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What is the difference between Decoy (chess) and Attraction (chess)? The definitions in those articles look almost the same. Or are these the same topic (in which case the articles should be merged)? — Mx. Granger ( talk · contribs) 02:34, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Finished w/ a set of article improvements, then also resolved best as feasible a conflict between glossary entires decoy & deflection (where Pandolfini describes deflection as "an inverse" of decoy, but that's inconsistent w/ Hooper & Whyld entry, which implies also the Pandolfini def). Was about to define a REDIRECT for "Deflection" to Decoy, but alas!, we already have a stand-alone on deflection. If Hooper & Whyld's decoy is accepted, then there's no real distinction between decoy & deflection, and so the current article Deflection (chess) s/ also, same as the attraction article, be merged. (Yes? No?) -- IHTS ( talk) 10:32, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
If yes, Mx. Granger plz perform the merge. ;) -- IHTS ( talk) 10:53, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
I truly hate this article but my attempts to get it deleted have been unsuccessful. "Gambit" is not a useful classification for chess openings, some like the "Queen's Gambit" are not really gambits, and some lines that involve sacrificing material are not conventionally described as gambits. Anyway I've eviscerated it of all unsourced lines. I've probably thrown out a few babies with the bathwater but I'm fed up with the lines that someone on chess.com played last week getting listed with no source. MaxBrowne2 ( talk) 14:51, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
@ The Master of Hedgehogs: It takes more than a cute name to get into Wikipedia. Do you have a reliable source for this? I acknowledge that the criteria for notability for chess variants might have nuances that I am not familiar with. Bruce leverett ( talk) 21:56, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
Perhaps members of this wikiproject would be interested in assessing the newly created articles Fool (chess), Chessplus, and Wizard (chess) to see if they plausibly meet any notability guidelines. -- JBL ( talk) 00:07, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
I decided to kickstart an article for this chess variant which was invented by GM Kramnik in 2019. It was previously explored by Deepmind, and an annual NC tournament has been held in Dortmund for 3 years, won by GM Caruana this year. If anyone is interested, I encourage you to contribute and expand this article. Thanks, 9ninety ( talk) 05:42, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Larsen's Opening#Requested move 26 July 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. SilverLocust 💬 11:47, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
WP:NCHESS says "A chess player is presumed to meet the general notability guideline if he or she ... has been awarded the title of grandmaster." That linked article, Grandmaster (chess) gives multiple definitions of "grandmaster" in the lead:
So which meaning of "grandmaster" does WP:NCHESS mean? Only the first one? Does a Woman Grandmaster qualify? How about a Chess Composition Grandmaster, or an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster? Would those qualify? -- GRuban ( talk) 02:51, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
I propose we move this article to "FIDE World Chess Cup 2023". This is the title used in the official website [1], and would be consistent with the other world championship cycle tournaments FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 and FIDE Grand Prix 2022, and also FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022. However, considering that we don't call it the "FIDE World Chess Championship" even if they insist, it still makes sense to change "Chess World Cup" to "World Chess Cup", which seems to be the actual name of the event. There's also an argument for "FIDE World Cup", which is what it is almost exclusively referred to by FIDE and even other sources [2] [3], and if we're keeping consistency with the FIFA World Cup for example. However that event is obviously much more recognizable and such a title would make it unclear that this is a chess tournament. Any thoughts? 9ninety ( talk) 15:08, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
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There is a draft at Draft:2023 FIDE Circuit, but it is a bit on the light side for references to establish general notability. If an editor from this project could find and add some, that would be great. Newystats ( talk) 08:50, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about the GOAT issue here: Talk:Magnus Carlsen#GOAT again. Khiikiat ( talk) 19:09, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
