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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.
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.
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. While diagrams have used a Wikipedia-specific format, with Lua support the {{Chess diagram}} code in the English Wikipedia now supports FEN directly.
Here is how a chess diagram looks in the Wikipedia source:
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Which will look like this:
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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.
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. Other sites such as 365chess.com may be entered manually. The following are some of the external links that may be used for a player profile, using Viswanathan Anand as an example:
* {{fide|id=5000017|name=Viswanathan Anand}}
* {{Chessgames player|12088|Viswanathan Anand}}
* [http://www.365chess.com/players/Viswanathan_AnandViswanathan Anand] chess games at 365Chess.com
* [http://www.olimpbase.org/players/mw0k8ogi.htmlViswanathan Anand] team chess record at OlimpBase.org
* [http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Anand,%20Viswanathan.htmlViswanathan Anand] FIDE rating history, 1984-2001 at OlimpBase.org
* [http://www.benoni.de/schach/elo/elohis.html?id=5000017Viswanathan Anand] FIDE rating history at benoni.de
* [http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/PlayerProfile.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S003424000000111000000000001310100Viswanathan Anand] at [[Chessmetrics]]
* [http://main.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12465315Viswanathan Anand] USCF profile
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.
The template Template:Chess Barnstar has been created to be awarded to Wikipedians who have accomplished something great for the coverage of chess on Wikipedia.
Reviews and quality assessment
Assessment of an article as FA-class, A-class, GA-class or B-class is done via a formal review process. A review can also give insight and ideas on how to improve the article. Articles of lower quality (C, Start or Stub) do not need a formal review and can be quickly assessed by anyone who wishes to do so, using the criteria explained at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment.
High-quality articles
Articles covered by WikiProject Chess that have successfully passed formal reviews for quality are:
The FA-class review process is described at Wikipedia:Featured articles. Before nominating the articles for FA-class, please undertake the following steps:
At the end of the GA-class review, nominate the article for at least two peer reviews at Wikipedia:Peer review, asking the reviewers to prioritize checking the quality of prose.
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.
Articles currently under review for GA-class are:
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A list of most wanted articles, based on a redlink count in chess articles can be found at Wikipedia:CHESS/Most_Wanted.
Speed Chess Championship by chess.com, Magnus Carlsen, among other top players, played in it so I guess it's a respected competition
Players who appeared in the top 100 FIDE list since 2000 with a rating of at least 2600:
A stencil for creating chess player articles can be found here.
Other strong players who don't have articles, e.g. Jorge Sammour-Hasbun. See also List of chess grandmasters – over 500 grandmasters lack articles on the English Wikipedia although many have Wikipedia articles in other languages.
Leading women players – see List of female chess players for current lists of women with the Grandmaster title or the International Master title; recent additions to these lists may not already have articles.
Other important women players present and past – many are World Championship candidates, multiple national champions, etc. - for example, Vera Obermuller | Monika Seps.
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 need to cover Chess World Cup 1982, held in Hamburg and televised, as well as Chess World Cup 1988 (the GMA/Kavalek organised 1988-1989 series of events, and the subsequent botched attempt in 1991-1992). The book World Cup Chess by Kavalek gives a complete account of the 1988-1989 series. The Chess World Cup was a FIDE event in 1982, a GMA event in 1988-89, then again in 1991-92 (but abandoned), returned to being a FIDE event in 2000 and this is where our article Chess World Cup picks up the trail. Articles should perhaps be retitled to reflect the FIDE/GMA distinctions.
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 articles found on other language Wikis which could be translated into English.
Mikhail Chigorin Club, one exists on the Russian wikipedia, should be translated
Richard Eales. A noted chess historian, he wrote Chess: The History of a Game (1985) and has been Head of History of Kent in Canterbury. Gaige says he is Richard Geoffrey Eales born in 1949. Tied for second in the 1970 British Championship, played for England. Olimpbase has in in the 1976 European Men's Chess Club Cup and the Richard G Eales page on chessgames.com has more details.
Student World Team Chess Championship (aka Student Olympiad) had 22 editions from 1954 to 1977.[1] We might be able to cover the brief history of the poorly conceived U26 Team Championship and the even briefer history of the U20 Team Championship on the same page. http://www.olimpbase.org has some information.
Problem (chess magazine), started in 1951 by Nenad Petrović it was official journal of FIDE-PCCC(Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions)
Chess circulation or Chess edition or Chess printing (croatian: Šahovska naklada), publishing company established in 1945, published more than 200 chess books and first 14 FIDE albums
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.
Chess title and FIDE title link back to each other and appear to contain some crossover/duplication. Would these be better combined into one article? Also, both articles focus on performance based titles while 'International Arbiter' and 'International Organizer' titles appear to have been ignored, even though they are both Chess and FIDE titles. Another point to consider is the presence of Russian Federation grandmaster titles that are sometimes described as more prestigious than the FIDE equivalent - these may need some coverage.
Chess database could be improved and expanded, with more sources added
Global Chess League, there is a lot of info to get into this stub: Event origins, event organization, teams, results, commentators, purse, etc. Please help.
