Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Randomly opened chess


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The result of the debate was DELETE. Mo0 [ talk ] 16:15, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Randomly opened chess
This does not appear to be a chess variant which has been played much at all. A [Google check] indicated 70 hits, and most appear to be Wikipedia mirrors. The exception is a VFD entry from Wikibooks. From reading the description of the game, the term "randomly opened" seems incorrect as well because the initial placement of pieces is not random. Some chess variants such as Fischer Random Chess, kriegspiel, bughouse chess and suicide chess have entries in sources in independent chess publications such as the Oxford Companion to Chess or are played regularly online on various chess servers. I cannot see any evidence that this variant is not a made-up game and I recommend deletion. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:37, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as unverifiable, possible hoax. I never heard of it either.  Indeed all Google htis point to Wikipedia.  &mdash;Quarl (talk) 2006-01-13 08:53Z 
 * Delete per Quarl. --Terence Ong Talk 15:35, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, little-known or hoax variant. --Squiddy | (squirt ink?)  16:25, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom (and good research on the AfD, btw, Sjakkalle). JDoorjam 23:29, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Quarl. Stifle 01:39, 15 January 2006 (UTC)


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