There was a proposal to merge the articles Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation with Sicilian Defence, Accelerated Dragon. The discussion was inactive and there was a clear consensus not to merge so I closed it. I edited Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Article alerts to remove the proposal, but the bot keeps readding it. I don't want to get into an edit war with a bot, how do I get it to stop doing that? MaxBrowne2 ( talk) 09:45, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi all, any suggestions/recommendations for the best biographies out there? Personal biogs rather than just dissection of his games, or perhaps, his life around his chess puts it better. Thanks in advance for any assistance! SN54129 17:36, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:R Praggnanandhaa#Requested move 28 August 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 11:26, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
I am trying to make Draft:Einstein versus Oppenheimer into the main space. The user that reviewed the draft asked me to write here to get an additional perspective. Could experienced user here take a look at it and provide some feedback?-- ReyHahn ( talk) 14:54, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
Hey WikiProject chess! I'm in need of a bit of help with the Mikhail Chigorin Club draft article. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
The Master of Hedgehogs is back again! 21:02, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Just a brief note to say that there is currently a discussion taking place at the Owen's Defence talk page regarding whether or not the Owen's Defence article should be dominated by a very long section on an obscure subvariation (the Matovinsky Gambit). To avoid a situation where the section is being removed and reinstated it would be useful if other editors could drop by and give their opinions so that a consensus can be reached on how best to proceed. Many thanks, Axad12 ( talk) 06:03, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello all,
Is there interest in maintaining Portal:Chess ? Should it be kept? Or perhaps quietly redirected to Portal:Games, or brought up for WP:MFD? It doesn't appear to have been maintained much in the past few years. It has 9,404 incoming links, a huge amount, but only 20-40 hits per day ( pageview stats). That is a truly miserable amount of pageviews for something so highly linked. And since a Portal is just a meta-tool rather than an article itself, a lack of pageviews is concerning in a way that an article on an obscure chess player having low pageviews isn't.
As a bit of backstory, there were some bitter Portal debates back in 2019 that tried to cleanup a proliferation of created-and-abandoned portals. To the extent there's anything useful on the Portal page, it can become part of this Wikiproject's pages instead, or perhaps part of Outline of chess.
I bring this up because there's a concurrent debate at the Video Games Wikiproject about possibly deprecating their portal (see WT:VG) that currently has near-unanimous support for deprecation, but it might be slightly awkward to propose that for deletion while there are still other unmaintained gaming-related Portals with even fewer views. But if several WikiProjects agree that it's not worth it at the same time and explicitly say that they don't want their Portal anymore, that might resolve any "consistency" arguments. (Or, alternatively, make clear that there is a difference of opinion.) Regardless, I think it's a good idea on the merits to deprecate the chess Portal - it was a fine idea Back In The Day that just didn't work out. SnowFire ( talk) 23:40, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
which would be the better name for a template, Template:French_chess_grandmasters, or Template:Polish GMs? ping me if you respond. Masohpotato ( talk) 01:57, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
In World Chess Solving Championship it seems that the formulas for rating calculation are inconsistent with the formulas used in the wfcc website. Also see Talk:World Chess Solving Championship. The user who has put the formulas there is no longer active. Bob.v.R ( talk) 07:59, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
USSR Women's Chess Championship has this citation for everything: "All data have been kindly provided by Alexey Popovsky, owner of the website Rusbase." That link is to a website that has quite a lot of information about Soviet and Russian tournaments, but not, as far as I can tell, information about the Women's championships of either Russia or the Soviet Union. Can someone show me what I'm missing, or possibly point me to another website? Bruce leverett ( talk) 03:14, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kingpin (chess magazine). AndyTheGrump ( talk) 22:01, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Shogi § Tsume. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 22:56, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello WikiProject Chess, I need some help. I've been working on the 2023 IBSA World Games page - I've got most of the sports covered but I don't understand chess well enough to write about it with any confidence. Would someone be interested in helping out?
