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Chess articles which need work

• List of chess periodicals - get rid of the table format; lots of good work to do here
• Bio's on all chess players ever in the top 100 FIDE
• Create missing national championships: Chess around the world
• Important tournaments: See User:Quale, Bugojno chess tournament, OHRA chess tournament, Rashid Nezhmetdinov Memorial, Carlsbad chess tournament, Ostend international chess tournament, Essent chess tournament, Anatoly Karpov chess tournament, Alexander Alekhine Memorial, Bilbao chess tournament and already in polish wikipedia: Banja Luka chess tournament, Bosna chess tournament, Malaga Open chess tournament, Boris Kostić Memorial, Józef Dominik Memorial, Józef Kochan Memorial, Tadeusz Gniota Memorial, Vasja Pirc Memorial, NATO chess tournament, Montreal chess tournament, Pamplona chess tournament (Ciudad de Pamplona), Poikovsky chess tournament, Politiken CUP (Copenhagen Chess Festival), Rilton Cup, Sigeman & Co chess tournament. German wikipedia: Neckar open chess tournament, Mainz chess tournament

. If there are other important tournaments with a good number of editions, feel free to add them to this list.

References

Biographies

• Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, ISBN  0-7864-2353-6

General

• Burgess, Graham (2000), The Mammoth Book of Chess, Carroll & Graf Publishers, ISBN  0-7867-0725-9
• Golombek, Harry, ed. (1977), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Batsford, ISBN  0-517-53146-1
• Golombek, Harry, ed. (1981), The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Chess, Penguin Books, ISBN  978-0140464528
• Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1992), The Oxford Companion to Chess (second ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN  0-19-280049-3
• Sunnucks, Anne (1970), The Encyclopedia of Chess, St. Martin's Press, LCCN  78106371
• Divinsky, Nathan (1991), The Chess Encyclopedia, Facts on File, ISBN  978-0816026418
• Divinsky, Nathan (1990), The Batsford Chess Encyclopedia, Batsford, London, ISBN  978-0713462142

Chess Dictionaries

• Brace, Edward R. (1977), An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess, Hamlyn Publishing Group, ISBN  1-55521-394-4
• Horton, Byrne Joseph (1959), Dictionary of modern chess, Owen, ISBN  0-8022-0746-4
• Pandolfini, Bruce (1996), Chess Thinking: The Visual Dictionary of Chess Moves, Rules, Strategies and Concepts (Fireside Chess Library), Everyman Chess, ISBN  1-85744-480-9
• Zelepukhin, N. P. (1982), Dictionary of Chess, French & European Pubns, ISBN  0-8288-2350-2

Chess Results

• Whyld, Ken (1986), Chess: The Records, Guinness Books, ISBN  0-85112-455-0
• Kuiper, P. Feenstra (1967), Hundert Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, Amsterdam
• Gaige, Jeremy (1969), Chess Tournament Crosstables: Vol I: 1851-1900, Philadelphia
• Gaige, Jeremy (1971), Chess Tournament Crosstables: Vol I: 1901-1910, Philadelphia
• Gaige, Jeremy (1972), Chess Tournament Crosstables: Vol I: 1911-1920, Philadelphia
• Gaige, Jeremy (1974), Chess Tournament Crosstables: Vol I: 1921-1930, Philadelphia
• Gaige, Jeremy (1985), Chess Tournaments - A Checklist: Vol I: 1849-1950, Philadelphia
• Gaige, Jeremy (1985), Chess Tournaments - A Checklist: Vol II: 1951-1980, Philadelphia
• Melton, Richard (1997), The Complete Book of Chess Tournament Crosstables Vol 1: 1851-1948, Fountain Hill, AZ : Ram Enterprises, Ltd.
• Melton, Richard (1997), The Complete Book of Chess Tournament Crosstables Vol 2: 1949-1967, Fountain Hill, AZ : Ram Enterprises, Ltd.
• Di Felice, Gino (2004), Chess Results, 1747-1900: A Comprehensive Record with 465 Tournaments Crosstables and 590 Match Scores, McFarland, ISBN  978-0786420414
• Di Felice, Gino (2006), Chess Results, 1901-1920: A Comprehensive Record with 860 Tournament Crosstables and 375 Match Scores, McFarland, ISBN  978-0786423620
• Di Felice, Gino (2006), Chess Results, 1921-1930: A Comprehensive Record with 940 Tournament Crosstables and 210 Match Scores, McFarland, ISBN  978-0786426423
• Di Felice, Gino (2006), Chess Results, 1931-1935: A Comprehensive Record with 1,065 Tournament Crosstables and 190 Match Scores, McFarland, ISBN  978-0786427239
• Di Felice, Gino (2007), Chess Results, 1936-1940: A Comprehensive Record with 990 Tournament Crosstables and 125 Match Scores, McFarland, ISBN  978-0786427482
• Iclicki, Willy (2002), FIDE Golden Book 1924-2002

Web Resources on chess tournaments (feel free to add good ones)

• http://www.al20102007.narod.ru/index.html Rusbase, an incredible amount of information, games and crosstables
• http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/ Brasilbase, a lot information on strong tournaments and world championships, full crosstables and games
• http://www.thechesslibrary.com/crosstableindex.html Another crosstable site, not as large as the others
• http://www3.sympatico.ca/g.giffen/chess.html Winners from Super Tournament Series', the 100 strongest tournaments in the history of chess, zonal tournaments, ...
• http://www.edochess.ca/index.html Lots of results from matches 1800-1900
• www.worldchesslinks.net Good information and full crosstables of strong tournaments (currently blacklisted :( )
• http://pagesperso-orange.fr/eric.delaire/Monde/Palmares.htm Lots of tournaments of strong tournaments
• http://www.rookhouse.com/events.html A good site, with info on major tournaments, good blog as well
• http://www.endgame.nl/ Good information on strong tournament series
• http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk A lot of crosstables 1930-1950

Translation tools

• http://translate.google.com/ Google translation, Common languages Chinese, Spanish, Russian, German, etc..
• http://www.systran.co.uk/english-polish-translation/free-online-polish-to-english-translator.htm A good polish translator and some other smaller languages
• http://translit.cc/ Good for transliteration (Cyrillic)
• http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php Has a very good collection of east European languages

Wikipedia tools

• http://toolserver.org/~magnus/index.html Superb collection!!
• http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/tstoc Interiot's list of tools
• http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php Category intersect
• http://toolserver.org/~flacus/IWLC/ Interlanguage checking (in case I get bored)
• http://toolserver.org/~magnus/commonshelper.php?interface=en moving images from other wikis

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