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: 480,528
Years covered: 1475 to 2008 (534 years)
White wins 177,063 games (36.85%)
Black wins 128,317 games (26.70%)
175,141 games are drawn (36.45%)
Average # of moves per game: 39.31
Average Elo rating of rated players: 2232
# of games with annotation: 2,377 (0.49%)
# of games with kibitzing: 61,210 (12.74%)
# of kibitzes in total: 1,478,550
# of registered users: 102,961
# of users registered in last 30 days: 1,466 (1.42%)
# of registered users seen in last 90 days: 13,295 (12.91%)
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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 (4,228)
2. Jan Timman (3,304)
3. Anatoli Karpov (3,289)
4. Svetozar Gligoric (3,127)
5. Mikhail Tal (2,821)
6. Lajos Portisch (2,650)
7. Vasily Smyslov (2,623)
8. Vlastimil Hort (2,542)
9. Bent Larsen (2,513)
10. Borislav Ivkov (2,427)
11. Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (2,398)
12. Anthony Miles (2,308)
13. Ratmir Kholmov (2,267)
14. Efim Geller (2,254)
15. Vassily Ivanchuk (2,248)
16. Viswanathan Anand (2,229)
17. David Bronstein (2,182)
18. Alexey Shirov (2,179)
19. Boris Spassky (2,174)
20. Garry Kasparov (2,146)
| 21. Ulf Andersson (2,096)
22. Paul Keres (2,085)
23. Michael Adams (2,074)
24. Nigel Short (2,031)
25. Mark Taimanov (1,994)
26. Lev Polugaevsky (1,962)
27. Loek Van Wely (1,947)
28. Ljubomir Ljubojevic (1,944)
29. Oleg Romanishin (1,918)
30. Vladimir Kramnik (1,907)
31. Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1,905)
32. Jan Plachetka (1,903)
33. Artur Yusupov (1,898)
34. Jan Smejkal (1,898)
35. Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1,897)
36. Vlastimil Jansa (1,892)
37. Alexander Alekhine (1,883)
38. Varlam Vepkhvishvili (1,860)
39. Milan Matulovic (1,818)
40. Boris Gelfand (1,810)
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Which players most often make winning sacrifices?
Which opening variations are played most often?
| - A04 - Reti Opening (7,007)
- B22 - Sicilian, Alapin (6,504)
- B06 - Robatsch (6,213)
- B90 - Sicilian, Najdorf (5,407)
- A46 - Queen's Pawn Game (5,270)
- B40 - Sicilian (4,949)
- A15 - English (4,917)
- D02 - Queen's Pawn Game (4,498)
- E12 - Queen's Indian (4,137)
- B33 - Sicilian (4,117)
- B07 - Pirc (4,066)
- B01 - Scandinavian (4,021)
- B23 - Sicilian, Closed (3,998)
- C42 - Petrov Defense (3,907)
- A45 - Queen's Pawn Game (3,895)
- A00 - Uncommon Opening (3,882)
- E15 - Queen's Indian (3,867)
- B30 - Sicilian (3,733)
- D37 - Queen's Gambit Declined (3,680)
- E11 - Bogo-Indian Defense (3,561)
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What are the most common endings?
| 1.   vs (7,501)
2. vs (6,855)
3. vs (6,497)
4. vs (4,096)
5. vs (4,053)
6. vs (3,323)
7. vs (2,438)
8.  vs  (2,296)
9. vs (2,254)
10. vs (2,076)
11. vs (2,030)
12. vs (1,983)
13. vs (1,934)
14. vs (1,917)
15. vs (1,619)
| 16. vs (1,608)
17. vs (1,604)
18. vs (1,578)
19.  vs (1,440)
20. vs (1,356)
21. vs (1,289)
22. vs (1,270)
23. vs (1,208)
24. vs (1,174)
25. vs (1,127)
26. vs (1,120)
27. vs (1,118)
28. vs (1,052)
29. vs (1,048)
30. vs (1,044)
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Which chessgames.com users have kibitzed the most?
