Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Cleanup listing

About this listing
The listing is based on a database snapshot of 2010-03-12. It contains all articles flagged for cleanup which are tagged with Chess-WikiProject on their talk page.

Based on that data, 3347 articles are assigned to this project, of which 548, or 16.4%, are flagged for cleanup.

The following quality assessment classes were evaluated for this report:

The following importance assessment classes were evaluated for this report:

Featured articles
The project has 4 featured articles. 2 of them, or 50.0%, are flagged for cleanup.

A-Class articles
The project has 1 A-Class articles. None of them is flagged for cleanup.

Good articles
The project has 11 good articles. 2 of them, or 18.2%, are flagged for cleanup.

Top-importance articles
The project has 49 top-importance articles. 26 of them, or 53.1%, are flagged for cleanup.

High-importance articles
The project has 166 high-importance articles. 39 of them, or 23.5%, are flagged for cleanup.

Further entries (summary)
Detail listing is suppressed due to size restrictions.

Accuracy disputes

 * Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya (Mar 2008)
 * Quiescence search (Sep 2008)
 * Deysi Cori (Jan 2010)
 * Philippine chess (Feb 2010)

Article sections to be split

 * Three-dimensional chess (Nov 2009)
 * Computer chess (Mar 2010) «High»
 * First-move advantage in chess (Mar 2010) «FA, High»

Articles contradicting other articles

 * Libro de los juegos

Articles created via the Article Wizard

 * Philippine chess

Articles lacking in-text citations

 * Johann Löwenthal (Feb 2008)
 * Reuben Fine (Mar 2008) «High»
 * Boris Spassky (Dec 2008) «Top»
 * Mephisto (automaton) (Dec 2008)
 * Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Mar 2009)
 * Chess opening (Apr 2009) «Top»
 * European Team Chess Championship (Apr 2009)
 * Flight square (Apr 2009)
 * François-André Danican Philidor (Apr 2009) «Top»
 * Fruit (chess engine) (Apr 2009)
 * Gilberto Hernández Guerrero (Apr 2009)
 * Immortal Game (Apr 2009) «High»
 * Lev Polugaevsky (Apr 2009) «High»
 * Swedish Chess Computer Association (Apr 2009)
 * William John Donaldson (Apr 2009)
 * Zappa (chess) (Apr 2009)
 * Elizabeth Shaughnessy (May 2009)
 * Play-by-mail game (May 2009)
 * László Polgár (Jun 2009)
 * Giuoco Piano (Sep 2009) «High»
 * Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (Nov 2009)
 * Queen's Gambit Declined (Nov 2009) «High»
 * Three-dimensional chess (Nov 2009)
 * Saavedra position (Jan 2010)
 * Chess tactics (Feb 2010) «Top»
 * Discovered attack (Feb 2010) «High»
 * Fork (chess) (Feb 2010) «High»
 * Kenneth Rogoff (Feb 2010)
 * Kung-fu chess (Feb 2010)
 * Mike Goodall (Feb 2010)
 * Overloading (chess) (Feb 2010)
 * Pin (chess) (Feb 2010) «High»
 * Skewer (chess) (Feb 2010) «High»

