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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:
{{Chess diagram|align=tleft|fen=r3r1k1/pp3pbp/1Bp1b1p1/8/2BP4/Q1n2N2/P4PPP/3R1K1R b - - 0 18|footer=Describe position here}}
Which will look like this:
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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. 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_Anand Viswanathan Anand] chess games at 365Chess.com
* [http://www.olimpbase.org/players/mw0k8ogi.html Viswanathan Anand] team chess record at OlimpBase.org
* [http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Anand,%20Viswanathan.html Viswanathan Anand] FIDE rating history, 1984–2001 at OlimpBase.org
* [http://www.benoni.de/schach/elo/elohis.html?id=5000017 Viswanathan Anand] FIDE rating history at benoni.de
* [http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/PlayerProfile.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S003424000000111000000000001310100 Viswanathan Anand] at [[Chessmetrics]]
* [http://main.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12465315 Viswanathan Anand] USCF profile
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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.
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.
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.
Articles identified as orphans can be found with this link.
They should be linked from other articles or their notability should be questioned (e.g. considered for deletion).
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of chess people
Leading (deceased) players still missing a photo include, in no particular order: |Baruch Wood | Hans Berliner
Some important (deceased) players need improved photos, even though they may have one already, for example Aivars Gipslis | Alexander Konstantinopolsky | Lajos Steiner.
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).
Others: Play-by-mail game.
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.
Some articles are frequently overtaken by events, and need to be kept up to date. Examples include List of chess grandmasters, FIDE world rankings, and articles about active "super-GMs" including Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Vishwanathan Anand, Ding Liren, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Hikaru Nakamura and Alexander Grischuk.
An assortment of useful tools created by Philcha
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.
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), except for "A–B" format scores, which use an unspaced en dash (see MOS:ENBETWEEN).
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.
Only opening names that are well-established and in common use should be used on Wikipedia. This means they must have been published in reliable sources (e.g. Modern Chess Openings). In naming chess openings and variations, particularly obscure ones, beware of using "internet names". The internet has seen the introduction of a plethora of non-traditional opening names on self-published websites which are not normally used in chess literature, and the websites often copy each other in using them. For the more obscure or unconventional openings, some of which have acquired multiple names, a reliable source for the name should be provided. Even if a reliable source can be found, a named opening line which has very rarely or never been played in a high level game is unlikely to be notable enough to mention in an article, because Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Addition of "meme openings" to articles is discouraged.
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:
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. If a reliable source refers to engine analysis, however, this can be used.
In general, a move's merits should be described in human terms. For example, "White has an advantage due to the lead in development and weak black d-pawn", not "Stockfish evaluates this position at +1.2". Engine evaluations do not represent absolute truth, only one engine's assessment of a position on a particular piece of hardware with particular settings after analyzing a particular number of nodes.
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. Editors are encouraged to consider alternatives over simply substituting they/their/them or she/her/her where he/his/him occurs, however, as this tends to distract attention from the point being made. For example, the passive voice or constructions like "to free the king's bishop" can be used instead.
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:
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.
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39th Chess Olympiad 40th Chess Olympiad 41st Chess Olympiad 42nd Chess Olympiad 43rd Chess Olympiad 44th Chess Olympiad 45th Chess Olympiad 46th Chess Olympiad Pal Benko Arianne Caoili Magnus Carlsen World Chess Championship 2018 Jorge Cori Richard K. Guy Demis Hassabis Carol Jarecki Viktor Korchnoi William Lombardy Daniel Naroditsky Open event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad Serzh Sargsyan Sander Severino Mark Taimanov Jan Timman Wolfgang Uhlmann Viswanathan Anand Women's event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad World Chess Championship 2010 World Chess Championship 2012 World Chess Championship 2014 World Chess Championship 2016 World Chess Championship 2021 World Chess Championship 2023 World Chess Championship 2024 42nd Chess Olympiad 43rd Chess Olympiad Robert Abbott (game designer) Zhansaya Abdumalik Adolf Anderssen Dina Belenkaya Matthias Blübaum Budapest Gambit Bughouse chess Chess in Armenia Cop-win graph Anna Cramling Deep Blue (chess computer) En passant Bobby Fischer Nona Gaprindashvili Aleksandra Goryachkina Sopiko Guramishvili Garry Kasparov Anna-Maja Kazarian Alan Kotok Stefán Kristjánsson Stanley Kubrick Emanuel Lasker Gunay Mammadzada Vera Menchik Microchess Stuart Milner-Barry Mittens (chess) Modern Benoni Paul Morphy Mutilated chessboard problem Anna Muzychuk Ashot Nadanian Play-by-mail game Rook's graph Anna Rudolf Rules of chess Elmer Ernest Southard Howard Staunton Wilhelm Steinitz Turochamp World Chess Championship 1972 Nemo Zhou 0x88 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel Robert Abbott (game designer) Tanitoluwa Adewumi Sergei Azarov Moheschunder Bannerjee Blind Chess Olympiad Reginald Bonham Jirayr Ohanyan Çakır Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw Carlsen–Niemann controversy Chesmac Chess City Chess (poem) Chess tournament Chess World Cup 1988–1989 Chess at the Olympic Games Chess in Armenia Maia Chiburdanidze Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen De ludo scachorum Deep Blue (chess computer) Doping in chess Jorden van Foreest Lucas van Foreest Valentina Golubenko Nikolai Grigoriev Ronen Har-Zvi Hastings International Chess Congress IS 318 Eduardo Iturrizaga Kaissa Stefán Kristjánsson Hans Olav Lahlum Bonar Law Levitsky versus Marshall List of Indian chess players London 1851 chess tournament Los Alamos chess Mac Hack Napoleon Marache Käty van der Mije-Nicolau Mittens (chess) James Mortimer (chess player) Hans Multhopp Mutilated chessboard problem Arthur Ollivier Online chess PRO Chess League Frank Parr Pirc Defence, Austrian Attack Play-by-mail game Margeir Pétursson Queen's Gambit Accepted Queen's graph Charles Ranken Birdie Reeve Kay Rotlewi versus Rubinstein Ylon Schwartz Seirawan chess Wolfgang Uhlmann Umakant Sharma (chess player) Video Chess Way of the Knight William Wayte World Chess Championship 1886 World Chess Hall of Fame Carissa Yip Savo Zlatić 39th Chess Olympiad 40th Chess Olympiad 41st Chess Olympiad 42nd Chess Olympiad 43rd Chess Olympiad 44th Chess Olympiad 45th Chess Olympiad Pal Benko Arianne Caoili Magnus Carlsen World Chess Championship 2018 Jorge Cori Richard K. Guy Demis Hassabis Carol Jarecki Viktor Korchnoi William Lombardy Daniel Naroditsky Open event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad Serzh Sargsyan Sander Severino Mark Taimanov Jan Timman Wolfgang Uhlmann Viswanathan Anand Women's event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad World Chess Championship 2010 World Chess Championship 2012 World Chess Championship 2014 World Chess Championship 2016 World Chess Championship 2021 World Chess Championship 2023 World Chess Championship 2024Biographies of living people in chess articles that lack references can be seen here:
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