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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.

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articles		 Importance
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Featured article FA 1 1 2
A 2 2
Good article GA 1 1 1 3
B 38 93 72 16 219
Start 4 80 439 581 1104
Stub 2 214 1036 1252
List 2 2 6 18 28
Assessed 46 178 734 1652 2610
Total 46 178 734 1652 2610

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[edit] 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
Assess the quality and importance of a chess article Articles to assess
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 List of chess topics: Related changes
Participate in WikiProject Chess discussions Wikiproject Chess Talk page

[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.

[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 User:Voorbot/Most_wanted_redlinks. The two most wanted are Rafael Leitao, Harold van der Heijden (6 pages linking to them).
  • Players in the (April 2008) FIDE top 100: Sergey Fedorchuk, Oleg Korneev, Ivan Ivanisevic, Daniel Fridman, Alexander Riazantsev, Mikheil Mchedlishvili, Dragan Solak, Pavel Tregubov
  • Players who appeared in the top 100 FIDE list since 2000 with a rating of at least 2600: Andrei Kharlov, Alexei Fedorov, Igor Khenkin, Gilberto Milos, Friso Nijboer, Valerij Filippov, Rustem Dautov, Alexander Lastin, Alexandru Crisan, Alexander Goldin, Zoltan Gyimesi, 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,Evgeniy Najer,Levan Pantsulaia.
  • 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.
  • 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 | Monika Socko | Ekaterina Kovalevskaya | Ekaterina Korbut | Zeinab Mamedjarova | Turkan Mamedjarova | Harika Dronavalli | 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 | Natalija Pogonina | Tatiana Shadrina |Zuzana Hagarova | Maia Lomineishvili | Eva Repkova | Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska | Szidonia Vajda | Katarina Nemcova | Ruth Sheldon | Joanna Dworakowska | Tea Bosboom-Lanchava | Ana Matnadze.
  • 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 | Elisabeta Polihroniade | Chantal Chaude de Silans | 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 | Antonia Ivanova | Alexandra Nicolau | Inga Khurtsilava.
  • Chess composer André Cheron.
  • 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].
  • 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): Slovak Chess Championship, Mexican Chess Championship, Azerbaijan Chess Championship, Kazakhstani Chess Championship, Moldovan Chess Championship, Iranian Chess Championship, Venezuelan Chess Championship
  • Strong tournaments with at least several editions: Tilburg chess tournament, Bugojno chess tournament, Amsterdam chess tournament, Rubinstein Memorial (information can be found on [5])
  • Shakhmaty v SSSR. Russian chess periodical started in 1931 is all I know.
  • We are missing a lot of World Chess Championships: World Chess Championship 1929, World Chess Championship 1934, World Chess Championship 1935, World Chess Championship 1937,World Chess Championship 1951, World Chess Championship 1954, World Chess Championship 1957, World Chess Championship 1958, World Chess Championship 1960, World Chess Championship 1961, World Chess Championship 1966,World Chess Championship 1969, World Chess Championship 1975, World Chess Championship 1978, World Chess Championship 1981,World Chess Championship 1985, World Chess Championship 1986, World Chess Championship 1987, FIDE World Chess Championship 1998, FIDE World Chess Championship 1999, FIDE World Chess Championship 2000, FIDE World Chess Championship 2002.
  • We currently have Chess World Cup 2007 and Chess World Cup, we definitely still need the Chess World Cup 2005 and 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.
  • 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 [6], [7], [8], [9] (this last one talk about the Reichhelm cable notation), [10] (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.

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

[edit] ... to merge

[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, Start or Stub) do not need a formal review and can be quickly assessed by anyone who wishes to do so.

[edit] 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.

The current candidates under review for GA-class are:

  1. listed on 12th April 2008
  2. review started on 19th May 2008 by User:Nikki311
  3. review successfully passed on 28th May 2008! Thanks to Philcha, Krakatoa, Mibelz and SyG for their contribution.
  1. listed on 3rd May 2008
  2. review started on 5th June 2008 by User:Noble Story

If you wish to review one of these articles, please follow the steps described here.

