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WikiProject Chess

Welcome to WikiProject Chess!

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better improve information on chess-related articles. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and/or see the list below.

Feel free to join this WikiProject by adding your name to the list.

Chess
articles		 Importance Refresh
 Top   High   Mid   Low  Bottom  ???  Total
Quality  FA 0 3 0 1 00 4
 A 0 0 1 1 00 2
 GA 12 4 6 16 60 44
B 12 26 38 42 70 125
C 23 96 114 247 144 498
Start 0 77 528 1786 5825 2478
Stub 0 19 222 3711 2825 4010
 FL 0 0 1 1 00 2
List 2 2 16 60 40 84
??? 0 0 0 0 00 0
Total 49 233 938 5952 12254 7348

How you can help

Looking for something to do? The following table lists the most important tasks of the WikiProject Chess.

What Where
Expand a chess "stub" Category:Chess stubs
Request or create a new chess article Articles to create
Discuss or nominate chess articles to be deleted Articles to delete
Merge or nominate two chess articles Articles to merge
Rename a chess article Articles to rename
Peer-review a chess article Articles to review
Investigate orphan articles Articles which are orphans
Suggest or edit a chess article needing attention Articles which need some work
Add a photo to a chess article Articles which need a photo
Maintain the chess portal Portal:Chess
Add an infobox to articles of chess players Chess players infobox
Monitor recent changes Index of chess articles: Related changes
Participate in WikiProject Chess discussions Wikiproject Chess Talk page

Templates

One of the goals of WikiProject Chess is the uniform presentation of chess related articles. For this aim, a couple of templates have been created. See Category:Chess templates for a full list; the most useful ones are explained below.

Diagrams, annotation and notation

According to the Wikimedia commons, the current "standard" for Chess diagrams on Wikipedia is the chess diagram template. See Template:Chess_diagram for the template and Template_talk:Chess_diagram for instructions on how to use it. The Tool FEN2Wikipedia converts FEN to use the "chess diagram" template.

Bubba73 has written a Windows program to generate chess diagrams for Wikipedia articles. You can download it here. It is the first program on the download screen, either download WikiChessDiagram.zip and extract the EXE file or download WikiChessDiagram.EXEC and change the extention to ".exe". This new version 2.0 fixes some bugs and has some enhancements. It runs under Windows, and it automatically puts the code for a chess diagram in your clipboard, or you can copy and paste it. Select the piece on the left and then click on the square.

Having uniform chess diagrams will be easy once LaTeX chess support is here. Word has been for several years 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 with security risk, hopefully this will get sorted out. The other problem will be displaying diagrams with arrows as are present in Chess tactics — for the time being they'll probably just have to remain pictures.

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

Template:HiddenMultiLine is handy for the captions of chess diagrams as it allows you to hide part of the caption, e.g. a game continuation or problem solution.

Biographies

A template has been created to display an infobox for chess players. See Template:Infobox_chess_player for an example and instructions on how to use it. The easy way to use it is copy an existing similar one.

A 'Infobox chess player' is already found on many pages like Mikhail Chigorin, Mikhail Botvinnik for dead people and for a living person Susan Polgar, Anatoly Karpov, etc. Where no photo of the player is available, Hans Berliner is a good example.

For external links, Template:fide for the FIDE rating card and Template:chessgames player for the link to the player's page at ChessGames.com are available.

There are perhaps still 1000 chess players to do, and it looks like there will be more than enough to do for quite some time. A full list of chess players is found here, although a shorter list like List of chess grandmasters might be more interesting to work through.

Openings

A template has been created to display an infobox for chess openings. See Template:Infobox chess opening for an example and instructions on how to use it. For a list of chess openings see List of chess openings and List_of_chess_topics#Opening_articles.

Reviews and quality assessment

The review of an article aims to assess the article as FA-class, A-class, GA-class or B-class, by decreasing order of quality. It can also simply give useful insights and ideas on how to improve the article. Lower classes (C, Start or Stub) do not need a formal review and can be quickly assessed by anyone who wishes to do so, along the criteria explained at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment.

