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Chess-Ref.org

Welcome to Chess-Ref.org

Welcome to Chess-Ref.org a chess site focused on usability and accessibility. The games found on this site require no special plugins to be installed and should work in any browser. The pages conform to public standards.

You can start by using the PlayerIndex or the OpeningIndex or by using the search.

Chess-Ref.org statistics

181235 games

21891 players (15252 unique family names)

Random Game

Each time you come to this page a new, random game of two high rated players will be linked from here.

Topalov, Veselin (2735) vs. Gelfand, Boris (2709); 1/2-1/2 (2004-03-27). Go to game.

Chess-Ref.org was created by Beda Kosata, the author of the chemical drawing program BKchem, from the Laboratory of Chemistry and Informatics of the ICT Prague.