Chess Opening Names in Multiple Languages from Wikidata

3,994 parallel records of chess opening names were extracted from Wikidata via SPARQL queries on May 12, 2026. The dataset was created by Lichess and includes labels and Wikipedia titles in multiple languages. It serves as a multilingual translation resource for chess terminology.

Use Cases

• Train machine translation models based on the parallel corpus of opening names.
• Enhance chess databases with multilingual search capabilities based on translated opening labels.
• Analyze naming conventions for chess openings across different languages based on the label data.

Strengths

• 3,994 records provide a substantial base for translation tasks.
• Data sourced from the structured knowledge base Wikidata, which suggests a degree of curation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Wikidata

Collection Method

Extracted via SPARQL queries.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 12:59:06; freshness should be verified.