Articles lacking ISBNs

 * Franz Brentano

Articles lacking reliable references

 * Kamran Shirazi (Aug 2006)
 * Iivo Nei (May 2007)
 * Ariel Sorin (Jun 2007)
 * Herbert Seidman (Jun 2007)
 * Luke McShane (Jun 2007)
 * Peter Lee (chess player) (Jun 2007)
 * Alla Kushnir (Jul 2007)
 * John Roycroft (Jul 2007)
 * Daniel Cámpora (Oct 2007)
 * Larry Bevand (Oct 2007)
 * Lev Gutman (Oct 2007)
 * Martin Mrva (Oct 2007)
 * Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (Oct 2007)
 * Ulf Andersson (Oct 2007)
 * Yasser Seirawan (Oct 2007)
 * Yoshiharu Habu (Oct 2007)
 * Zadok Domnitz (Oct 2007)
 * Dragoljub Janošević (Nov 2007)
 * Duško Pavasovič (Nov 2007)
 * Victor Mikhalevski (Nov 2007)
 * Viktor Gavrikov (Nov 2007)
 * Jacob Murey (Dec 2007)
 * Nikolai Krogius (Dec 2007)
 * Rodolfo Tan Cardoso (Dec 2007)
 * ChessV (Jan 2008)
 * Chess Life (Jan 2008)
 * John-Paul Wallace (Jan 2008)
 * Martin Kreuzer (Jan 2008)
 * Pablo Zarnicki (Jan 2008)
 * Shane's Chess Information Database (Jan 2008)
 * Kevin Spraggett (Mar 2008)
 * Lothar Schmid (Apr 2008)
 * Reinhard Scharnagl (May 2008)
 * Yakov Vilner (Aug 2008)
 * Christian Freeling (Dec 2008)
 * Julian Simpole (Dec 2008)
 * Anatoly Karpov (Jun 2009) «Top»
 * Peter Winston (Aug 2009)
 * Ron Henley (Dec 2009)
 * Tom Kerrigan's Simple Chess Program (Jan 2010)
 * Philippine chess (Feb 2010)

Oct 2006

 * Pawn storm

Nov 2006

 * Jacobus de Cessolis

Dec 2006

 * Candidate move
 * ICCF Belarus
 * ICCF Bulgaria

Jan 2007

 * František Treybal

Mar 2007

 * Chess Informant Expert

Apr 2007

 * Interference (chess)
 * Interzonal «High»
 * New York State Chess Association
 * Prophylaxis (chess)
 * Rest of the world
 * Romantic chess
 * Scholastic chess in the United States
 * Seychelles Chess Championship
 * Undermining (chess)
 * USCF Grand Prix
 * Zepler doubling

May 2007

 * Boris Kogan
 * Chess columns in newspapers
 * Harold Davidson
 * Ilya Kan
 * Mario Napolitano

Jun 2007

 * Augustus Mongredien
 * David Forsyth (chess)
 * GBR code
 * Jean Taubenhaus
 * Keres Defence
 * Leopold Hoffer
 * Lucijs Endzelins
 * Mechanics' Institute Chess Club
 * Play-by-mail game

Jul 2007

 * Overprotection
 * Serafino Dubois

Aug 2007

 * Anthony Santasiere
 * Antonín Novotný (chess composer)
 * Artificial castling
 * Benjamin Blumenfeld
 * Cubic chess
 * ICCF Belgium
 * Jaque
 * Queen's Gambit «High»

Sep 2007

 * Leó Forgács

Oct 2007

 * Chess Centres
 * Null-move heuristic

Nov 2007

 * Davide Marotti
 * IFSB
 * Vidrik Rootare

Dec 2007

 * Chadarangam

Jan 2008

 * Georg Marco
 * Heinrich Reinhardt
 * Philip Hogarty
 * Portable Game Notation
 * X-FEN

Feb 2008

 * George Koltanowski
 * Lego Chess

Mar 2008

 * Bitboard
 * Elo rating system «Top»
 * Four-player chess
 * Isaac Lipnitsky
 * Stanislaus Sittenfeld

Apr 2008

 * Babson task
 * Free Internet Chess Server
 * Isaac Lipnitsky

May 2008

 * Timeline of chess
 * Wilhelm Hanstein

Jun 2008

 * Chess (2006 film)
 * Josef Noa
 * List of people who have beaten Garry Kasparov in chess
 * Richard Teichmann

Jul 2008

 * Chess960 starting position

Aug 2008

 * Opening book
 * Pure mate

Oct 2008

 * Chess at the 1st World Mind Sports Games
 * Chess Bundesliga

Nov 2008

 * List of abstract strategy games

Mar 2009

 * Stealth Chess

May 2009

 * Robin Smith (chess player)

