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The endgames in numbers.

What the endgame finder found in our games: by families, levels, players, openings and decades. A click on a bar leads to its positions.

Overview

524,062games with an endgame (46 %)
30,064positions with exactly one move
5,714turning points
207players with positions
432openings with a page of their own

Endgame families

The endgames of all games per family – to the endgame tree.

  1. Pawn endgames25,166
  2. Rook endgames120,632
  3. Minor pieces117,988
  4. Queen endgames25,398
  5. Rook and minor piece258,840
  6. Queen and piece145,897

Per time control

  1. Classical499,666
  2. Rapid10,875
  3. Blitz13,521

Trainer

Positions of the trainer per kind and level, from easy to hard.

Find the win 11,674

  1. Owlet3,390
  2. Young owl2,911
  3. Tawny owl2,772
  4. Eagle owl1,531
  5. Wise owl1,070

Save the game 18,390

  1. Owlet3,785
  2. Young owl6,282
  3. Tawny owl3,306
  4. Eagle owl4,054
  5. Wise owl963

Special kinds

  1. The quiet move4,971
  2. The king move12,574

Per endgame

  1. Rook endgames9,908
  2. Pawn endgames7,560
  3. Minor pieces5,118
  4. Rook and minor piece3,967
  5. Queen endgames2,649
  6. Queen and piece862

The five owl levels explained →

Players

The 20 players with the most positions in the trainer.

  1. Hikaru Nakamura178
  2. Loek van Wely166
  3. David Navara155
  4. Boris Gelfand152
  5. Yu Yangyi152
  6. Levon Aronian150
  7. Alexei Shirov134
  8. Viswanathan Anand131
  9. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave130
  10. Alexander Moiseenko129
  11. Magnus Carlsen128
  12. Ernesto Inarkiev121
  13. Sergey Karjakin117
  14. Ivan Šarić114
  15. Alexander Grischuk112
  16. Pentala Harikrishna110
  17. Alexey Dreev109
  18. Andrei Volokitin107
  19. Veselin Topalov106
  20. Boris Grachev106

All 207 players

ECO

Positions per volume of the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings – the opening the endgame came from.

  1. A · Flank openings6,283
  2. B · Semi-open games8,891
  3. C · Open games, French5,329
  4. D · Closed games5,256
  5. E · Indian defenses4,261

The 20 most frequent ECO codes

  1. B22 Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation503
  2. B07 Pirc Defense417
  3. B01 Scandinavian Defense360
  4. A07 King's Indian Attack319
  5. A45 Indian Defense298
  6. B33 Sicilian Defense: Open281
  7. B90 Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation280
  8. D02 Queen's Pawn Game: Zukertort Variation263
  9. E11 Bogo-Indian Defense244
  10. B06 Modern Defense235
  11. E12 Queen's Indian Defense231
  12. A30 English Opening: Symmetrical Variation230
  13. A48 Queen's Pawn Game: Barry Attack230
  14. C42 Petrov's Defense226
  15. B30 Sicilian Defense: Old Sicilian223
  16. D37 Queen's Gambit Declined: Three Knights Variation217
  17. D45 Semi-Slav Defense: Main Line217
  18. B08 Pirc Defense: Classical Variation213
  19. D00 Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Accepted212
  20. A46 Indian Defense: Knights Variation210

All 432 openings with a page of their own

Turning points

Where the tablebase found a win or a draw that the move of the game threw away.

  1. Win thrown away2,365
  2. Draw lost3,349

Per endgame

  1. Rook endgames1,755
  2. Rook and minor piece1,493
  3. Queen endgames1,199
  4. Minor pieces726
  5. Queen and piece304
  6. Pawn endgames237

Why resign? 15,568 last positions, 455 of them not lost →

Seen it before: 104 positions in 272 games →

Big 4

Points from endgames begun equal (Stockfish at the start, depth 24) – in percent.

  1. Magnus Carlsen57.4
  2. José Raúl Capablanca58.9
  3. Anatoly Karpov57.3
  4. Vasily Smyslov55.9
  5. Max Euwe58.5
  6. Paul Keres59.2
  7. Ulf Andersson56.7
  8. Wilhelm Steinitz51.7
  9. Emanuel Lasker58.1
  10. Alexander Alekhine60.1
  11. Mikhail Botvinnik57.2
  12. Mikhail Tal56.7
  13. Tigran Petrosian57.2
  14. Boris Spassky53.8
  15. Bobby Fischer60.2
  16. Garry Kasparov58.5
  17. Vladimir Kramnik53.6
  18. Viswanathan Anand51.7
  19. Ding Liren52.2
  20. Gukesh Dommaraju52.5

Games

Positions of the trainer per decade of their game.

  1. 1830–183915
  2. 1840–184910
  3. 1850–185934
  4. 1860–186920
  5. 1870–187923
  6. 1880–188965
  7. 1890–189988
  8. 1900–1909146
  9. 1910–191995
  10. 1920–1929184
  11. 1930–1939285
  12. 1940–1949270
  13. 1950–1959491
  14. 1960–1969773
  15. 1970–19791,392
  16. 1980–19892,984
  17. 1990–19999,306
  18. 2000–20098,733
  19. 2010–20194,094
  20. 2020–20291,016