In terms of living players, the copyright laws are more stringent, nevertheless good quality images are sought of masters.
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).
NEW. The YouTube channel Gibraltar International Chess Festival has hundreds of Creative Commons–licensed interview videos, which may be of very good quality. Unfortunately, most of them seem to be poorly lit.
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 ...".
When describing moves, use short form English algebraic notation, and include Template:Algebraic notation. Thus, only the destination square is indicated, not the original square except for disambiguation purposes, e.g. Kf1, not Kg1-f1. Castling is indicated by 0-0 or 0-0-0, not O-O or O-O-O. Captures are indicated by the letter "x" rather than a multiplication sign ("×") or other indicator such as a colon (":"). Pawn captures include the "x" sign and name the destination square even in cases where there is no ambiguity, e.g. exd5 rather than exd or ed. Checks are indicated by "+" (plus sign), and checkmates by "#" (hash sign). There are no symbols specifically for discovered check or double check; simply use "+" for these. Promotions are indicated by "=" (equals sign), e.g. h8=Q. Be cautious with the use of chess annotation symbols (e.g. !, ?, ??), or any other editorial comment on a move. If challenged, an annotation needs a source, or else it may be removed.
Chess games with little or no commentary may be formatted as a dense block, PGN style. In the case when there is significant commentary (such as in Immortal Game), moves are written in boldface, and the annotations/commentary are most usually started in a separate indented paragraph for readability. The leads of openings articles have commentary outdented and moves indented (as in King's Gambit, McDonnell Gambit), and occasionally an article uses this formatting as well (e.g. Ruy Lopez, Noah's Ark Trap). An article with massive annotations/commentary (such as Kasparov versus the World) is best presented without any indenting. Due to accessibility concerns, it is recommended to use description list formatting to keep the HTML output clean.
Scores and half points
For match or tournament scores, follow the formatting conventions at the Chess scoring article, using a minus sign (−; −) instead of hyphens or dashes (see MOS:MINUS).
Use ½ to denote the scoring for a drawn game, rather than .5, 0.5, 1/2, 1⁄2, or 1/2. The first of these is generally used in print books and magazines. MOS:FRAC generally discourages the use of "precomposed fractions" such as this one, but makes an exception for articles in which ½ is the only fraction used, such as most chess articles.
In naming chess openings and variations, particularly obscure ones, beware of using "internet names" or local names. Addition of "meme openings" to articles is discouraged. Generally only names that have been published in reliable sources (e.g. Modern Chess Openings) should be used. For the more obscure or unconventional openings, some of which have acquired multiple names, a reliable source for the name should be provided.
Published FIDE ratings are given priority and may be included in a player's Infobox. Exceptionally, if a FIDE rating is unavailable, then a national federation's rating (e.g. USCF) may be used. Unofficial live chess ratings, such as those published by the site 2700chess.com and unofficial historical ratings such as those published by the sites chessmetrics.com and edochess.ca are considered self-published and should not be included in a player's Infobox. They are not normally mentioned in articles, as this is potentially undue weight.
Articles on chess players should meet the general notability guideline (GNG) of significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. That said, achievements of a chess player that make them likely to meet the GNG standard include:
Has significantly contributed to the development of chess in their country
Has made a significant contribution to chess theory
Has coached a high level chess player
Failure to meet these criteria does not mean an article must be deleted; conversely, meeting any of these criteria does not mean that an article must be kept. The article should provide reliable sources showing that the subject meets the general notability guideline or other topic-specific notability guidelines. This section is intended as a rough guide to notability, and has little weight in deletion discussions.
Analysis by a chess engine is original research and cannot be used on Wikipedia. This includes engine analysis generated by posting games or positions on sites such as lichess.org. However, if a reliable source refers to engine analysis, this can be used.
Pronouns
Chess literature has traditionally used the masculine third person pronoun when referring to an impersonal or hypothetical player, e.g. "Black should play ...d5 to free his king's bishop.". This style of writing is increasingly considered dated. However, editors are encouraged to consider alternatives to simply substituting they/their/them where he/his/him occur, as this tends to distract attention from the point being made.
Placing medal tables in a chess player's infobox (or even just adding a medal table alone) is discouraged. It would be a form of original research as it would use Wikipedia's editorial voice to elevate medals to a level of undue importance in Wikipedia that they don't have in the real world. Although chess players who win medals value them, credentials and other criteria for judging a player's success and strength tend to run to FIDE title, ratings, championships won, etc.
Using medals from the Chess Olympiad illustrates somes flaws this approach:
A team medal earned in a team event may not reflect the player's performance. For example, if he fell sick and only played one game, he still gets the medal.
A board prize earned in a team event may have been earned by facing a weak field. For example, Thai Dai Van Nguyen won an individual gold medal for second board in the 45th Chess Olympiad where out of ten opponents, only one was rated higher than 2600.
Medal tables can also be bloated which could lead to a subpar viewing experience especially when viewing on a mobile phone.
