ECHOExploratory Compendium of Humanity Online

Chess Game Outcome Network

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A Chess game records (professional matches) dataset of 7,301 nodes and 60,046 edges, collected by KONECT via chess game database. Each record contains directed: True, weighted: True, signed: True. Directed network of chess game outcomes: edges go from winner to loser, with timestamps. Draws encoded as 0 weight.. Suitable for competition network analysis, ranking algorithms, temporal network analysis.

#Chess#Competition network#Konect#Ranking#Signed edge#Timestamps

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The full graph has 7,301 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

7.3K
Nodes
60K
Edges
1.13e-03
Density
77
Components
0.3912
Assortativity
13.8%
Reciprocity
922
Bridges
Most central nodes
3300.01521
920.01507
4550.01425
4610.01384
4560.01342
660.01301
16230.01274
6590.01274
6730.01274
3870.01247
Content metrics

65,053 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

weightμ 0.091 ± 0.742
min -1max 1
low 23%medium 44%high 33%
signμ 0.091 ± 0.742
min -1max 1
low 23%medium 44%high 33%

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
chess
Authors
Kunegis, Jérôme
Year
2013
Source paper
KONECT — The Koblenz Network Collection
DOI / arXiv
10.1145/2487788.2488173
License
CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
Records
7,301
Nodes
7,301
Edges
60,046 (directed)
Nodes are
player
Edges are
game
Attributes
nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
Languages
en
Collected
2006 (2000s)
Tasks
Edge sign prediction (binary; sign) inferred
From the graph: link prediction, community detection

Provenance

Originally published at
https://konect.cc/networks/chess/ unverified
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 266.7 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

Citations

KONECT: the Koblenz network collection
Jérôme Kunegis
Journal Article · The Web Conference · 2013

1.8K
citations
highly cited
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BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{konect,
  title     = {KONECT -- The {Koblenz} Network Collection},
  author    = {Kunegis, J\'{e}r\^{o}me},
  booktitle = {Proc. Int. Conf. on World Wide Web Companion},
  pages     = {1343--1350},
  year      = {2013},
  url       = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2488173}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Kunegis, J. (2013). Chess Game Outcome Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2488173

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Kunegis, Jérôme. Chess Game Outcome Network. 2013, doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2488173.

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