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

Chess articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA	1	2			3
	A			1		1
	GA	3		1	2	6
	B	12	25	25	7	69
	C	25	62	51	32	170
	Start	3	86	462	641	1192
	Stub		3	235	1177	1415
	List	2	2	7	21	32
	Assessed	46	180	782	1880	2888
	Total	46	180	782	1880	2888

[edit] How you can help

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 or go to my website and pick Downloads and get it that way. 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. This new version 1.01 fixes some bugs and has some enhancements.

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.

[edit] 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, 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 In cases of no photo available Hans Berliner is a good example.

For external links, Template:fide for FIDE rating card and Template:chessgames player for example games are available.

Perhaps still 1000 chess players to do and it looks like there is more then enough to be doing for quite some time. A full list of chess players is found List_of_chess_topics#Biographical_articles here although working to a shorter list like List of chess grandmasters might be more interesting to work through.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Articles

[edit] ... to create

• A list of most wanted articles, based on a redlink count in chess articles can be found at Wikipedia:CHESS/Most_Wanted.

• Players who appeared in the top 100 FIDE list since 2000 with a rating of at least 2600: Valerij Filippov | Alexander Lastin | Alexandru Crisan | Alexander Goldin | Branko Damljanovic | Merab Gagunashvili | Alexander Rustemov | Vladimir Belov | Murtas Kazhgaleyev | Alexey Korotylev | Semen Dvoirys | Sergey Smagin | Giorgi Giorgadze | Vereslav Eingorn | Igor Novikov | Vladimir Chuchelov | Magaram Magomedov | Joerg Hickl | Mladen Palac | Drazen Sermek | Jean-Marc Degraeve | Toni Najdoski | Valeriy Neverov | Ioannis Papaioannou | Pavel Kotsur | Zurab Sturua | Pavel Smirnov | Mikhail Kobalia | Levan Pantsulaia | Ferenc Berkes | Gadir Guseinov | Boris Grachev | Tomi Nyback | Surya Shekhar Ganguly | Sergey Fedorchuk | Oleg Korneev | Daniel Fridman | Mikheil Mchedlishvili | Dragan Solak | Pavel Tregubov | Boris Savchenko | Vadim Malakhatko. A stencil for creating chess player articles can be found here.

• Other strong players who don't have articles, such as: Georgy Agzamov | Berthold Suhle | Anatoly Lutikov | Andrei Kharitonov | Yury Sakharov | Yuri Dokhoian | Vereslav Didishko | Sergey Kudrin | Sergei Makarichev | Evgeny Pigusov | Leonid Yurtaev | Pavel Blatny.

• The current (2007) World Junior Champion Ahmed Adly is the only U-20 winner without an article, but we are missing many of the girls.

• We should address the fact that biographies of leading women players are lagging way behind the men. The following missing players are, or have recently been, close to the top of women's and junior women's chess, in no particular order - Lela Javakhishvili | Ekaterina Kovalevskaya | Ekaterina Korbut | Zeinab Mamedjarova | Turkan Mamedjarova | Inna Gaponenko | Dagne Ciuksyte | Elina Danielian | Monika Seps | Corina Peptan | Susan Lalic | Ticia Gara | Anita Gara | Marta Michna | Cristina Foisor | Elena Tairova | Sabina-Francesca Foisor | Tatiana Shadrina | Zuzana Hagarova | Maia Lomineishvili | Eva Repkova | Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska | Szidonia Vajda | Ruth Sheldon | Ana Matnadze | Anna Zozulia | Silvia Collas | Carolina Lujan | Elena Sedina | Tatjana Vasilevich.

• There are also historically important women players of the recent and not so recent past - many are world championship candidates, multiple national champions etc. - for example, Natalia Alekhina | Nino Gurieli | Rowena Bruce-Dew | Elena Fatalibekova | Ellen Gilbert | Eileen Tranmer | Mary Gilchrist | Edith Price | Mary Rudge | Barbara Hund | Katrina Jovanovic | Eva Karakas | Zsuzsa Veroci | Ingrid Larsen | Milunka Lazarevic | Tatiana Lemachko | Edith Michell | Vera Nedeljkovic | Vera Obermuller | Valentina Borisenko-Belova | Valentina Kozlovskaya | Alexandra Nicolau | Inga Khurtsilava.

• 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.

