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: 441,854
Years covered: 1475 to 2007 (533 years)
White wins 162,518 games (36.78%)
Black wins 117,702 games (26.64%)
161,622 games are drawn (36.58%)
Average # of moves per game: 39.17
Average Elo rating of rated players: 2232
# of games with annotation: 2,123 (0.48%)
# of games with kibitzing: 48,816 (11.05%)
# of kibitzes in total: 1,076,144
# of registered users: 81,874
# of users registered in last 30 days: 1,555 (1.90%)
# of registered users seen in last 90 days: 12,941 (15.81%)
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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
for official information. |
What players have the most games in the database?
| 1. Viktor Korchnoi (4,127)
2. Jan Timman (3,220)
3. Anatoli Karpov (3,173)
4. Svetozar Gligoric (3,119)
5. Mikhail Tal (2,818)
6. Vasily Smyslov (2,598)
7. Lajos Portisch (2,587)
8. Vlastimil Hort (2,512)
9. Bent Larsen (2,505)
10. Borislav Ivkov (2,424)
11. Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (2,397)
12. Anthony Miles (2,301)
13. Ratmir Kholmov (2,267)
14. Efim Geller (2,247)
15. Boris Spassky (2,161)
16. David Bronstein (2,149)
17. Garry Kasparov (2,137)
18. Paul Keres (2,080)
19. Viswanathan Anand (2,046)
20. Ulf Andersson (2,035)
| 21. Alexey Shirov (1,996)
22. Mark Taimanov (1,982)
23. Vassily Ivanchuk (1,971)
24. Lev Polugaevsky (1,960)
25. Nigel Short (1,934)
26. Michael Adams (1,912)
27. Ljubomir Ljubojevic (1,912)
28. Jan Plachetka (1,902)
29. Jan Smejkal (1,898)
30. Oleg Romanishin (1,896)
31. Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1,890)
32. Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1,883)
33. Alexander Alekhine (1,878)
34. Vlastimil Jansa (1,878)
35. Artur Yusupov (1,852)
36. Milan Matulovic (1,818)
37. Loek Van Wely (1,809)
38. Wlodzimierz Schmidt (1,795)
39. Vladimir Kramnik (1,749)
40. Lubomir Ftacnik (1,740)
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Which players most often make winning sacrifices?
Which opening variations are played most often?
| - B22 - Sicilian, Alapin (6,665)
- A04 - Reti Opening (5,780)
- B06 - Robatsch (5,696)
- B33 - Sicilian (4,799)
- A00 - Uncommon Opening (4,727)
- B90 - Sicilian, Najdorf (4,607)
- A46 - Queen's Pawn Game (4,528)
- A15 - English (4,434)
- B40 - Sicilian (4,144)
- E12 - Queen's Indian (4,087)
- B07 - Pirc (3,819)
- B01 - Scandinavian (3,769)
- D02 - Queen's Pawn Game (3,715)
- C42 - Petrov Defense (3,617)
- B23 - Sicilian, Closed (3,522)
- E15 - Queen's Indian (3,481)
- D37 - Queen's Gambit Declined (3,399)
- A40 - Queen's Pawn Game (3,372)
- A45 - Queen's Pawn Game (3,356)
- E11 - Bogo-Indian Defense (3,096)
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What are the most common endings?
| 1.   vs (6,844)
2. vs (6,235)
3. vs (5,902)
4. vs (3,741)
5. vs (3,702)
6. vs (3,029)
7. vs (2,183)
8.  vs  (2,078)
9. vs (2,045)
10. vs (1,874)
11. vs (1,851)
12. vs (1,786)
13. vs (1,752)
14. vs (1,747)
15. vs (1,472)
| 16. vs (1,457)
17. vs (1,445)
18. vs (1,434)
19.  vs (1,344)
20. vs (1,237)
21. vs (1,176)
22. vs (1,147)
23. vs (1,106)
24. vs (1,054)
25. vs (1,031)
26. vs (1,028)
27. vs (1,016)
28. vs (957)
29. vs (949)
30. vs (944)
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Which chessgames.com users have kibitzed the most?