| 1. acirce (22,286)
2. percyblakeney (17,103)
3. WannaBe (16,783)
4. jessicafischerqueen (16,254)
5. notyetagm (11,802)
6. chancho (11,464)
7. ughaibu (11,215)
8. brankat (10,920)
9. RookFile (10,919)
10. whiteshark (10,843)
11. Open Defence (10,801)
12. chessmoron (10,510)
13. Domdaniel (10,396)
14. EmperorAtahualpa (10,386)
15. Sneaky (10,301)
16. suenteus po 147 (9,222)
17. Knight13 (9,207)
18. aw1988 (9,097)
19. ahmadov (8,569)
20. keypusher (8,405)
| 21. Whitehat1963 (8,314)
22. twinlark (8,145)
23. Eyal (8,002)
24. square dance (7,992)
25. hitman84 (7,762)
26. achieve (7,738)
27. Ulhumbrus (7,650)
28. slomarko (7,550)
29. iron maiden (7,163)
30. patzer2 (7,087)
31. azaris (6,791)
32. Gypsy (6,740)
33. tpstar (6,646)
34. Karpova (6,623)
35. Benzol (6,617)
36. virginmind (6,563)
37. YouRang (6,518)
38. Tabanus (6,503)
39. Honza Cervenka (6,477)
40. euripides (6,385)
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Which pages on chessgames.com have the most kibitzing?
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- Kibitzer's Café (77,875)
- The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 (44,535)
- Vladimir Kramnik (31,763)
- Magnus Carlsen (29,761)
- Kramnik-Topalov World Championship Match (2006) (28,966)
- Robert James Fischer (27,498)
- The World vs A Nickel, 2006 (26,631)
- Y Shulman vs The World, 2007 (20,930)
- Veselin Topalov (15,895)
- Garry Kasparov (12,605)
- FIDE World Championship Tournament (2007) (11,907)
- Viswanathan Anand (10,537)
- Corus (2007) (9,161)
- World Chess Championship (2005) (8,385)
- Corus (2008) (7,646)
- Raymond Keene (7,404)
- Linares-Morelia (2007) (7,172)
- A Nickel vs The World, 2008 (6,326)
- Corus Chess Tournament (2005) (6,286)
- Zsuzsa Polgar (6,119)
- Battle of the Brains, 2007 (5,900)
- Team White vs Team Black, 2006 (5,877)
- Odd Lie (5,873)
- Team White vs Team Black, 2008 (5,612)
- Paul Morphy (5,442)
- World Chess Cup (2007) (5,143)
- Nigel Short (5,102)
- Morelia-Linares (2008) (5,061)
- XXII Torneo Ciudad de Linares (2005) (4,900)
- Team White vs Team Black, 2008 (4,690)
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Which are the most popular games for Guess-the-Move?
| - Kasparov vs Ulf Andersson, 1981 (given 257 times, par: 42)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (given 157 times, par: 32)
- Kasparov vs Beliavsky, 1983 (given 156 times, par: 59)
- Philidor vs NN, 1749 (given 127 times, par: 63)
- Morphy vs J McConnell, 1849 (given 121 times, par: 46)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (given 119 times, par: 36)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (given 111 times, par: 34)
- F A Hoffmann vs A Petrov, 1844 (given 107 times, par: 23)
- Morphy vs E Rousseau, 1849 (given 106 times, par: 16)
- J McConnell vs Morphy, 1850 (given 104 times, par: 19)
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 (436)
- Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 (349)
- Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 (314)
- Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 (309)
- Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (275)
- Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 (247)
- Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 (196)
- Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 (188)
- R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 (187)
- S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 (162)
- Ed Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1912 (161)
- Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929 (159)
- Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 (158)
- Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (154)
- Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 (153)
- Tal vs Larsen, 1965 (153)
- Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895 (150)
- Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924 (148)
- Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (147)
- Short vs Timman, 1991 (143)
- Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 (129)
- Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 (128)
- Samisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923 (126)
- Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (121)
- Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 (121)
- Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 (121)
- Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918 (117)
- Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 (115)
- Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 (114)
- McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834 (111)
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What java viewers are favored by registered users?
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- Chess Viewer Deluxe (Default) (89.30%)
- ChessTutor (4.64%)
- None (text only) (1.82%)
- Sjkbase (1.69%)
- MistyBeach (1.47%)
- MyChess (1.08%)
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