It wouldn't need to be more than a paragraph and I've got scorecards and some sources. [2] [3] [4] MsJoat ( talk) 11:45, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
We have thousands of articles about chess players. Materialscientist has unilaterally taken it upon himself to genderize every chess player by nationality category, so Category:American chess players becomes Category:American male chess players, Category:German chess players becomes Category:German male chess players etc. This is completely unnecessary and creates a lot of work. It was evidently a unilateral decision by this editor, who is also an admin. I have tried raising it on his talk page but no luck so far. MaxBrowne2 ( talk) 16:03, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
I recently made a series of edits that greatly expanded the pawn storm article. Beforehand, it was a very short stub and evaluated as a stub under the content assessment rating chart. However, I took it upon myself to expand the article, and now, there's a greater amount of information than there was before. I also added several more sources to support the information I added and added another example game from the Classical World Chess Championship 1995. Is it possible to have the article reevaluated to perhaps increase it from stub to another rating (or keep it as a stub if it is still found to be too short, which I don't think will be the case)? SonOfYoutubers ( talk) 00:18, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
What is the shortcut that I would link in my user page to signify I am a member of WP:CHESS like I have done with WPVG on User:AcecatYT? Acecat ( talk) 15:08, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Is there a standard format for match and tournament scores? The Chess scoring article was using an en dash for A–B type scores (though in the table the en dash had spaces either side, while the example used an unspaced minus sign instead of a dash...), and it also used en dashes for plus/minus scores, instead of the hyphen-minus or minus sign characters. For now I've switched that article to use to unspaced en dashes for dashes, and minus sign characters for minus signs, but I can't see anything about score formats in the Wikiproject conventions section; one option would be to expand the scope of the "Half points" subsection to something like "Scores and half points"? -- Yodin T 17:54, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
I made the Nelson M. Lopez article on the national master, but it has not been evaluated on the content assessment rating, so would it be possible to have that done? Thank you! SonOfYoutubers ( talk) 00:49, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
I think Lopez is probably notable, but as a YouTuber, not as a chess player. I respect it was done in good faith, but his chess career can probably he trimmed down some in the article - even for the Kasparovs of the world, the super-early tournaments while 9 years old generally aren't that interesting, it can be assumed anyone who hit NM probably won some low-level tournaments. SnowFire ( talk) 04:39, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
I kind of wanted to save this article but in the end I couldn't justify it. Go to the deletion discussion and state your case. MaxBrowne2 ( talk) MaxBrowne2 ( talk) 23:58, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
A lot of articles on mating patterns were recently edited to add the definite article "the" before the names of checkmate patterns. I strongly disagree with this and have accordingly removed it from Fool's mate and scholar's mate. Both of these are universally treated as already-definite by virtually every chess book. This applies to virtually all checkmate patterns named after people (including generic classes such as fools and scholars). I want to see the reasoning behind this ill-advised change and if not, I will find and revert it all. Jasper Deng (talk) 10:48, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Endgame tablebase has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 17:32, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Hey! For the past few days I've been working on eventually getting List of World Chess Championships to featured list quality, and I've finished reformatting the tables. I've made a few specific decisions I'm unsure of (using the score directly instead of W,L,D—so I'd really appreciate the input before I think about copying it over. Thanks in advance! Remsense 留 20:30, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gambit#Requested move 5 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces ( talk) 17:06, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Can someone help me with sources for Draft:Spassky Variation? It's a sound opening, even Carlsen has been known to play it, and it has independent significance. It tends to slip through the cracks in opening coverage. MaxBrowne2 ( talk) 13:44, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
It's one of the worst websites I've ever had to regularly use in almost every other aspect, but generally the quality of the historical material is pretty okay. I suppose it's not a big deal, since its posts usually include further citations for material, but still: is it a weak RS in itself, or should citing it directly be avoided? Remsense 留 04:14, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Proposal is to delete the new category "Chess gambits" and restore all these openings to "Chess openings". Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_January_5#Category:Chess_gambits MaxBrowne2 ( talk) 08:43, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Rules of chess has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 13:08, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
Is it intentional that there has been no Category Woman Candidate Masters and Category:Candidate Masters? While there are not too many CMs with a Wikipedia page, there are quite a few WCMs like Dinah Margaret Norman, Emiko Nakagawa, Marjorie Herrera, Eglantina Shabanaj. There are some CMs too but it will be trickier to find them not a proper query, just for demo.
