Is there a definitive answer for which chess player (master or otherwise) has played the most games?

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ShapeOverTime

I've been wondering if it is known if there is a player who has played the most games. Sorta like in Football/Soccer where Peter Shilton played around 1,400 games in his career. And when tallying this up would you include online games outside of tournaments (example being Hikaru's streams where he got to the highest rating on chess.com with the bongcloud). I think this would be an interesting thing to work out

justbefair
ShapeOverTime wrote:

I've been wondering if it is known if there is a player who has played the most games. Sorta like in Football/Soccer where Peter Shilton played around 1,400 games in his career. And when tallying this up would you include online games outside of tournaments (example being Hikaru's streams where he got to the highest rating on chess.com with the bongcloud). I think this would be an interesting thing to work out

Pretty sure that the guys who have been playing all day every day since the site founded would win.

There was a guy, Pokerbloke, up to 453,733 the last I checked.

/ But his account was closed.

https://www.chess.com/member/pokerbloke99

Steven-ODonoghue

@henry14605 is the current leader, although he hasn't been online in more than a year.