Package 'ChessGmooG'

Title: FIDE Chess Players Ratings for 2015 and 2020
Description: Datasets of the International Chess Federation's player ratings and country information analysed in the book Antony Unwin (2024, ISBN:978-0367674007) "Getting (more out of) Graphics".
Authors: Antony Unwin [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Antony Unwin <[email protected]>
License: GPL (>= 2)
Version: 0.1.0
Built: 2024-11-05 05:27:19 UTC
Source: https://github.com/cran/ChessGmooG

Help Index


Chess ratings from December 2015

Description

Ratings for every chess player, active or inactive, reported by FIDE, the International Chess Federation, in December 2015.

Usage

data(Chess2015)

Format

A data frame with 227960 observations on the following 7 variables.

ID_Number

ID number of player

Fed

Abbreviation for national federation of player

Sex

Sex of player, M or F

Tit

Title, if any: GM, IM, WGM, FM, WIM, CM, WFM, WCM

DEC15

Player rating in December 2015

Bday

Year of birth

Flag

Indicator variable: i (male inactive), wi (female inactive), w (female active)

Details

This dataset and the datasets Chess2020 and ChessCountries are used in Chapter 8, "Comparing chess players across the board".

Source

https://ratings.fide.com

Examples

data(Chess2015, package="ChessGmooG")
with(Chess2015, summary(DEC15))

Chess ratings from December 2020

Description

Ratings for every chess player, active or inactive, reported by FIDE, the International Chess Federation, in December 2020.

Usage

data(Chess2020)

Format

A data frame with 362502 observations on the following 7 variables.

ID_Number

ID number of player

Fed

Abbreviation for national federation of player

Sex

Sex of player, M or F

Tit

Title, if any: GM, IM, WGM, FM, WIM, CM, WFM, WCM

DEC20

Player rating in December 2020

Bday

Year of birth

Flag

Indicator variable: i (male inactive), wi (female inactive), w (female active)

Details

This dataset and the datasets Chess2015 and ChessCountries are used in Chapter 8, "Comparing chess players across the board".

Source

https://ratings.fide.com

Examples

data(Chess2020, package="ChessGmooG")
with(Chess2020, summary(DEC20))

Populations of countries with chess players and regional groupings of countries

Description

Populations of countries with chess players rated by FIDE and grouping of the countries into regions.

Usage

data(ChessCountries)

Format

A data frame with 188 observations on the following 8 variables.

Fed1

Abbreviation for country

Country

Name of country

Region

One of seven regional groupings of countries by the World Bank

fT

Number of country's active chess players in December 2020

Population

Population according to the World Bank

GM

Number of country's active grandmasters in December 2020

C1

Factor variable of names of countries

C1a

Factor variable of 30 countries with most players, with remaining countries grouped as "Other"

Details

This dataset and the datasets Chess2015 and Chess2020 are used in Chapter 8, "Comparing chess players across the board".

Source

https://data.worldbank.org

Examples

data(ChessCountries, package="ChessGmooG")
with(ChessCountries, table(Region, useNA="always"))

ChessGmooG: Chess datasets analysed in Chapter 8 of "Getting (more out of) Graphics"

Description

The two datasets of chess ratings from December 2020 and December 2015 are each bigger than 1Mb, so they are provided in this package.

Details

Most of the datasets analysed in the book are available in GmooG and other R packages.

Author(s)

Antony Unwin [email protected]