Would it be okay to go ahead and create them? Konstantina07 ( talk) 13:22, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Is there a standard format for match and tournament scores? The Chess scoring article was using an en dash for A–B type scores (though in the table the en dash had spaces either side, while the example used an unspaced minus sign instead of a dash...), and it also used en dashes for plus/minus scores, instead of the hyphen-minus or minus sign characters. For now I've switched that article to use to unspaced en dashes for dashes, and minus sign characters for minus signs, but I can't see anything about score formats in the Wikiproject conventions section; one option would be to expand the scope of the "Half points" subsection to something like "Scores and half points"? -- Yodin T 17:54, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
What is the difference between Decoy (chess) and Attraction (chess)? The definitions in those articles look almost the same. Or are these the same topic (in which case the articles should be merged)? — Mx. Granger ( talk · contribs) 02:34, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Finished w/ a set of article improvements, then also resolved best as feasible a conflict between glossary entires decoy & deflection (where Pandolfini describes deflection as "an inverse" of decoy, but that's inconsistent w/ Hooper & Whyld entry, which implies also the Pandolfini def). Was about to define a REDIRECT for "Deflection" to Decoy, but alas!, we already have a stand-alone on deflection. If Hooper & Whyld's decoy is accepted, then there's no real distinction between decoy & deflection, and so the current article Deflection (chess) s/ also, same as the attraction article, be merged. (Yes? No?) -- IHTS ( talk) 10:32, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
If yes, Mx. Granger plz perform the merge. ;) -- IHTS ( talk) 10:53, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
I truly hate this article but my attempts to get it deleted have been unsuccessful. "Gambit" is not a useful classification for chess openings, some like the "Queen's Gambit" are not really gambits, and some lines that involve sacrificing material are not conventionally described as gambits. Anyway I've eviscerated it of all unsourced lines. I've probably thrown out a few babies with the bathwater but I'm fed up with the lines that someone on chess.com played last week getting listed with no source. MaxBrowne2 ( talk) 14:51, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
@ The Master of Hedgehogs: It takes more than a cute name to get into Wikipedia. Do you have a reliable source for this? I acknowledge that the criteria for notability for chess variants might have nuances that I am not familiar with. Bruce leverett ( talk) 21:56, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
Perhaps members of this wikiproject would be interested in assessing the newly created articles Fool (chess), Chessplus, and Wizard (chess) to see if they plausibly meet any notability guidelines. -- JBL ( talk) 00:07, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
I decided to kickstart an article for this chess variant which was invented by GM Kramnik in 2019. It was previously explored by Deepmind, and an annual NC tournament has been held in Dortmund for 3 years, won by GM Caruana this year. If anyone is interested, I encourage you to contribute and expand this article. Thanks, 9ninety ( talk) 05:42, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Larsen's Opening#Requested move 26 July 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. SilverLocust 💬 11:47, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
WP:NCHESS says "A chess player is presumed to meet the general notability guideline if he or she ... has been awarded the title of grandmaster." That linked article, Grandmaster (chess) gives multiple definitions of "grandmaster" in the lead:
So which meaning of "grandmaster" does WP:NCHESS mean? Only the first one? Does a Woman Grandmaster qualify? How about a Chess Composition Grandmaster, or an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster? Would those qualify? -- GRuban ( talk) 02:51, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
I propose we move this article to "FIDE World Chess Cup 2023". This is the title used in the official website [1], and would be consistent with the other world championship cycle tournaments FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 and FIDE Grand Prix 2022, and also FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022. However, considering that we don't call it the "FIDE World Chess Championship" even if they insist, it still makes sense to change "Chess World Cup" to "World Chess Cup", which seems to be the actual name of the event. There's also an argument for "FIDE World Cup", which is what it is almost exclusively referred to by FIDE and even other sources [2] [3], and if we're keeping consistency with the FIFA World Cup for example. However that event is obviously much more recognizable and such a title would make it unclear that this is a chess tournament. Any thoughts? 9ninety ( talk) 15:08, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
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There is a draft at Draft:2023 FIDE Circuit, but it is a bit on the light side for references to establish general notability. If an editor from this project could find and add some, that would be great. Newystats ( talk) 08:50, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about the GOAT issue here: Talk:Magnus Carlsen#GOAT again. Khiikiat ( talk) 19:09, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