[edit] 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:

The review has finished on 3rd May 2008, the article has successfully reached the A-class. Thanks to Krakatoa, Bubba73, SyG, SunCreator, Voorlandt, Quale and others for their participation!

[edit] FA-class review

The process for articles to become FA-class is described here. We strongly advise to run the article through a successful A-class review first, as the FA reviews can be very strict and depressing.

The current candidates under review for FA-class are:

  • no current candidates

[edit] ... which are orphans

The following chess related articles are currently marked as orphan: Jaroslav Štúň, Leo Battesti, Memorial Heroes of Chernobyl

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

[edit] ... which need some work

  • 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.
  • The Russian Chess Championship has had its 60th edition [11]; yet our article lists only winners from 1992 (when Russia became independent of the USSR). In other words, all winners from the Russian "Regional" championship are missing. An almost complete list can be found on the Russian wikipedia [12] Only 1988, 1989 and 1990 is missing. (which I am sure we can find the winners off). Anyhow, I suggest expanding the article with all the winners, perhaps in analogy to the Slovenian Chess Championship.
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.

[edit] ... which need a photo

Leading (deceased) players still missing a photo include, in no particular order (contains at least 5 world champions!): Karl Robatsch | Ernst Falkbeer | Pedro Damiano | Edgard Colle | Arthur Dake | Semyon Furman | Alexander Konstantinopolsky | Rashid Nezhmetdinov | Alberic O'Kelly de Galway | Cecil Purdy | Olga Rubtsova | Lyudmila Rudenko | Emanuel Schiffers | Jackson Showalter | Gideon Stahlberg | Lajos Steiner | Georgi Tringov | Gavriil Veresov | Baruch Wood | Marmaduke Wyvill | Frederick Yates | Vladimir Zagorovsky | Ruy López de Segura [13]?.

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 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 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.