Finally most of the strongest tournaments do not award medals at all.
A better alternative is creating a "notable tournaments won" section or summary in the article's body to highlight a player's achievements. Examples of this include Vasyl Ivanchuk#Notable tournament victories and Alexander Alekhine#Summary of results in competitions. The regular table format allows inclusion of a lot more information and in a format that is easier to understand. Placing a potentially large table near the end of an article is much better than putting it at the top and before the article body.
As with all wikipedia articles, self-published sources are generally considered unreliable. Print sources are generally considered reliable, but certain authors such as Eric Schiller and Raymond Keene have a reputation for unreliability. Among the best online sources are Edward Winter and The Week in Chess.
New articles and renamed articles
When creating a new chess article, please add {{WikiProject Chess|class= |importance= }} to its talk page. The class and importance can be filled in or left blank. Also please add it to the index of chess articles.
When moving/renaming a chess article, please make the change in the index of chess articles also. This is so that changes to the article under the new name will show up under "related changes" to the index article. (The exact title of the article has to be on that page for it to show up that way.)
When creating an article about a player, there are a number of related player lists. Consider whether the article should be added to any of them. These include:
This is a list of Wikipedians who are active in WikiProject Chess. 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 in this project and five tildes.
Once you have joined, you may also add the Show membershipuserbox to your userpage as explained above.
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 local-level tournament director. 05:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
CaptainMorgan (talk· contribs) It appears I was once on this project, as my personal page shows a userbox that hasn't been edited since the year 2009. :) Well, I'm back. Cheers 10:37, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Chillowack (talk· contribs) - chess expert and enthusiast
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.
CommonCuppa (talk· contribs) rated about 1800, with a general desire to see chess articles improve, mostly with minor edits. 29 November, 2023
Crazyjonyjon465 (talk· contribs) Semi-active player online and OTB, ELO ~1000 - I've been covering the games for the 2023 World Championship, so I may as well join this project and find other things to contribute to. 01:16, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
DrZukhar (talk· contribs) I am not that strong at chess, but I do enjoy staring at the players.
DShafer (talk· contribs) - I've been playing chess on and off more or less serious for 63 years, having learned at the ripe old age of 5. One-time rated club player now resurrecting deeper interest in semi-retirement. 12:05, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Erux (talk· contribs) Chess openings expert and chess history buff
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
Hushpuckena (talk· contribs) 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]
infiniti4 (talk· contribs), I am an average club player and am interested in mostly computer chess.
J-E-N-O-V-A (talk· contribs) 20:17 4th October 2014 (BST) I'd like to produce animated gif's to accompany the algebraic notation on chess articles describing move-sequences. If you know of software that can help me produce these images it'd be much appreciated.
Jollyjalopy (talk· contribs) I used to play competitively but now I just love monster chess and blitz.
KoRoBeNiKi (talk· contribs) I mostly edit online chess sites as well as online biographies, such as updating ratings and the related. In terms of ratings, I am around a 1850 in over the board standard and around 2050 in blitz. My FIDE blitz is around 2040. My usernames on sites are CabassoG on both Chess.com and Lichess. --KoRoBeNiKi SSBWiki Rollback Moderator and chess specialist 16:57, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Maxipups Mamsipupsovich (talk· contribs) Only acquainted with chess for a year and a bit at the time of writing, but boy has it been one chess-packed year. Interested in most things chess. Current rating: 1900/2100 (chess.com Rapid/Lichess Blitz) but constantly improving. e4 or death. Maxipups Mamsipupsovich (talk) 13:34, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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.
Rhododendrites (talk· contribs) - hoping to find time to make contributions to some of the openings and variants pages, but feel free to leave messages if you're looking for help with a particular article/topic/project. --Rhododendrites (talk) 21:51, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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
Sourov0000 (talk· contribs) I am a professional level chess player and like to analyze every move of chess. I can expand articles about tactics, formations and defense.
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 1980s and early 1990s... :-) 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)
UltraSonja (talk· contribs) Club chess player with an interest in PGNs.
Usedtobecool (talk· contribs) Avid follower of tournaments (might get to related articles in time to update them), also might create articles on players/events I find don't have one. 07:35, 17 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Iloveguppy (talk· contribs) 11:35, 27th January 2021 (UTC) I am strong advanced chess player. I am interested in the chess history and chess openings and techniques. In terms of ratings I play mostly on chess.com and have a 1800+ rapid rating, 1700+ blitz rating and 1750+ bullet rating, although o sometimes play on lichess for blitz and bullet time controls and I am around 1900 for bullet and 2100 for Blitz.
JulieMinkai (talk· contribs) I love chess, even though I'm not very good at it. The chess section of WP seemed more or less drama-free, so I decided to join! 22:16, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Coolheights23 (talk· contribs) Rated 1550 bullet/blitz and 1800 rapid. Still learning and trying to get better. 6:48, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
Mr.Alpha7 (talk· contribs) I am a bit over 1000-rated on chess, but have been studying and want to help this game go on into the world even farther. 1:22, October 14 2024
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