Articles of upper quality

The articles in the scope of the WikiProject Chess that have successfully undergone one or several formal reviews for quality are the following: Portal:Chess/Reviewed articles

FA-class review

The process for articles to become FA-class is described at Wikipedia:Featured articles. Before nominating the articles for FA-class, we advise to undertake the following preliminary steps before:

  1. Nominate the article for an A-class review at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Review.
  2. At the end of the A-class review, nominate the article for a GA-class review at Wikipedia:Good article nominations.
  3. At the end of the GA-class review, nominate the article for at least two peer-reviews at Wikipedia:Peer review, specifying the reviewer to check the quality of prose in priority.

The current candidates under review for FA-class are:

  • none

A-class review

You can find a list of articles candidates for A-class at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Review#Current candidates. There you can nominate an article for A-class, review an A-class candidate and assess it, or find in the reviews some ideas for improving the candidates.

The current candidates under review for A-class are:

GA-class review

The process for articles to become GA-class is described here. Although GA-class is lower than A-class, a possible first step is to nominate the article to an A-class review first, as it will possibly get some comments quicker than through the formal GA process. If you wish to review an article, please follow the steps described at Wikipedia:Good article nominations. The current candidates under review for GA-class are:

  • none

Articles

... to create

  • Chess player Louis Eichborn, the best player of all time [3]. Seriously, there is a lot of information out there. Including on chessgames.com, de.wikipedia and [4]. This suggests Anderssen gave Eichborn "odds" by agreeing that draws would count as wins for Eichborn. The author may be right about the unusual features of their games, but draws were rare in those days.
  • We need an article on (dedicated) chess computers. Only the article on computer chess briefly mentions them, but the topic definitely deserves to have its own article (history, most important brands, etc). There is a lot to say here. A good collection of links can be found at www.chesscomputers.org.
Currently confusing. Needs work across the range of articles and maybe some re-titling to reflect the GMA/FIDE distinction. The Chess World Cup was a GMA event in 1988-89, then again in 1991-92 (but abandoned), became a FIDE event in 2000 and this is where our article Chess World Cup picks up the trail.
  • Cable chess matches (perhaps a better title is possible). Annual matches between the US and the UK (the best 10 players), late 19th, early 20th century. It is a great piece of chess history, and we should have an article about it. Some interesting links [5], [6], [7], [8] (this last one talk about the Reichhelm cable notation), [9] (enter site and search the Brooklyn Eagle for "chess cable match"). Also a little bit in Sunnucks' The Encyclopedia of Chess and in The Oxford Companion to Chess.
  • Also the Soviet humiliation of the US in the famous USSR–USA 1945 Radio Match, and subsequent face-to-face matches in 1946, 1954, and 1955. (Article name may need some work.)
The 1945 match now has an article, USA vs. USSR radio chess match 1945.

... to delete/listed for deletion

... to merge

Already merged by the proposer.
They could be unmerged easily by a revert each. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 17:44, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

... to rename

  • The article Grandmaster norm mentions that norms are required for other titles such as IM, WGM etc. However, if this article were made more generic by renaming to Norm (chess) or similar, then, with some re-shuffling of content, it would provide a more 'universal' link.
  • Several sub-categories in Category:Chess titles need their titles editing for consistency and good English. For instance, Chess woman International Masters needs to be Chess woman international masters (as we use grandmasters, not Grandmasters in other titles). Also 'Grandmasters of chess composition' would be better than '... the chess compositions'). The word Chess is sometimes capitalised mid-title and other times not etc. etc. Also, if we accept WIM cat, shouldn't we also have an IM cat?
    • The IM category has been created.
I would suggest that Category:Chess international masters and the like would be the wrong direction, as International Master is universally capitalized, as is Woman International Master. With GM the practice is less consistent, and sometimes even (the abominable in my view) "Grand Master" is used. Perhaps more pressing is to make it clear that creation of the IM categories does not imply that all IMs (and certainly not all WIMs) meet WP:BIO requirements for inclusion.

