User talk:Ikaria

World Junior Chess Championship
Thanks for your fixes to the Girls U-20 results. It's hard to find accurate information on the girls events, and most of the printed references used by the page predate the establishment of the girls championship. Quale 02:56, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Yugoslav Chess Championship
Thanks for your work on Yugoslav Chess Championship. It looks to me like the event numbers don't match up with what our sources say. For example, http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables10.htm indicates that the 1939 championship is the 4th, but our table says 5th. TWIC 231 - 12th April 1999 has the 1999 championship as the 54th and says it was halted due to NATO bombing. Our page has the championship as the 59th. Do you know how we should reconcile this? Quale 20:05, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 * You're doing great and really helping out. Take your time, and I hope you enjoy yourself here—your contributions are appreciated.  We can talk about what we should do with the Yugoslav Chess Championship page on its talk page, Talk:Yugoslav Chess Championship.  Off the top of my head, one idea would be to use two subsections in the article, and put a small table with the first 5 championships in a Before WW II section and then a larger table in an After WW II section.  If the championship has a split numbering, that might make sense, and it gives a good opportunity to explain what happened.  I think articles with reasonbly sized sections are easier to read rather than really long tables or blocks of text.  An example of an article that is sort of set up that way is U.S. Chess Championship.  Before 1936, the U.S. Championship wasn't really under the control of a central chess organization.  It was thought to belong to the current champion, in the same way that the World Chess Championship was before FIDE (and again when Kasparov quit FIDE).  The U.S. Championship page is not very good right now and the Yugoslav Championship page is already better in a lot of ways, which means I should get to work to fix the U.S. page. Quale 22:02, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Voorlandt posted an idea about separate pages for championships of Serbia and Montenegro on the Talk:Yugoslav Chess Championship page. If you have an opinion, feel free to respond there.  Thanks. Quale 20:45, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Alisa Maric
Alisa Maric is more good work. I think its the best-written and referenced new chess biography that we've had recently. Quale 18:15, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Acording to recomendations from Importance assessment: Chess persons I think that this article should be rated as mid-Importance at least. Any opinions? Ikaria (talk) 18:46, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Youth Chess Championships
Hi Ikaria,

Thanks for helping out on World Youth Chess Championship! Now all is complete 1988-2007. I was wondering if you could help with the following:
 * You wouldn't happen to know the winners of the 1987 edition, I think it was played for all age categories. I have a couple of men's winners: U12 Hedinn Steengrimsson, U14 ?? Markovic U18 Gustavo Hernandez. Would be great if we could complete 1987 as well.
 * Do you know who won the girls U16 in 1983? The first edition, 1982 was won by Susan Polgar. If we get the girls U16 in 1983 then U16 is complete! (the boys I have from the first edition in 1974 onwards complete, just haven't entered it).
 * About the World Junior Chess Championship U20 girls: According to and  Fliura Khasanova won the first Junior U20 for girls in 1983, but our list starts from 1985. Here is another link confirming that there were champinships in 1983 and 1984 . Do you know who won it in 1984? Voorlandt 10:52, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

I am glad to be able to help a little bit. I got informations from friends who played those tournaments (Girls section). I will try to refresh their memory about missing parts and to check some chess magazines from that time.Ikaria 19:47, 24 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot, that would be a real help. Especially info from magazines can be really useful. From memory can be good, in the sense that once the winner is known, it is easier to verify the info. Best wishes. Voorlandt 20:50, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

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