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chess: Kaggle Chess Players (2010)

Description

A directed, signed network (edgelist) among chess players (nodes) giving the chess match outcomes (edges), for game-by-game results among the world's top chess players. The direction of edge (i,j) denotes white player (i) and black player (j). Each edge is timestamped (approximate). Edge sign is +1 for a win by white, 0 for draw, and -1 for a win by black. The dataset is anonymous: the identity of the players in unknown and timestamps are approximate.

Usage

chess

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 65053 games and 4 variables:

White

ID of white player

Black

ID of black player

Result

+1 for white win; 0 for draw; -1 for black win

Timestamp

one month precision, may be shifted towards future by unknown amount

Details

Citation: "Chess ratings- Elo versus the Rest of the World." Kaggle (2010).