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  1. Aldrichio (talk · contribs) I am interested in chess history and like to help edit the biographical articles
  2. Andreas Kaufmann (talk · contribs) 06:52, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
  3. 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.
  4. Artichoker (talk · contribs) I'm interested in chess traps and openings. 00:22, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
  5. Arvindn (talk · contribs)
  6. Baccyak4H (talk · contribs) 16:54, 20 July 2007 (UTC) Done a good deal of stylistic editing for readability on some articles. Plan to do more.
  7. Bart133 (talk · contribs) 17:13, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
  8. Bcat (talk · contribs) 28 June 2005 22:16 (UTC)
  9. Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs)
  10. Bllasae (talk · contribs)
  11. blahblah5555 (talk · contribs)
  12. Brittle_heaven (talk · contribs)
  13. Bubba73 (talk · contribs) Might as well join. 05:43, 23 July 2006 (UTC) I've been playing since 1966. I have over 100 chess books, the bulk of which are on the endgame. I edit mostly endgames, rules, and chess terms. 05:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
  14. Calmsavior (talk · contribs) I have too much useless knowledge on chess and chess theory and would like to "unload" it for some usefulness. 06:15, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
  15. Chesslover96 (talk · contribs) Interested in helping out Wikipedia, and have detailed understanding of 1. e4 openings to share.
  16. 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.
  17. cocoaguy (talk · contribs) 17:38, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
  18. Cream147 (talk · contribs) 01:26, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  19. Dagurlwonder (talk · contribs) 04:54, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
  20. Darisley (talk · contribs) 20:10 (GMT+1), 13 April 2008 special interest: history of chess in UK
  21. Denizadam (talk · contribs) 17:24 (GMT+2) I'm new but I'm a chess player in my school's team(2nd best school in chess at Istanbul,Turkey)I want to help some way.
  22. Deoxyribonucletic acid (talk · contribs) an intersted but inexperienced chess player
  23. EliminatorJR (talk · contribs) I used to be a UK county standard player (BCF 169), although somewhat inactive these days. I still play regularly online.
  24. Etaonish (talk · contribs) 00:43, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
  25. Faithlessthewonderboy (talk · contribs) I'd like to create/contribute to articles concerning little known or obscure chess players. My favorite player is Tal.
  26. freenaulij (talk · contribs)
  27. Guido den Broeder (talk) 18:22, 16 April 2008 (UTC) Retired semi-professional and chess author. Guido den Broeder (talk) 18:22, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
  28. jacobolus (talk · contribs)
  29. JordanHenderson (talk · contribs) I'm an A-player USCF, once rated as high as 2098. I played a lot of chess in the 80s in Utah. Now, play (and live) in Ohio.
  30. Josepy (talk · contribs)
  31. JStripes (talk · contribs) I'm an avid chess player OTB, traditional correspondence, server-based CC, and online. I'm an active scholastic chess coach.
  32. 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.
  33. K37 (talk · contribs) 07:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
  34. Krakatoa (talk · contribs) 17:46, 3 September 2005 (UTC) 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.
  35. Ioannes Pragensis (talk · contribs) 09:26, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
  36. Loosmark (talk · contribs) 20:09, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
  37. Loyola (talk · contribs) Help as much as my ability allows 08:04, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
  38. Malathion (talk · contribs) 7 July 2005 00:03 (UTC)
  39. Mark Chung (talk · contribs) 02:12, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
  40. 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.
  41. Mathiastck (talk · contribs) I dig AI. 21:00, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
  42. Mibelz (talk · contribs) 19:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC) I am interested in History of Chess, especially the period 1850-1950.
  43. Mike Storm (talk · contribs)
  44. Mm40 (talk · contribs) Seventh grader who likes playing. Unfortunately, I can't do anything for this except copy edit. I will edit anything you ask me to.
  45. Nicholasink (talk · contribs)
  46. Nicoguaro (talk · contribs)
  47. Nirajrm (talk · contribs) 18:42, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
  48. Pawnkingthree (talk · contribs) Interested in biographies and the history of the world championship.
  49. Pecopteris (talk · contribs) Intersed mainly in chess openings.
  50. Peter Ballard (talk · contribs) 01:04, 13 August 2007 (UTC) I mainly contribute to the chess history articles.
  51. Quale (talk · contribs) 06:41, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  52. Rubico (talk · contribs) Rated 2000 USCF a lifelong chess player, i am interested in strategy and the fundamentals of the game
  53. Scholarus (talk · contribs) I'm an experienced chess player; I could expand articles on opening theory and tactics, for example.
  54. Shaunpress (talk · contribs) Shaun Press
  55. Sjakkalle (talk · contribs)
  56. Skarioffszky (talk · contribs) 17:19, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
  57. SpuriousQ (talk · contribs) 15:40, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
  58. Sonjaaa (talk · contribs) I'll be happy to help convert diagrams to the new Latex codes, once it's operational.
  59. snoyes (talk · contribs)
  60. StaticElectric (talk · contribs) 19:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
  61. 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
  62. SyG (talk · contribs) 19:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  63. thinktank2006 (talk · contribs): I am a novice player, and would love to help anything basic that would come up.
  64. 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)
  65. Two-face Jackie (talk · contribs) 8 December 2007
  66. Use_the_force (talk · contribs) 17:44, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
  67. VodkaJazz (talk · contribs) 5 November 2006
  68. Voorlandt (talk · contribs) 00:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
  69. W1k13rh3nry (talk · contribs) 02:34, 8 June 2007 (UTC) I would be happy to help; I have a USCF rating of around 1660. I usually RCP though so I might not help much :( Well I'll start by checking for inaccuracies in some articles :)
  70. Walter Chan (talk · contribs) 23:09, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
  71. Wikidude57 (talk · contribs) 21:40, 3 January 2008 (UTC) hi im Wikidude57 and i'm 2nd place at chess in my school
  72. ZeroOne (talk · contribs)

[edit] Milestones

  • On Friday 5 October 2007, the WikiProject Chess reached 2,000 articles with the article George Botterill.
  • On Saturday 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":