... which are orphans

The following chess related articles are currently marked as orphan: Leo Battesti, Memorial Heroes of Chernobyl, Birdie Reeve Kay.

They should be linked from other articles or their notability should be questioned (e.g. considered for deletion).

... which need some work

  • The articles on the various tournament systems and tie-breaking systems, we have a bit of information, see Category:Chess tournament systems, but most articles in that category need serious revision. For instance Scheveningen system is a stub (it for instance mentions that it is a popular way to create title norm opportunities, which is true, but needs a cite.
Today (March 12, 2008) someone tagged a section of it with "O.R." and added a lot of "fact" tags.
  • Check (chess) needs work on the lead and first section. The article used to be "chess (board game)", so there was some stuff that needed be taken out (I did). But the lead and first section are still very wordy and perhaps confusing. Maybe the first section isn't needed, since the whole article is about chess now, and some of it can be combined with the lead. This important article needs improvement.
This article has been worked on, see if it is OK now. 00:16, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
  • Queen sacrifice needs more examples, and the current example is not very good. The text needs work too.

... which need a photo

Leading (deceased) players still missing a photo include, in no particular order: Karl Robatsch | Ernst Falkbeer | Edgard Colle | Arthur Dake | Alexander Konstantinopolsky | Rashid Nezhmetdinov | Alberic O'Kelly de Galway | Cecil Purdy | Olga Rubtsova | Lyudmila Rudenko | Jackson Showalter | Gideon Stahlberg | Lajos Steiner | Georgi Tringov | Gavriil Veresov | Baruch Wood | Marmaduke Wyvill | Frederick Yates | Vladimir Zagorovsky

Some important (deceased) players need improved photos, even though they may have one already, for example Bobby Fischer | David Bronstein | Lev Polugaevsky | CHO'D Alexander | Aivars Gipslis.

In terms of living players, the copyright laws are more stringent, nevertheless good quality images are sought of masters including Svetozar Gligoric | Lev Alburt | Andor Lilienthal | Hans Berliner | Larry Evans | Boris Spassky.

See the Talk page (December 2007) for more information on how these photos may possibly be obtained.

This page has a lot of photos, but they all seem to be small (100 pixels wide).

... which are new

Most of the new chess related articles will show up here: User:AlexNewArtBot/ChessSearchResult.

Capitalization conventions

  • The names of pieces (king, queen, rook, etc.) are not capitalized (except when the first word of a sentence).
  • The words "white" and "black" are capitalized only when they are used as substitutes for player names, e.g. "... captured White's rook ... " and "the black queen...".
  • In quotations, the capitalization used in the source is followed, even if different from the above conventions.

New articles - add project tag

When creating a new chess article, please add {{Chess-WikiProject|class = |importance= }} to its talk page. The class and importance can be filled in or left blank.

To show membership

Use the code {{Wikiproject/Chess/Userbox}} to show this: Template:Wikiproject/Chess/Userbox

This will automatically add you in the Category:WikiProject Chess participants

Participants Participants

This is a list of Chess Wikipedians who are committed to this Chess WikiProject. If you’re interested in helping, feel free to join by adding your name to the list below, in alphabetical order. If you wish, leave a comment about your special interests on this project and five tildes.

Once you have joined, you may also add the Show membership userbox to your userpage as explained above.