• We have a lot of national championship articles, yet we are still missing a few important nations (see Chess around the world): Mexican Chess Championship, Azerbaijan Chess Championship, Kazakhstani Chess Championship, Moldovan Chess Championship, Venezuelan Chess Championship

• World Correspondence Chess Championship. Correspondence chess and ICCF have some data on this.

• We currently have Chess World Cup 2007, Chess World Cup 2005 and Chess World Cup, we still need Chess World Cup 1988 (mention of the GMA/Kavalek organised, 1988-1989 series of events, and the subsequent botched second series in 1991). The book World Cup Chess by Kavalek gives a complete account of the 1988-1989 series.

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.

• Chess database. We have Category:Chess databases, but a lead article is recommended for most categories and there is a fair amount to say about this subject. It would also let us improve a link in First move advantage in chess and possibly other articles.

• 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 Grandmasters Association or 'GMA' was the organising body of the World Cup events mentioned above. The Exec. Director was Lubomir Kavalek - the GMA is now defunct. The history of PCA and GMA can be found here

• Chess magazines, see also List of chess periodicals: American Chess Bulletin, Chess Express, Shakhmaty v SSSR (Russian chess periodical started in 1931)

• Openings and variations: Marshall Attack needs a article of its own. If you do it, add interwiki link to fi:Marshallin gambiitti.

• The My Great Predecessors series of books by Kasparov, plus the successors (Modern Chess). This links to the Kasparov article. I think they could have their own article.

• Al-Adli Look this and add iw-link to this fi:Al-Adli and de:Al-Adli.

• Bilbao Grand Slam, iw-links: fi:Bilbao Grand Slam and pl:Final Chess Masters Bilbao 2008

• The European Chess Union is an independent organising body, based in Lausanne, Switzerland and needs it's own article. Lots of info on their own website.

[edit] ... to delete/listed for deletion

• Rebecca Harris on Afd, second nomination.

[edit] ... to merge

• not necessarily to merge, but to look at together. King's Indian Attack, Reti opening and Flank opening.

[edit] ... to rename

[edit] ... to assess

Instructions moved to Assessment page.

[edit] ... to review

The review of an article aims to assess the article as GA-class, A-class or FA-class, or simply to give insights and ideas on how to improve the article. Lower classes (B, 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.

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:

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:

• Adolf Anderssen, review started on 17/06/2008, please participate at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Review/Adolf Anderssen.
• George H.D. Gossip, review started on 12/11/2008, please participate at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chess/Review#Review_of_George_H.D._Gossip.
• Wilhelm Steinitz, review started on 06/11/2008, please participate at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Review/Wilhelm Steinitz.

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 a 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:

• (no candidates for the moment)

Articles of quality
The articles in the scope of the WikiProject Chess that have successfully undergone a review for quality are currently the following:

Featured articles	A-class articles	Good articles
Chess	Bughouse chess	Alexander Alekhine
First-move advantage in chess		Chess boxing
The Turk		Endgame tablebase
		Howard Staunton
		Rules of chess
		Stuart Milner-Barry

The articles listed in A-class are also recognised as Good articles.

[edit] ... which are orphans

The following chess related articles are currently marked as orphan: Jaroslav Štúň, 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).

[edit] ... which need some work

• All stubs in Category:Chess stubs, such as Irregular chess opening, FIDE Master, Outpost (chess) or Romantic chess
• All articles in Category:Chess articles needing expert attention

• A list of most linked chess articles can be found at User:Voorbot/Most_linked. The list gives a reasonable good idea which articles are important, and some articles at the top definitely need some work, for instance Chess Olympiad.

• 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.

• A lot of the Chess Olympiads (see Category:Chess Olympiads) are stubs, a lot of work left there!.

• Elo rating system needs work - a lot of unreferenced material, may be OR or POV.

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.

• Queen sacrifice needs more examples, and the current example is not very good. The text needs work too.

• Ricardo Calvo, a new article, needs editing for grammar, style.

• Top importance articles that require much work. Chess strategy, Chess tactics, Queen (chess), Rook (chess), King (chess), A.D Philidor, Boris Spassky

• High importance articles that require much work. Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, Queen's Gambit, World Chess Championship 2009, Gambit, Timeline of chess, International Master, Scholar's mate, Interzonal

• Chess (application) - the Mac chess program needs sources. Was Proded but contested.

[edit] ... which need a photo

Leading (deceased) players still missing a photo include, in no particular order: Karl Robatsch | Ernst Falkbeer | Edgard Colle | Arthur Dake | Semyon Furman | 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 and former world champions Garry Kasparov | 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).

