Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess

Title

WikiProject Chess

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to present all the wikipedia articles about chess in a coherent fashion. This includes the coherence of the following aspects:

• Chess diagrams
• Annotation of chess games
• Notation

Note that according to the Wikimedia commons, the current "standard" for Chess diagrams on Wikipedia is the chess diagram template; see the link for more information.

Having uniform chess diagrams will be easy once LaTeX chess support is here. Word has it that it will soon be implemented on wikipedia. It is already implemented on http://wikisophia.org. For Examples see [1] & [2]. At the moment there is a problem in that only two diagrams can be shown in each game, hopefully this will get sorted out. The other problem will be displaying diagrams with arrows as are present in Chess strategy and tactics — for the time being they'll probably just have to remain pictures.

However, one of the more useful activies, chess games interspersed with commentary, should be possible with unlimited diagrams.

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Sports.

Good choice! "Sport first, game second". :) Revolver 19:35, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Participants

• snoyes
• Revolver 19:35, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)
• Mike Storm
• ZeroOne
• Sonjaaa - I'll be happy to help convert diagrams to the new Latex codes, once it's operational.
• Etaonish 00:43, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
• Sjakkalle
• Quale 06:41, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Dalf | Talk
• Falphin 01:39, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
• jacobolus (t)
• Bcat (talk | email) 28 June 2005 22:16 (UTC)
• Malathion 7 July 2005 00:03 (UTC)
• ThreeE Would like to see the development of a opening theory wiki. I have started one over at the Chess wikibook.
• JWHPryor I'd like to see some stuff done for the opening theory as well. I could give some info on d4 openings. Also willing to help with the LaTeX.
• Krakatoa 17:46, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Dwheeler

Discussion

As always: for discussion, use the talk page.

See also

These links may be helpful tools for the project members:

• List of chess topics: Related changes - a shared watchlist of all articles related to chess. Please add new chess articles to the list.
• Category:Chess stubs - a category of chess related articles that need improving.
• Portal:Chess - the chess portal

FEN2Wikipedia converts FEN to use the "chess diagram" template.