Jun 2009

 * Marseillais chess

Jul 2009

 * Eight queens puzzle solutions
 * X3D Fritz

Oct 2009

 * John Bartlett (publisher)
 * Queen and pawn versus queen endgame

Nov 2009

 * Artificial castling
 * ChessWorld
 * Chess (Northwestern University)
 * International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster

Dec 2009

 * Charles Henry Stanley
 * Chess Live
 * Chess Tiger
 * Chess Titans
 * Composition school
 * Cray Blitz
 * Excelsior (chess problem)
 * Friedrich Amelung
 * Grasshopper (chess piece)
 * Ikarus (chess)
 * Legall de Kermeur
 * Model mate
 * Nancy Roos
 * Neo-Indian Attack
 * Phase of play
 * Popeye (chess)
 * Seriesmover
 * Three checks chess
 * Tivadar Kardos
 * XICS

Jan 2010

 * Fresh (film)
 * Ruy López de Segura
 * Women's World Chess Championship 2010

Mar 2010

 * 31st Chess Olympiad
 * Emil Josef Diemer
 * Erich Zepler

Articles needing additional references

 * Ulster Chess Championship (Dec 2006)
 * Franz Brentano (Apr 2007)
 * Fedor Bogatyrchuk (May 2007)
 * Harold Davidson (May 2007)
 * Nikolai Riumin (May 2007)
 * Alfred William Gyles (Jun 2007)
 * Lembit Oll (Jun 2007)
 * Chess table (Aug 2007)
 * Georg Kieninger (Aug 2007)
 * Géza Füster (Sep 2007)
 * Poisoned Pawn Variation (Sep 2007)
 * Vladimir Nabokov (Sep 2007)
 * Eero Böök (Oct 2007)
 * Igor Platonov (Oct 2007)
 * Vladimir Alatortsev (Oct 2007)
 * Daniel Harrwitz (Dec 2007)
 * Jamaican Chess Championship (Dec 2007)
 * Jiří Pelikán (Dec 2007)
 * Samuel Rosenthal (Dec 2007)
 * Eduard Dyckhoff (Jan 2008)
 * Miguel Cuéllar (Jan 2008)
 * Ed Edmondson (chess official) (Feb 2008)
 * John William Schulten (Feb 2008)
 * Milan Vidmar (Mar 2008)
 * Reuben Fine (Mar 2008) «High»
 * Chess opening (Apr 2008) «Top»
 * Fred Reinfeld (Apr 2008)
 * French Defence (Apr 2008) «High»
 * Gambit (Apr 2008) «High»
 * José Joaquín Araiza (Apr 2008)
 * Mark S. Dutton (Apr 2008)
 * Battle Chess (Jun 2008)
 * Circular chess (Jun 2008)
 * Crazyhouse (Jun 2008)
 * Lev Polugaevsky (Jun 2008) «High»
 * CilkChess (Jul 2008)
 * Mathias Feist (Jul 2008)
 * Paul Keres (Sep 2008) «High»
 * Vladimir Nabokov (Sep 2008)
 * FIDE World Chess Championship 1998 (Oct 2008)
 * Mikhail Chigorin (Oct 2008) «High»
 * Stanley Kubrick (Nov 2008)
 * Robert Wade (chess player) (Dec 2008)
 * Xiangqi (Dec 2008)
 * Chess engine (Jan 2009) «High»
 * Hydra (chess) (Jan 2009)
 * Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship (Feb 2009)
 * Mizar chess engine (Apr 2009)
 * Comins Mansfield (May 2009)
 * Elizabeth Shaughnessy (May 2009)
 * Round-robin tournament (May 2009)
 * Chess (musical) (Jun 2009)
 * Medieval Kings Chess II (Jun 2009)
 * Almira Skripchenko (Jul 2009)
 * Ruslan Ponomariov (Jul 2009) «High»
 * Tatiana Zatulovskaya (Jul 2009)
 * Manhattan Chess Club (Aug 2009)
 * Florian Jenni (Sep 2009)
 * Flying chess (Sep 2009)
 * Internet Chess Club (Sep 2009)
 * Raymond Keene (Sep 2009)
 * Chess opening (Oct 2009) «Top»
 * Fianchetto (Oct 2009) «High»
 * Center Game (Nov 2009)
 * ChessWorld (Nov 2009)
 * Exchange (chess) (Nov 2009)
 * James Morris (chess player) (Nov 2009)
 * Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (Nov 2009)
 * Ottó Bláthy (Nov 2009)
 * Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship (Jan 2010)
 * Miguel Quinteros (Mar 2010)
 * Swiss-system tournament (Mar 2010) «High»
 * Tõnu Õim (Mar 2010)