| 1. acirce (17,969)
2. WannaBe (13,600)
3. percyblakeney (12,973)
4. ughaibu (10,752)
5. EmperorAtahualpa (10,379)
6. Sneaky (9,499)
7. jessicafischerqueen (9,195)
8. aw1988 (9,108)
9. RookFile (8,176)
10. chancho (8,169)
11. notyetagm (7,912)
12. suenteus po 147 (7,776)
13. chessmoron (7,234)
14. Knight13 (7,194)
15. Open Defence (7,119)
16. iron maiden (6,993)
17. square dance (6,502)
18. Domdaniel (6,417)
19. azaris (6,406)
20. hitman84 (6,362)
| 21. Whitehat1963 (6,221)
22. cu8sfan (6,015)
23. Gypsy (5,929)
24. Honza Cervenka (5,917)
25. tpstar (5,720)
26. patzer2 (5,684)
27. Benzol (5,681)
28. Ulhumbrus (5,681)
29. keypusher (5,639)
30. chessgames.com (5,601)
31. euripides (5,421)
32. AdrianP (5,186)
33. TheAlchemist (5,078)
34. twinlark (5,018)
35. brankat (4,966)
36. Hesam7 (4,774)
37. drukenknight (4,719)
38. Eyal (4,626)
39. Karpova (4,621)
40. Richard Taylor (4,573)
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Which pages on chessgames.com have the most kibitzing?
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- Kibitzer's Café (69,710)
- Kramnik-Topalov World Championship Match (2006) (28,940)
- The World vs A Nickel, 2006 (26,613)
- Vladimir Kramnik (24,601)
- Y Shulman vs The World, 2007 (20,890)
- Robert James Fischer (19,243)
- Veselin Topalov (14,823)
- Magnus Carlsen (14,682)
- Garry Kasparov (10,392)
- Corus (2007) (9,158)
- World Chess Championship (2005) (8,383)
- Linares-Morelia (2007) (7,168)
- The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 (7,115)
- Raymond Keene (6,997)
- Corus Chess Tournament (2005) (6,286)
- Team White vs Team Black, 2006 (5,871)
- Zsuzsa Polgar (5,771)
- Viswanathan Anand (5,528)
- Paul Morphy (5,174)
- XXII Torneo Ciudad de Linares (2005) (4,902)
- Corus Wijk aan Zee (2006) (4,424)
- 37th Chess Olympiad (2006) (4,390)
- Beer (4,365)
- Nigel Short (3,955)
- Mtel Masters (2007) (3,841)
- MTel Masters (2006) (3,768)
- Odd Lie (3,749)
- Kramnik vs Deep Fritz (2006) (3,398)
- Tal Memorial (2006) (3,330)
- MTel Masters (2005) (3,307)
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Which are the most popular games for Guess-the-Move?
| - Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (given 91 times, par: 29)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (given 76 times, par: 35)
- Tal vs Lutikov, 1964 (given 64 times, par: 46)
- Philidor vs NN, 1749 (given 60 times, par: 60)
- Morphy vs Lord Lyttelton, 1858 (given 57 times, par: 15)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (given 57 times, par: 33)
- F A Hoffmann vs A Petrov, 1844 (given 50 times, par: 23)
- Nezhmetdinov vs P Ermolin, 1946 (given 50 times, par: 9)
- Korchnoi vs Spassky, 1948 (given 49 times, par: 9)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (given 48 times, par: 28)
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What games are frequently found in our users' Game Collections?
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- D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956 (354)
- Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 (270)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (238)
- Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (233)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (230)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (195)
- Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 (156)
- R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 (144)
- Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 (139)
- Tal vs Larsen, 1965 (135)
- Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 (132)
- Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 (127)
- S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 (125)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (124)
- Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895 (122)
- Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (119)
- Ed Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1911 (117)
- Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924 (116)
- Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 (109)
- Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929 (108)
- Short vs Timman, 1991 (106)
- Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (102)
- Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 (102)
- Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 (99)
- Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918 (98)
- Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 (98)
- Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 (97)
- Samisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923 (93)
- Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 (88)
- De Legal vs Saint Brie, 1750 (85)
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What java viewers are favored by registered users?
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- MyChess (Default) (90.22%)
- ChessTutor (4.12%)
- None (text only) (2.00%)
- Sjkbase (1.99%)
- MistyBeach (1.67%)
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