chess-games
standard-chess-games
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This dataset is still a work in progress and some breaking changes might occur.
Lichess Rated Standard Chess Games Dataset
Dataset Description
6,771,826,271 standard rated games, played on lichess.org, updated monthly from the database dumps.
This version of the data is meant for data analysis. If you need PGN files you can find those here. That said, once you have a subset of interest, it is trivial to convert it back to PGN as shown in the Dataset Usage… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Lichess/standard-chess-games.chess_gamesDataset descriptions:
lichess_6gb: 6GB of 16 million games from lichess's database. 16492151 games, 6486463314 chars. No elo filtering performed. Comprised of games from lichess 2016-06 and 2017-05.
lichess_9gb: 9GB of games from lichess's database. No elo filtering performed. Comprised of games from lichess 2017-07 and 2017-08.
lichess_100mb: 100MB of 300k games from lichess's database. Comprised of games from lichess 2016-01. This is used to train linear probes on a separate dataset from… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/adamkarvonen/chess_games.tournament-chess-games
Lichess Broadcasts Dataset
Dataset Description
931,021 chess games from chess tournaments tracked using Lichess Broadcasts.
Lichess Broadcasts show live games as they unfold with new moves arriving in real time. They are built to connect to the live-updating PGN file produced by DGT boards but can work with other sources as well.
Broadcasts are organized in "tournaments" and "rounds."
Dataset Sample
{
'Event': 'FIDE World Championship Match 2021',
'Site':… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Lichess/tournament-chess-games.chess960-chess-games
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This dataset is still a work in progress and some breaking changes might occur.
Note
The FEN column has 961 unique values instead of the expected 960, because some rematches were recorded with invalid castling rights in their starting FEN in November 2023.
crazyhouse-chess-games
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This dataset is still a work in progress and some breaking changes might occur. In the meantime, please use https://database.lichess.org/#variant_games
antichess-chess-games
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This dataset is still a work in progress and some breaking changes might occur.