Articles needing cleanup

 * ICCF U.S.A. (May 2007)
 * Michał Krasenkow (Jul 2007)
 * Peruvian Chess Championship (Dec 2007)
 * Kung-fu chess (Jan 2008)
 * Milan Matulović (Jan 2008)
 * Fricis Apšenieks (Apr 2008)
 * Mark S. Dutton (Apr 2008)
 * Richard Farleigh (Apr 2008)
 * Chess (2006 film) (May 2008)
 * Omega Chess (May 2008)
 * Kieninger Trap (Jul 2008)
 * Albert Becker (chess player) (Sep 2008)
 * Cristobal Dominguez (Oct 2008)
 * Boris Kreiman (Nov 2008)
 * List of abstract strategy games (Nov 2008)
 * Igor Novikov (chess player) (Dec 2008)
 * List of people who have beaten Garry Kasparov in chess (Jan 2009)
 * Vladimir Bagirov (Feb 2009)
 * Chess960 starting position (Mar 2009)
 * Grace Alekhine (Mar 2009)
 * Kevin O'Connell (chess player) (Apr 2009)
 * Mixed Doubles chess match (Apr 2009)
 * Paris 1867 chess tournament (Apr 2009)
 * Elizabeth Shaughnessy (May 2009)
 * David Penkalski (Jun 2009)
 * FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 (Jun 2009)
 * Lasker Trap (Jun 2009)
 * World Chess News (Aug 2009)
 * Sayantan Das (Dec 2009)
 * Vitaly Halberstadt (Dec 2009)
 * Efim Bogoljubov (Jan 2010) «High»
 * Joel Benjamin (Jan 2010)
 * Magnus Carlsen (Jan 2010) «High»
 * Philippine chess (Feb 2010)
 * Rybka (Feb 2010)
 * Swiss-system tournament (Feb 2010) «High»
 * Elmārs Zemgalis (Mar 2010)

Articles needing expert attention

 * ICCF Belgium (Nov 2008)
 * ICCF Bulgaria (Nov 2008)
 * ICCF Croatia (Nov 2008)
 * ICCF Czech Republic (Nov 2008)
 * ICCF Denmark (Nov 2008)
 * ICCF England (Nov 2008)
 * Philippine chess (Feb 2010)

Articles needing link rot cleanup

 * FIDE World Chess Championship 2004
 * Rybka
 * Sayantan Das

Articles needing sections

 * IFSB (Jan 2008)
 * Richard Farleigh (Nov 2009)

Articles that may contain original research

 * Immortal losing game (Sep 2007)
 * Atomic chess (Feb 2008)
 * Elo rating system (Mar 2008) «Top»
 * Chess Bundesliga (Oct 2008)
 * FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 (Oct 2008)
 * Janggi (Feb 2009)
 * Chess expert (Feb 2010)
 * Philippine chess (Feb 2010)

