Chess Styles

Chart:

• The chart on the left shows 24,000 different Lichess bullet games
• Each game is represented by one dot, which is colour-coded by the player that played white
• Dots close together represent similar games
• For example, advanced French Defences tend to be in the top right, English openings in the bottom left, and so on
• Click on a dot to run through the game on the board
• Enter a lichess username to load in their games as white

Classifier:

• A 'Long short-term memory' Recurrent Neural Network has been trained on the game data
• Given a game as an input, it predicts the probability one of the top 8 players played this game
• This probability distribution for each game is shown next to the board
• On unseen games by one of the top 8 players, the classifier achieves a 75% accuracy
• After entering a lichess user, you can see their most similar players in the summary tab

Player details: