chessResults makes it easier to scrape chess-results.com in R. It
currently returns a list of 5 tidy elements: tournament information,
starting rank, playing schedule, pairing/result for rounds, and closing
rank. Just supply the URL or the ID that is in the URL to the
chess_results() function and you are done.
NOTE: the package currently does not support scraping of tournament information for tournaments older than 5 days, and you will be warned about it when you try to do that. Tables other than tournament information will still be scraped.
You can install the latest version of chessResults from CRAN like this:
install.packages("chessResults")library(chessResults)
data <- chess_results("1445162")
dplyr::glimpse(data)
# List of 5
# $ tournament_information : tibble [1 × 20] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# ..$ tournament_name : chr "Kamyshin OPEN rapid 2026"
# ..$ federation : chr "RUS"
# ..$ tournament_director_1: chr "Cherenkov"
# ..$ tournament_director_2: chr "Andrey FIDE ID: 4185315"
# ..$ chief_arbiter_1 : chr "Sevostjanov"
# ..$ chief_arbiter_2 : chr "Roman FIDE ID: 24148482"
# ..$ time_control : chr "10'+5\""
# ..$ rapid : logi TRUE
# ..$ location : chr "Kamyshin"
# ..$ number_of_rounds : int 11
# ..$ tournament_type : chr "Swiss-System"
# ..$ rating_calculation_1 : chr "Rating national"
# ..$ rating_calculation_2 : chr "Rating international"
# ..$ fide_event_id : int 483777
# ..$ start_date : Date[1:1], format: "2026-07-09"
# ..$ end_date : Date[1:1], format: "2026-07-10"
# ..$ average_rating : int 1685
# ..$ average_age : int 24
# ..$ pairing_program_1 : chr "Swiss-Manager from Heinz Herzog"
# ..$ pairing_program_2 : chr "Swiss-Manager tournamentfile"
# $ tournament_starting_rank: tibble [45 × 5] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# ..$ title : chr [1:45] NA NA NA NA ...
# ..$ name : chr [1:45] "Андрей Федотов" "Андрей Андреевич Черенков" "Вячеслав Васекин" "Никита Алексеевич Карулин" ...
# ..$ fide_id : int [1:45] 24197351 4185315 55715265 34339663 34479767 24166804 55895549 24244732 24177580 55791565 ...
# ..$ federation: chr [1:45] "RUS" "RUS" "RUS" "RUS" ...
# ..$ rating : int [1:45] 2094 2077 1940 2116 2098 1961 2026 1895 1930 1901 ...
# $ playing_schedule : tibble [11 × 2] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# ..$ date: Date[1:11], format: "2026-07-09" "2026-07-09" ...
# ..$ time: 'hms' num [1:11] 16:00:00 16:30:00 17:00:00 17:30:00 ...
# .. ..- attr(*, "units")= chr "secs"
# $ rounds :List of 11
# ..$ : tibble [23 × 12] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# ..$ : tibble [23 × 12] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# ..$ : tibble [23 × 12] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# ..$ : tibble [23 × 12] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# ..$ : tibble [23 × 12] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# ..$ : tibble [23 × 12] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# ..$ : tibble [23 × 12] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# ..$ : tibble [23 × 12] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# ..$ : tibble [23 × 12] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# ..$ : tibble [23 × 12] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# ..$ : tibble [23 × 12] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# $ closing_rank : tibble [45 × 9] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
# ..$ starting_rank: int [1:45] 9 4 5 6 2 10 13 12 1 3 ...
# ..$ title : chr [1:45] NA NA NA NA ...
# ..$ name : chr [1:45] "Павел Кузуб" "Никита Алексеевич Карулин" "Тимофей Тютюнов" "Владислав Бельский" ...
# ..$ federation : chr [1:45] "RUS" "RUS" "RUS" "RUS" ...
# ..$ rating : int [1:45] 1930 2116 2098 1961 2077 1901 1853 1835 2094 1940 ...
# ..$ points : num [1:45] 9 9 8 8 8 7 7 7 6.5 6.5 ...
# ..$ tie_breaker_1: num [1:45] 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 ...
# ..$ tie_breaker_2: num [1:45] 77 76 78 76 76.5 75 69 64.5 78.5 75 ...
# ..$ tie_breaker_3: num [1:45] 72 71.5 73 71.5 71 71 64.5 62 74 70 ...