Articles that need to be wikified

 * Comins Mansfield (Mar 2009)
 * Deutsche Wertungszahl (Mar 2009)
 * John Littlewood (chess player) (May 2009)
 * Philippine chess (Feb 2010)

Articles to be expanded

 * Chess Life (Jan 2007)
 * U.S. Open Chess Championship (Apr 2007)
 * U.S. Women's Open Chess Championship (Apr 2007)
 * Xiangqi (Apr 2007)
 * Japanese Chess Championship (Oct 2007)
 * World Chess Championship 1993 (Dec 2007)
 * Quiescence search (Jan 2008)
 * Robert Wade (chess player) (Jan 2008)
 * Rybka (Jun 2008)
 * Wordsworth Donisthorpe (Jun 2008)
 * Frank Anderson (chess player) (Nov 2008)
 * Salvijus Bercys (Nov 2008)
 * Robin Smith (chess player) (May 2009)
 * Arman Pashikian (Jul 2009)
 * ChessGenius (Aug 2009)
 * MChess Pro (Sep 2009)
 * Chess boxing (Oct 2009)
 * Ernst Grünfeld (Dec 2009) «High»
 * Isolated pawn (Dec 2009) «High»
 * Jacques Mieses (Dec 2009)
 * Rudolf Swiderski (Dec 2009)
 * World Chess Championship 1986 (Dec 2009)
 * Corus chess tournament (Jan 2010) «High»
 * Robert Michael Snyder (Jan 2010)
 * Emil Josef Diemer (Mar 2010)
 * FIDE (Mar 2010) «Top»

Articles to be merged

 * Outpost (chess) (Apr 2008)
 * Overprotection (Apr 2008)
 * Chess in Europe (Sep 2008)
 * Chess composer (May 2009)
 * Fritz (chess) (Oct 2009)
 * Pocket Fritz (Oct 2009)
 * Glossary of chess (Nov 2009) «Top»
 * Jim Slater (accountant) (Dec 2009)
 * Chess expert (Mar 2010)
 * Chess master (Mar 2010)
 * Chess titles (Mar 2010)
 * Life Master (Mar 2010)

Articles to be split

 * Kotov syndrome (Dec 2008)
 * Three-dimensional chess (Nov 2009)
 * Computer chess (Mar 2010) «High»
 * First-move advantage in chess (Mar 2010) «FA, High»

Articles which may contain unencyclopedic material

 * Philippine chess

Articles with a promotional tone

 * World Chess Live (Apr 2008)
 * No Stress Chess (Mar 2009)

Articles with dead external links

 * Libro de los juegos (May 2008)
 * Alexander Brudno (Jun 2008)
 * Nolot (Jul 2008)
 * 33rd Chess Olympiad (Oct 2008)
 * World Chess Championship (Oct 2008) «Top»
 * Veselin Topalov (Nov 2008) «Top»
 * Israeli Chess Championship (Dec 2008)
 * Icelandic Chess Championship (Mar 2009)
 * 2008 in chess (Apr 2009)
 * Belarusian Chess Championship (Apr 2009)
 * Brazilian Chess Championship (Apr 2009)
 * Emanuel Lasker (Apr 2009) «GA, Top»
 * Nicolai Jasnogrodsky (Apr 2009)
 * Shannon number (Apr 2009)
 * World Senior Chess Championship (Apr 2009)
 * Italian Chess Championship (May 2009)
 * Latvian Chess Championship (May 2009)
 * Tim Redman (May 2009)
 * World Junior Chess Championship (May 2009)
 * Yasser Seirawan (May 2009)
 * Beersheba (Jul 2009)
 * Efstratios Grivas (Jul 2009)
 * Benjamin Franklin (Sep 2009)
 * Frank Parr (Oct 2009)
 * Nikolay Pavlov-Pianov (Nov 2009)
 * Solomon Gotthilf (Nov 2009)
 * List of FIDE chess world number ones (Jan 2010)
 * Chess (Feb 2010) «FA, Top»
 * First-move advantage in chess (Mar 2010) «FA, High»
 * Vladimir Nabokov (Mar 2010)

