassen (2005) (2,440)
- Topalov vs Kasimdzhanov, 2005 (1,915)
- Alexander Morozevich (1,801)
- Kramnik-Leko World Championship Match (2004) (1,787)
- Judit Polgar vs Topalov, 2005 (1,735)
- Adams vs Hydra, 2005 (1,723)
- Morozevich vs Topalov, 2005 (1,717)
- Topalov vs Morozevich, 2005 (1,717)
- Hikaru Nakamura (1,673)
- Jose Raul Capablanca (1,619)
- Anatoli Karpov (1,562)
- Judit Polgar vs Anand, 2005 (1,535)
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What games are frequently found in our users' Game Collections?
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- D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956 (210)
- Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 (170)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (137)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (131)
- Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (124)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (108)
- R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 (101)
- Tal vs Larsen, 1965 (92)
- Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 (88)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (80)
- S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 (79)
- Edward Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1911 (78)
- Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (78)
- Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929 (74)
- Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 (71)
- Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 (70)
- Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895 (70)
- Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 (68)
- Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 (66)
- Samisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923 (63)
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What java viewers are favored by registered users?
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- MyChess (Default) (88.72%)
- ChessTutor (4.53%)
- None (text only) (2.31%)
- Sjkbase (2.25%)
- MistyBeach (2.17%)
- (0.01%)
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