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Top 20 Chess Players 2000-2021

The best chess player of all time (or at least 2000-)

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About this Dataset

Top 20 Chess Players 2000-2021

Context

Chess is a recreational and competitive board game played between two players. The history of chess goes back almost 1500 years. Despite this, it is very popular nowadays. Moreover, it is a great challenge for artificial intelligence to constantly improving in this area where the sky is the limit.
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels. The current chess engines have ELO of more than 3500. How does this compare to the human chess players? You are about to find out!

Content

This dataset includes the top 20 chess players in 22 years (2000 - present) resulting in 440 rows. There are 5 columns: Position (rank); Name of the player; ELO of the player; Year of the ranking; Age of the player in the respective year.

Acknowledgements

Although the information in this dataset is freely available, it is gathered from https://2700chess.com/.

Inspiration

This dataset is tailored to beginners. It possesses only 5 columns, so it's fairly simple and will not confuse the users, yet basics and even advanced concepts could be applied!
Test your skills with this dataset! There is always room for improvement! Like in chess!
If you have any ideas for what else should be included or add another task, go ahead! Drop a line!

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