In chess games played at the top level, a draw is the most common outcome of a game: of around 22,000 games published in The Week in Chess played between 1999 and 2002 by players with a FIDE Elo rating of 2500 or above, 55 percent were draws.
What percent of chess games end in a draw?
Data
| Result | Games | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| White Win | 22640 | 28.85% |
| Black Win | 14121 | 18.00% |
| Draw | 41697 | 53.14% |
| Total | 78468 | 100% |
Who was the greatest chess player of all time?
Bobby Fischer
The bottom line and a personal top 10 chess players
| Rank | 1-year peak | 10-year peak |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bobby Fischer, 2881 | Garry Kasparov, 2863 |
| 2 | Garry Kasparov, 2879 | Emanuel Lasker, 2847 |
| 3 | Mikhail Botvinnik, 2871 | Anatoly Karpov, 2821 |
| 4 | José Capablanca, 2866 | José Capablanca, 2813 |
How many draws have there been in chess?
The ChessBase Mega Database 2021 is the premiere chess database with over 8.4 million games from 1560 to 2020 in high quality. €189.90 Draws in Chess over the Last 40 Years
Who is the greatest chess player of all time?
Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time. Fischer showed great skill in chess from an early age; at 13, he won a known as “The Game of the Century”.
Who is the baseball pitcher with the most complete games?
Among pitchers active in the 2021 season, Justin Verlander (as noted above, not playing in 2021) has the most complete games with 26, and only three others have more than 20.
Is it possible to compare chess players from different eras?
Arpad Elo was of the opinion that it was futile to attempt to use ratings to compare players from different eras; in his view, they could only possibly measure the strength of a player as compared to his or her contemporaries.
