Lichess bibliography crosses 300 research papers, with 100 published in 2026 alone

christopher · x · 2026-11-14

Lichess maintains a bibliography of papers that use, study, or cite its data, now crossing 304 entries from 938 authors across 355 institutions. Output is accelerating: 44 papers in 2024, 99 in 2025, and 100 already in 2026. Top affiliated institutions include Google DeepMind, University of Toronto, and Princeton, with frequent keywords like machine learning, deep learning, transformers, and large language models — showing the open chess dataset has become a significant resource for AI research.

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