[edit] Capitalization conventions

• The names of pieces (king, queen, rook, etc) are not capitalized (except at the first 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...".

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[edit] 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)
2. Andy4226uk (talk · contribs) I am a 150 BCF player. I am very knowledgable about 1.e4 openings, in particular the sicilian. I would also happily help out with most other aspects of chess articles, but I know very little about famous chess players. I am also going to try and create some of the World Championship articles. 11:21, 12 May 2007
3. APDEF (talk · contribs) 12:26, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
4. Arbitrarily0 (talk · contribs) 19 August, 2008
5. Artichoker (talk · contribs) I'm interested in chess traps and openings. 00:22, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
6. 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)
7. Bart133 (talk · contribs) 17:13, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
8. Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs) 02:03, 20 March 2007
9. Bharathprime (talk · contribs) 03:55, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
10. Bllasae (talk · contribs) 18:26, 18 May 2008
11. blahblah5555 (talk · contribs) 03:37, 11 August 2007
12. Brittle_heaven (talk · contribs) 11:31, 12 August 2007
13. 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)
14. Chesslover96 (talk · contribs) Interested in helping out Wikipedia, and have detailed understanding of 1. e4 openings to share. 00:41, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
15. 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
16. Dagurlwonder (talk · contribs) 04:54, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
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. Darisley (talk · contribs) special interest: history of chess in UK 20:10 (GMT+1), 13 April 2008
19. Fairfieldfencer (talk · contribs) 15:10, 8 November 2008
20. 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
21. 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)
22. Guido den Broeder (talk · contribs) Retired semi-professional and chess author. 18:22, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
23. Hannu-san (talk) 17:20, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
24. Ioannes Pragensis (talk · contribs) 09:26, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
25. Josepy (talk · contribs) 18:51, 30 March 2008
26. Js1056 (talk · contribs) Js1056 (talk) 22:31, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
27. 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.
28. Kiril Simeonovski (talk · contribs) I can do a lot in editing variations in the chess theory. 12:55, 3 October 2008
29. 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)
30. 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.
31. Lab-oratory (talk · contribs) 14:41, 13 July 2008
32. Mark Chung (talk · contribs) 02:12, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
33. 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.
34. Mathiastck (talk · contribs) I dig AI. 21:00, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
35. Mibelz (talk · contribs) I am interested in History of Chess, especially the period 1850-1950. 19:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
36. Nepatsfan (talk · contribs) I love to play chess and would like to help out with any articles. 19:54, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
37. Nicoguaro (talk · contribs)
38. Pawnkingthree (talk · contribs) Interested in biographies and the history of the world championship.
39. Pecopteris (talk · contribs) Intersed mainly in chess openings. 13:39, 3 May 2008
40. Peter Ballard (talk · contribs) I mainly contribute to the chess history articles. 01:04, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
41. Philcha (talk · contribs) Mainly chess history 13:06, 21 August 2008
42. Quale (talk · contribs) 06:41, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
43. Rubico (talk · contribs) Rated 2000 USCF a lifelong chess player, i am interested in strategy and the fundamentals of the game. 16:24, 16 March 2008
44. 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
45. Sentriclecub (talk · contribs) likes to contribute to the meta-development of chess articles.
46. Sjakkalle (talk · contribs) 06:06, 29 March 2005.
47. SpuriousQ (talk · contribs) 15:40, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
48. SunCreator (talk · contribs) Past county player. Highlights included being floated down to play David Bronstein. Enjoy chess theory, if you do also you might like the wikibooks project Opening theory in chess 15:31, 8 February 2008
49. SyG (talk · contribs) 19:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
50. 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)
51. VodkaJazz (talk · contribs) 5 November 2006
52. Voorlandt (talk · contribs) 00:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
53. Yoshikelvin (talk · contribs), I am good at tactics and strategy in chess. 02:49, 27 September 2008
54. ZeroOne (talk · contribs) 15:55, 26 March 2005

[edit] 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 reached 2,000 articles with the article George Botterill.
• 12 April 2008: the WikiProject Chess reached 2,500 articles with the article Ariah Mohiliver.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

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":

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Strategy games
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Board and table games specifically excludes chess articles from its scope, in order to avoid interference with WikiProject Chess (thanks to them!)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Games
• Wikibooks:Chess