  1. Andreas Kaufmann (talk · contribs) 06:52, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. APDEF (talk · contribs) 12:26, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Arbitrarily0 (talk · contribs) 19 August, 2008
  4. Artichoker (talk · contribs) I'm interested in chess traps and openings. 00:22, 10 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Baccyak4H (talk · contribs) Done a good deal of stylistic editing for readability on some articles. Plan to do more. 16:54, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  6. BIONICLE233 18:29, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
  7. Bllasae (talk · contribs) 18:26, 18 May 2008
  8. blahblah5555 (talk · contribs) 03:37, 11 August 2007
  9. Brittle_heaven (talk · contribs) 11:31, 12 August 2007
  10. Bruce Edward Williams (talk · contribs) I am an active player, both OTB and online, and have an extensive knowledge with regards to openings. I would really like to see a vast expansion of the Wikipedia's chess articles and more in depth explanations of opening systems. 09:58, 4 December 2008
  11. Bubba73 (talk · contribs) Might as well join. 05:43, 23 July 2006 (UTC) I've been playing since 1966. I have over 200 chess books, the bulk of which are on the endgame. I edit mostly endgames, rules, and chess terms. I am a USCF club level director. 05:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  12. CaptainMorgan (talk · contribs) Left USCF as a Master but no longer competing, maybe again someday... hobbyist instructor to whoever wants to learn and of course, long-time fan. 00:27, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Chesslover96 (talk · contribs) Interested in helping out Wikipedia, and have detailed understanding of 1. e4 openings to share. 00:41, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Chr.K. (talk · contribs) Among thoughts for other innovations for the project, believe a table for chess games can be created, one much more easeful on the eye than the current system. 01:25, 29 July 2007.
  15. DAFMM (talk · contribs) I enjoy playing chess, April 7th 2009.
  16. Dagurlwonder (talk · contribs) 04:54, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  17. DaQuirin (talk · contribs) I am not too active on the English site, but I am willing to contribute in the field of chess history. 09:47, 29 July 2008
  18. Facepalming (talk · contribs)
  19. Ernstblumberg (talk · contribs) 23:01, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Fairfieldfencer (talk · contribs) 15:10, 8 November 2008
  21. Faithlessthewonderboy (talk · contribs) I'd like to create/contribute to articles concerning little known or obscure chess players. My favorite player is Tal. 02:10, 29 August 2007
  22. Friscodelrosario (talk · contribs) Writer and editor. 2005 chess journalist of the year. Author, A First Book of Morphy. Interested in peer reviewing.
  23. fuzzyhair2 (talk · contribs) I am a geek. A bold thinker. 08:38, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  24. GBizzle (talk · contribs) I would be interested in getting a java pgn game player on here (if possible) so people can play through the games/positions on the wikipedia page. 05:29, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  25. Guido den Broeder (talk · contribs) Retired semi-professional and chess author. 18:22, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Haosys (talk · contribs)
  27. Hannu-san (talk · contribs) (talk) 17:20, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Hi878 (talk · contribs) 01:55, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  29. Template:User Hushpuckena Retired USCF master, though I remain interested in the history of the game and its players. Have done some copy editing (used to write for a chess magazine), and would like to see general state of articles on chess in Wikipedia improve.--Hushpuckena (talk) 09:29, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  30. Ioannes Pragensis (talk · contribs) 09:26, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  31. J S Ayer (talk · contribs) Dilettante; I have just created an article for Courier Chess and rewritten the history section of bishop (chess) and have struggled with History of Chess and rewrote Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa and do a good deal of copy-editing.
  32. Josepy (talk · contribs) 18:51, 30 March 2008
  33. Js1056 (talk · contribs) Js1056 (talk) 22:31, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  34. JWHPryor (talk · contribs) 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.
  35. Kiril Simeonovski (talk · contribs) I can do a lot in editing variations in the chess theory. 12:55, 3 October 2008