Articles with disputed statements

 * Shogi (Dec 2008)
 * Rashid Nezhmetdinov (Mar 2009)
 * Aleister Crowley (Feb 2010)

Articles with improper non-free content

 * Stanley Kubrick (Oct 2009)

Articles with minor POV problems

 * Spencer G. Lucas (Nov 2009)

Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose

 * Kieninger Trap (Jul 2008)
 * Magnus Carlsen (Jan 2010) «High»

Articles with specifically-marked weasel-worded phrases

 * Correspondence chess (Mar 2009) «Top»
 * Vladimir Nabokov (Sep 2009)
 * Claude Bloodgood (Oct 2009)
 * Spencer G. Lucas (Nov 2009)
 * Three-dimensional chess (Nov 2009)
 * Grandmaster (chess) (Dec 2009) «Top»
 * Janggi (Dec 2009)
 * Advanced Chess (Jan 2010)
 * The Seventh Seal (Jan 2010)
 * Vladimir Nabokov (Feb 2010)
 * Emil Josef Diemer (Mar 2010)
 * Italian Game (Mar 2010)

Articles with topics of unclear notability

 * Mark S. Dutton (Apr 2008)
 * Macclesfield Chess Club (Aug 2008)
 * Ikarus (chess) (Sep 2008)
 * GlChess (Jan 2009)
 * Internet Computer Chess Tournament (Mar 2009)
 * David Penkalski (Jun 2009)
 * List of chess openings named after places (Oct 2009)
 * Laura Aspis Prize (Dec 2009)
 * Power Chess (Dec 2009)
 * PyChess (Dec 2009)
 * Ron Henley (Dec 2009)
 * Thief (chess) (Dec 2009)
 * Arena (chess) (Jan 2010)
 * Rawle Allicock (Jan 2010)
 * Samuel Sevian (Jan 2010)
 * Tom Kerrigan's Simple Chess Program (Jan 2010)
 * Denker Tournament of High School Champions (Feb 2010)
 * Me and Bobby Fischer (Feb 2010)
 * Aron Zabłudowski (Mar 2010)
 * Constant Ferdinand Burille (Mar 2010)
 * Diptayan Ghosh (Mar 2010)
 * Friedrich Nürnberg (Mar 2010)
 * George Salto Fontein (Mar 2010)
 * José Rubinstein (Mar 2010)
 * Józef Żabiński (Mar 2010)
 * Lazar Zalkind (Mar 2010)
 * Noureddine Ziane (Mar 2010)
 * Peter Yurdansky (Mar 2010)
 * Sayantan Das (Mar 2010)
 * Simon Rubinstein (Mar 2010)
 * Vanik Zakaryan (Mar 2010)
 * Yaacov Zilberman (Mar 2010)
 * Yang Xian (Mar 2010)
 * Zhang Weida (Mar 2010)
 * Zhao Lan (Mar 2010)
 * Alapin-Diemer Gambit
 * Diemer-Duhm Gambit

Articles with trivia sections

 * George Koltanowski (Apr 2008)
 * Garry Kasparov (Aug 2008) «Top»
 * Humphrey Bogart (Jan 2010)

Articles with unsourced quotes

 * Edward Lasker

Feb 2007

 * Alexander Brudno
 * Hydra (chess)
 * KnightCap
 * Kotok-McCarthy
 * Libro de los juegos
 * Mac Hack
 * Mechanics' Institute Chess Club

Mar 2007

 * British Schools Chess Championship
 * Correspondence chess «Top»
 * Joseph Gallagher

Apr 2007

 * Boris Spassky «Top»
 * ChessCafe.com
 * FIDE World Chess Championships 1998–2004
 * Newell W. Banks

May 2007

 * Harold Davidson
 * Teimour Radjabov

Jun 2007

 * Irina Krush
 * The exchange (chess) «High»

