User talk:Sophia91

World Youth Chess Championship‎
Thanks a lot for fixing the several mistakes I made in the spelling of the names! Btw, do you have any sources on the older editions? I think most of these youth championships started in 1983-1984. Happy editing! Voorlandt 15:36, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Chess in China
You added to Xie Jun, but that list is for active players only. You can refer to the official FIDE rating list:


 * http://www.fide.com/ratings/topfed.phtml?ina=1&country=CHN

Thanks. Hermant patel (talk) 10:45, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
I think you've been the most prolific chess editor for many months, and your work has really improved coverage of chess on Wikipedia. I don't think I've said thanks to you before, so thanks. Quale (talk) 02:54, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

For info
Hi Sophia. Please see this about a certain IP editor. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 14:21, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Nino Batsiashvili
Could you explain that edit to me? Strange she was on the FIDE list of applicants and I can see she was not approved. But the linked source dates after that and talks about a recent final norm. She probably will be approved GM next congress then. See this and that which was retweeted by FIDE. -Koppapa (talk) 14:41, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I didn't find the retweet by FIDE, anyway no, her title will not be approved the next congress, unless she gets two more norms. That's because she has just one valid GM norm so far (the one from Isle of Man). I took a look at her application: the first norm is from the Women's European Championship 2015, where she met only 2 GMs instead of 4 or more over 11 rounds; the second norm is from the last stage of the last Women's Grand Prix series, where one lost game and one drawn were deleted, but in fact only won games can be deleted for norm purposes. You can find these rules on the FIDE website, in the handbook. Sophia91 (talk) 21:00, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for explaining. Nice insight. Retweet i mean was from WOMChess though that was a FIDE account too. -Koppapa (talk) 06:26, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Kaido Külaots
Hi, per Template:Infobox person Place of birth: city, administrative region, sovereign state. Soviet union never had sovereignty over Baltic states. See Occupation of the Baltic states. People born in France 1940–1944 are not listed as born in German Reich. All Estonian BLP use just Estonia as birth place. State continuity of the Baltic states: the resistance by the Baltic people to the Soviet regime (Guerrilla war in the Baltic states), and the uninterrupted functioning of state organs in exile (Baltic Legations (1940–1991)) support the legal position that sovereign title never passed to the Soviet Union, which implied that occupation lasted until re-independence in 1991 and thus the Baltic states continued to exist as subjects of international law (Welles Declaration). --Klõps (talk) 22:06, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

GM
Hello. What is the reason for rewording 'chess grandmaster' in biographies to 'chess player ... awarded the title grandmaster'? Hrodvarsson (talk) 02:41, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, there is more than one reason. First is consistency. While grandmaster is quite intuitive to non-chess readers, it can't be said for the other titles and this led to several new biographies starting with "[name of the player] is a [their FIDE title, even the 'lower' ones]". "chess player" is also more encyclopedic I would say, in other languages chess players' biographies don't say "a chess grandmaster", but firstly "a chess player". In think starting chess biographies with "X is a chess player. He/she was awarded the title [whatever] by FIDE in [year]" is more consistent and encyclopedic. Also the word grandmaster is repeated 2-3 times in some leads (eg. "X is a chess garndamster". He is the youngest grandmaster in his contry/he is a chess prodigy/he is the first grandmaster in his country/he became a grandmaster in [date]"). Sophia91 (talk) 10:36, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the explanation. Maybe it should be discussed at the chess wikiproject to develop a manual of style, as I think there should be consistency across the articles where possible. Hrodvarsson (talk) 04:25, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Susan Polgár
This may be better than hitting the "thank" button five times. Thank you for doing the necessary research to improve the article about Susan Polgár. It was long overdue. In addition, I did not know until I read your changes that she had transferred to Hungary this year! Bruce leverett (talk) 02:04, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

crystal seeds
Hi -- thanks for your comments in the edit summary here. I wasn't aware that the live ratings are considered unofficial.

However, if I understand your comment correctly, you're saying that the edit would also violate WP:BALL if I do it in November based on the official November ratings. Why is that? It's immediate from the regulations where the players with the top four ratings will be seeded:

"5. 5. 2. Four (4) seeded players having the highest standard rating at the beginning of the tournament are given starting numbers 1, 8, 9 and 16 as shown in Article 5.5.1. If two (2) or more players have the same standard rating, they are seeded according to their position in the latest FIDE Standard Rating List."

What's speculative about showing this in the table? The WP:BALL policy says: "Individual scheduled or expected future events should be included only if the event is notable and almost certain to take place." The event of the players being seeded as prescribed by the regulations is as certain to take place as other events listed as appropriate examples in the policy (future presidential elections and Olympics).

Joriki (talk) 17:52, 24 October 2019 (UTC)


 * No, if you did the edit in November, then it would have been fine, you shouldn't seed the players before November ratings are out. Live ratings are calculated by a random person on the internet for fun (and aren't always accurate nor complete), at official level they significance is zero (except when applying for FIDE titles). I cited WP:CRYSTALBALL because what if –highly improbable but theoretically possible– one or more players withdraw? Or play some event(s) no one knows in advance which is FIDE-rated (and also counted for November list? My point was that the seeding should be done after FIDE officially publishes the new rating lists. Sophia91 (talk) 19:21, 24 October 2019 (UTC)


 * OK, cool, thanks for the reply, I'll do it when the November lists are published, then. Joriki (talk) 05:50, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Bad Firouzja edits
Hi Sophia. Thank you for your work creating bios for various chess players. Please can you watch the Alireza Firouzja page and the edits by Ali mjr? Now that the boy is becoming more popular, it seems some people are just wrecking his wiki page with bad edits. Thanks! (Exxcalibur808) 11:11, 29 December 2019‎ (UTC) (date added by Sophia91 (talk) 23:04, 2 July 2020 (UTC))


 * Hello Unfortunately I only saw your message on my personal user page today and decided to move it onto my talk page. Since users don't get notifications when another user leaves a message on their user's page, I suggest you write here next time, thanks. Sophia91 (talk) 23:04, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Endorsed PROD
Since you "endorsed" a PROD that I just contested on the grounds that the original reason given (by Another Believer) was not a valid one, if you still want that page deleted for the reasons you gave, please add a new PROD tag with the reasons you think are valid. (I did not mean to contest the reasons you gave, but since I removed the original PROD, I had to remove your endorsement, as well.) - dcljr (talk) 00:08, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Someone's already re-tagged it as G11. - dcljr (talk) 01:16, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * …And it's been redirected. - dcljr (talk) 23:27, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Chess AfDs
Hi Sophia! Would it be too much to ask for you to update WikiProject Chess every time you nominate a chess-related article for deletion? Cheers, Cobblet (talk) 14:13, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I thought WikiProject_Chess was enough, but ok, I will do it in the future. Sophia91 (talk) 16:04, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. It did not occur to me to put the Article Alerts page on my watchlist. I've done so now. Not sure how many others have though. Cobblet (talk) 14:31, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

peak ranking for Alexander Khalifman
Hi – thanks for all your work on articles about chess players! I see that you added the peak ranking No. 12 for Alexander Khalifman in this edit. He was No. 10 in July 1991 according to this list. I was wondering whether you just missed that or whether you had some reason not to use that source? Joriki (talk) 20:29, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I've changed it now but would still be interested in your source. Joriki (talk) 06:58, 31 July 2021 (UTC)