There was a proposal to merge the articles Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation with Sicilian Defence, Accelerated Dragon. The discussion was inactive and there was a clear consensus not to merge so I closed it. I edited Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Article alerts to remove the proposal, but the bot keeps readding it. I don't want to get into an edit war with a bot, how do I get it to stop doing that? MaxBrowne2 ( talk) 09:45, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi all, any suggestions/recommendations for the best biographies out there? Personal biogs rather than just dissection of his games, or perhaps, his life around his chess puts it better. Thanks in advance for any assistance! SN54129 17:36, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:R Praggnanandhaa#Requested move 28 August 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 11:26, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
I am trying to make Draft:Einstein versus Oppenheimer into the main space. The user that reviewed the draft asked me to write here to get an additional perspective. Could experienced user here take a look at it and provide some feedback?-- ReyHahn ( talk) 14:54, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
Hey WikiProject chess! I'm in need of a bit of help with the Mikhail Chigorin Club draft article. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
The Master of Hedgehogs is back again! 21:02, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Just a brief note to say that there is currently a discussion taking place at the Owen's Defence talk page regarding whether or not the Owen's Defence article should be dominated by a very long section on an obscure subvariation (the Matovinsky Gambit). To avoid a situation where the section is being removed and reinstated it would be useful if other editors could drop by and give their opinions so that a consensus can be reached on how best to proceed. Many thanks, Axad12 ( talk) 06:03, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello all,
Is there interest in maintaining Portal:Chess ? Should it be kept? Or perhaps quietly redirected to Portal:Games, or brought up for WP:MFD? It doesn't appear to have been maintained much in the past few years. It has 9,404 incoming links, a huge amount, but only 20-40 hits per day ( pageview stats). That is a truly miserable amount of pageviews for something so highly linked. And since a Portal is just a meta-tool rather than an article itself, a lack of pageviews is concerning in a way that an article on an obscure chess player having low pageviews isn't.
As a bit of backstory, there were some bitter Portal debates back in 2019 that tried to cleanup a proliferation of created-and-abandoned portals. To the extent there's anything useful on the Portal page, it can become part of this Wikiproject's pages instead, or perhaps part of Outline of chess.
I bring this up because there's a concurrent debate at the Video Games Wikiproject about possibly deprecating their portal (see WT:VG) that currently has near-unanimous support for deprecation, but it might be slightly awkward to propose that for deletion while there are still other unmaintained gaming-related Portals with even fewer views. But if several WikiProjects agree that it's not worth it at the same time and explicitly say that they don't want their Portal anymore, that might resolve any "consistency" arguments. (Or, alternatively, make clear that there is a difference of opinion.) Regardless, I think it's a good idea on the merits to deprecate the chess Portal - it was a fine idea Back In The Day that just didn't work out. SnowFire ( talk) 23:40, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
which would be the better name for a template, Template:French_chess_grandmasters, or Template:Polish GMs? ping me if you respond. Masohpotato ( talk) 01:57, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
In World Chess Solving Championship it seems that the formulas for rating calculation are inconsistent with the formulas used in the wfcc website. Also see Talk:World Chess Solving Championship. The user who has put the formulas there is no longer active. Bob.v.R ( talk) 07:59, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
USSR Women's Chess Championship has this citation for everything: "All data have been kindly provided by Alexey Popovsky, owner of the website Rusbase." That link is to a website that has quite a lot of information about Soviet and Russian tournaments, but not, as far as I can tell, information about the Women's championships of either Russia or the Soviet Union. Can someone show me what I'm missing, or possibly point me to another website? Bruce leverett ( talk) 03:14, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kingpin (chess magazine). AndyTheGrump ( talk) 22:01, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Shogi § Tsume. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 22:56, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello WikiProject Chess, I need some help. I've been working on the 2023 IBSA World Games page - I've got most of the sports covered but I don't understand chess well enough to write about it with any confidence. Would someone be interested in helping out?
