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In this study, we propose a method to build a deep-learning-based recommendation system using large-scale user data of an online community related to board games. Our study showed that new games can be effectively recommended for board-game users based on user big data accumulated for a long time. This is the first study to propose a personalized recommendation system for users in the board-game market and to introduce a provision of new large datasets for board-game users. The proposed dataset shares symmetric characteristics with other datasets and has shown its ability to be applied to various recommendation systems through experiments. 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