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Good article reassessment for Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine 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. Z1720 (talk) 02:46, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Reviewed articles

I would like to update this, by adding a featured list, removing two former good articles that have been delisted, and adding four good articles. I anticipate that this will be an editor's nightmare. Would anyone object if I first separated the list of FAs from the list of GAs, and then made the list of GAs easier to edit, by either changing it to one-column format, or taking it out of table format altogether? Bruce leverett (talk) 01:06, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

I see that the present format was adopted 'way back in 2009, by some editors who are not heavily active in chess-related article any more. I will carry out my proposed change, but document it in the talk page of that article, rather than here.

Also, after reviewing the instructions for creating Wikipedia tables, I have figured out how to distribute the Good Articles into two columns, without having to redistribute them by hand every time one adds or removes an entry from the table. So I will do that, rather than changing into one-column format or taking it out of table format altogether. Bruce leverett (talk) 21:03, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

It has been pointed out to me that Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Reviewed articles is an obsolete early version of Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Recognized content, and that WP:Chess transcludes both of them. The right thing for me to do, therefore, is just delete the former version and remove the transclusion of it. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused by the above paragraphs. Bruce leverett (talk) 14:40, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen 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. Z1720 (talk) 17:13, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Classical chess

Until now, this page redirected to just chess. But in common chess parlance, the term "classical chess" usually refers to long time controls, the opposite of fast chess, which has a dedicated article. After some deliberation, I've retargeted it to glossary of chess § classical, which is a bit more appropriate, but should this be its own article? The history of classical chess is currently not adequately covered anywhere on Wikipedia. 9ninety (talk) 07:50, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Draft:World Student Team Chess Championship

Hi, this looks like a worthy article, but we need to get some sources together to demonstrate notability. Certainly many world class GMs participated in the event between 1954 and 1977. Kazic's "International Championship Chess" (1972) is a solid source but dated (it only covers events up to 1972), while Olimpbase faces the self-published objection, though we have found it to be reliable and useful over the years. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 05:04, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Can list of chess openings be redeemed?

List of chess openings has always been bad, but can it be redeemed? I would have nominated the list for deletion years ago if I thought there was any realistic chance it could be deep sixed to put it and us out of misery. I think Max has expressed concerns about this page as well. Quale (talk) 18:48, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Looking at both the edit history and the talk page, I guess it has gone through several stages. The present stage looks too unwieldy, not to mention unsourced. But was there an earlier stage when it was more plausible than it is now?

I might also ask: since Wikipedia has its own ideas of what a "List" article should look like, is it possible to fit the chess openings into that model? Bruce leverett (talk) 19:24, 8 June 2025 (UTC)