  36. Krakatoa (talk · contribs) I'm a USCF master at over-the-board chess and a USCF Senior Master at correspondence chess. I also have a lot of chess books. 17:46, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  37. Kronian (talk · contribs) I will research and contribute to underepresented opening theory. I will start with improving the sections on the French Defense and the Closed Sicilian.
  38. Lab-oratory (talk · contribs) 14:41, 13 July 2008
  39. loosmark (talk · contribs)
  40. Mahjunhim (talk · contribs) 01:18, 18 May 2009. Club USCF chess player. Enjoy computer chess as well as blitz. Know opening theory and have lots of chess books.
  41. Mark Chung (talk · contribs) 02:12, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  42. Matthew_Yeager (talk · contribs) I'm able to help with some programmatic aspects as well. I'm working on a universal Game Board rendering script right now, and I've completed rendering FEN from a board position. Please post to my usertalk with any suggestions.
  43. Mibelz (talk · contribs) I am interested in History of Chess, especially the period 1850-1950. 19:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  44. MrsHudson (talk · contribs) 23 November 2008
  45. Nicoguaro (talk · contribs)
  46. NovaSkola (talk · contribs) 15:55, 03 May 2009 (GMT)
  47. Otdanon (talk · contribs) Chess player & author 0:15, 19 June 2009
  48. Pawnkingthree (talk · contribs) Interested in biographies and the history of the world championship.
  49. Pecopteris (talk · contribs) Intersed mainly in chess openings. 13:39, 3 May 2008
  50. Peter Ballard (talk · contribs) I mainly contribute to the chess history articles. 01:04, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  51. Philcha (talk · contribs) Mainly chess history 13:06, 21 August 2008
  52. Quale (talk · contribs) 06:41, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  53. Ruziklan (talk · contribs) chess composition (problems, themes, composers, terminology...) 17:56, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  54. Scholarus (talk · contribs) I'm an experienced chess player; I could expand articles on opening theory and tactics, for example. 04:13, 16 December 2006
  55. Sci-Fi Dude (talk · contribs) I am a novice chess player, and highly interested in tactics.
  56. ScottM84 (talk · contribs) 04:48, 2 January 2009
  57. Sjakkalle (talk · contribs) 06:06, 29 March 2005.
  58. SpuriousQ (talk · contribs) 15:40, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  59. SunCreator (talk · contribs) Enjoy chess theory, if you do also you might like the wikibooks project Opening theory in chess 23:36, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
  60. SyG (talk · contribs) 19:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  61. Tommy Kronkvist (talk · contribs) I used to be a Swedish club player; my merits include losing big-time to the (then) reigning Swedish Champions in the late 1980's and early 1990's... :-) Nowadays I'm not playing in a club, even though I still play a lot of chess. I'm mostly interested in chess history and hypermodern chess openings, such as the Réti Opening and Pirc Defence, and will try to contribute in those areas. 08:37, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
  62. Veraladeramanera (talk · contribs) I am very fond of playing chess whenever I get the chance.
  63. VodkaJazz (talk · contribs) 5 November 2006
  64. Voorlandt (talk · contribs) 00:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  65. WHPratt (talk · contribs) 15:47, I am an awful player, but I have studied the game and its history for decades. 24 May 2009 (UTC)
  66. Yoshikelvin (talk · contribs) 14:59, 24/9/2009 (GMT+10, Victoria, Australia)
  67. ZeroOne (talk · contribs) 15:55, 26 March 2005
  68. WaveRunner85 (talk · contribs) 21:20, 27 May 2009
  69. Malinaccier (talk · contribs) 18:52, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Milestones

  • 7 April 2002: Chess was listed as "Brilliant Prose", the former version of "Featured Article".
  • 30 December 2003: the WikiProject Chess was launched.
  • 5 October 2007: the WikiProject Chess reaches 2,000 articles with the article George Botterill.
  • 12 April 2008: the WikiProject Chess reaches 2,500 articles with the article Ariah Mohiliver.
  • 30 September 2008: Rules of chess became the 10th article to reach a high level of quality (either FA-class, A-class or GA-class; see Portal:Chess/Reviewed articles).
  • 25 January 2009: the WikiProject Chess reaches 3,000 articles with the article Vienna 1908 chess tournament.

Although chess has many aspects (art, sport, science, game, ...), the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture classifies WikiProject Chess in the Games category. Several other WikiProjects can be considered as "parent" or at least "related":

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