Talk:Back rank checkmate

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I dont fully understand why this article is tagged with ``This article or section does not cite its references or sources´´. I believe that every skilled chess player knows what a back rank checkmate is, and i have not been able to find any reasons why the lack of ``references and sources´´ could possibly be a problem here. A lot of books about learning chess or about the tactical basics of the game could be used as references, but i think this would not really improve the quality of the article. Water is wet <--- references or sources needed? In my oppinion, the tag could simply be removed.

Feel free to edit my comment, and please correct me if i made some mistakes (English is not my native language, so there might be some mistakes... and this is my first post on Wikipedia).

--S. Guggenberger, Munich, Germany 87.174.204.61 11:07, 1 December 2006 (UTC)


I agree. I made the following update: "Removed 'unreferenced'. As the OP stated, the material presented is mostly common knowledge among Class-C or above chess players, and the solutions to the diagrams are objectively verifiable." -- Likesforests 20:52, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Unfortunately that's not how it works. "Common knowledge" doesn't get a exemption from WP:V. Fortunately this material should be pretty easy to reference. The main problem is one commonly faced in sourcing elementary material: which of the many available references should be used? That problem is surmountable, and this page should be referenced. Quale 20:00, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Back Rank Mate links
http://www.chessdryad.com/education/magictheater/backrank/brmate_01.htm
http://main.uschess.org/content/view/7325/28/ (Middlegame section 4) :::ChessCreator 20:28, 28 October 2007 (UTC)