It wouldn't need to be more than a paragraph and I've got scorecards and some sources. [2] [3] [4] MsJoat ( talk) 11:45, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
We have thousands of articles about chess players. Materialscientist has unilaterally taken it upon himself to genderize every chess player by nationality category, so Category:American chess players becomes Category:American male chess players, Category:German chess players becomes Category:German male chess players etc. This is completely unnecessary and creates a lot of work. It was evidently a unilateral decision by this editor, who is also an admin. I have tried raising it on his talk page but no luck so far. MaxBrowne2 ( talk) 16:03, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
I recently made a series of edits that greatly expanded the pawn storm article. Beforehand, it was a very short stub and evaluated as a stub under the content assessment rating chart. However, I took it upon myself to expand the article, and now, there's a greater amount of information than there was before. I also added several more sources to support the information I added and added another example game from the Classical World Chess Championship 1995. Is it possible to have the article reevaluated to perhaps increase it from stub to another rating (or keep it as a stub if it is still found to be too short, which I don't think will be the case)? SonOfYoutubers ( talk) 00:18, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
What is the shortcut that I would link in my user page to signify I am a member of WP:CHESS like I have done with WPVG on User:AcecatYT? Acecat ( talk) 15:08, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Is there a standard format for match and tournament scores? The Chess scoring article was using an en dash for A–B type scores (though in the table the en dash had spaces either side, while the example used an unspaced minus sign instead of a dash...), and it also used en dashes for plus/minus scores, instead of the hyphen-minus or minus sign characters. For now I've switched that article to use to unspaced en dashes for dashes, and minus sign characters for minus signs, but I can't see anything about score formats in the Wikiproject conventions section; one option would be to expand the scope of the "Half points" subsection to something like "Scores and half points"? -- Yodin T 17:54, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
I made the Nelson M. Lopez article on the national master, but it has not been evaluated on the content assessment rating, so would it be possible to have that done? Thank you! SonOfYoutubers ( talk) 00:49, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
I think Lopez is probably notable, but as a YouTuber, not as a chess player. I respect it was done in good faith, but his chess career can probably he trimmed down some in the article - even for the Kasparovs of the world, the super-early tournaments while 9 years old generally aren't that interesting, it can be assumed anyone who hit NM probably won some low-level tournaments. SnowFire ( talk) 04:39, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
I kind of wanted to save this article but in the end I couldn't justify it. Go to the deletion discussion and state your case. MaxBrowne2 ( talk) MaxBrowne2 ( talk) 23:58, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
A lot of articles on mating patterns were recently edited to add the definite article "the" before the names of checkmate patterns. I strongly disagree with this and have accordingly removed it from Fool's mate and scholar's mate. Both of these are universally treated as already-definite by virtually every chess book. This applies to virtually all checkmate patterns named after people (including generic classes such as fools and scholars). I want to see the reasoning behind this ill-advised change and if not, I will find and revert it all. Jasper Deng (talk) 10:48, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Endgame tablebase has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 17:32, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Hey! For the past few days I've been working on eventually getting List of World Chess Championships to featured list quality, and I've finished reformatting the tables. I've made a few specific decisions I'm unsure of (using the score directly instead of W,L,D—so I'd really appreciate the input before I think about copying it over. Thanks in advance! Remsense 留 20:30, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gambit#Requested move 5 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces ( talk) 17:06, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Can someone help me with sources for Draft:Spassky Variation? It's a sound opening, even Carlsen has been known to play it, and it has independent significance. It tends to slip through the cracks in opening coverage. MaxBrowne2 ( talk) 13:44, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
It's one of the worst websites I've ever had to regularly use in almost every other aspect, but generally the quality of the historical material is pretty okay. I suppose it's not a big deal, since its posts usually include further citations for material, but still: is it a weak RS in itself, or should citing it directly be avoided? Remsense 留 04:14, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Proposal is to delete the new category "Chess gambits" and restore all these openings to "Chess openings". Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_January_5#Category:Chess_gambits MaxBrowne2 ( talk) 08:43, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
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Is it intentional that there has been no Category Woman Candidate Masters and Category:Candidate Masters? While there are not too many CMs with a Wikipedia page, there are quite a few WCMs like Dinah Margaret Norman, Emiko Nakagawa, Marjorie Herrera, Eglantina Shabanaj. There are some CMs too but it will be trickier to find them not a proper query, just for demo.
Would it be okay to go ahead and create them? Konstantina07 ( talk) 13:22, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Is there a standard format for match and tournament scores? The Chess scoring article was using an en dash for A–B type scores (though in the table the en dash had spaces either side, while the example used an unspaced minus sign instead of a dash...), and it also used en dashes for plus/minus scores, instead of the hyphen-minus or minus sign characters. For now I've switched that article to use to unspaced en dashes for dashes, and minus sign characters for minus signs, but I can't see anything about score formats in the Wikiproject conventions section; one option would be to expand the scope of the "Half points" subsection to something like "Scores and half points"? -- Yodin T 17:54, 24 November 2023 (UTC)