Jul 2007

 * Human-computer chess matches
 * Larry Evans
 * Semyon Furman

Aug 2007

 * Cheating in chess
 * Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany
 * Garry Kasparov «Top»
 * Internet chess server
 * Marcel Duchamp

Sep 2007

 * Computer chess «High»
 * Harold Davidson
 * James Macrae Aitken
 * Jude Acers
 * King's Gambit «High»
 * Larry Evans
 * Scheveningen system

Oct 2007

 * Classical World Chess Championship 2004
 * Johann Löwenthal
 * Vladimir Nabokov

Nov 2007

 * ICCF Austria
 * IFSB

Jan 2008

 * Computer chess «High»
 * Human-computer chess matches

Feb 2008

 * Bruno Parma
 * Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany

Mar 2008

 * Bitboard
 * Brains in Bahrain
 * Correspondence chess «Top»
 * Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov «Top»
 * Elo rating system «Top»
 * HIARCS
 * Human-computer chess matches
 * Lewis chessmen «High»
 * Mikhail Tal «Top»

Apr 2008

 * Gata Kamsky «High»
 * Jordy Mont-Reynaud
 * Play-by-mail game

May 2008

 * Deep Thought (chess computer)
 * Senterej
 * United States Chess Federation

Jun 2008

 * Beersheba
 * Chess960

Jul 2008

 * Chess960
 * Gambit «High»
 * List of people who have beaten Bobby Fischer in chess
 * List of people who have beaten Garry Kasparov in chess
 * Rybka
 * Weaver W. Adams

Aug 2008

 * Forsyth–Edwards Notation
 * Lisa Lane
 * Noam Elkies
 * Stanley Kubrick

Sep 2008

 * Chess handicap
 * Fortress (chess)
 * Vladimir Nabokov

Oct 2008

 * Chaturanga
 * Chigorin Defense
 * Gata Kamsky «High»
 * George C. Scott
 * Izaak Appel
 * Thomas Rendle
 * Yoshiharu Habu

Nov 2008

 * Isidor Gunsberg
 * Kasparov versus the World
 * Max Pomeranc
 * Viktorija Čmilytė

Dec 2008

 * Boris Spassky «Top»

Jan 2009

 * Chess libraries
 * Evgeny Sveshnikov
 * José Raúl Capablanca «Top»
 * Jude Acers
 * Kaissa
 * Stanley Kubrick

Feb 2009

 * British Schools Chess Championship
 * My Great Predecessors
 * Xiangqi

Mar 2009

 * Baroque chess
 * Boris Gulko
 * Deutsche Wertungszahl
 * Gisela Kahn Gresser
 * World Chess Championship 1972 «Top»
 * Yona Kosashvili

Apr 2009

 * Beersheba
 * Philidor Defence

May 2009

 * John Dunlop (chess player)
 * Ortvin Sarapu

Jun 2009

 * Beersheba
 * Deep Blue (chess computer) «Top»
 * Deep Blue – Kasparov, 1996, Game 1
 * Isaac Lipnitsky
 * José Raúl Capablanca «Top»
 * Mikhail Botvinnik «Top»
 * Sicilian Defence «High»
 * Stanley Kubrick

Jul 2009

 * Bobby Fischer «Top»
 * Vladimir Nabokov

Aug 2009

 * Larsen's Opening
 * Manhattan Chess Club
 * Sam Sloan

Sep 2009

 * Baruch Harold Wood
 * Eight queens puzzle
 * George C. Scott
 * Julian Simpole

Oct 2009

 * Budapest Gambit «GA»
 * List of chess openings named after people
 * Monster chess
 * Nigel Short «High»

Nov 2009

 * Blindfold chess «High»
 * Bobby Fischer «Top»
 * Chess notation «High»
 * Chess Olympiad «Top»
 * David Bronstein «High»
 * Eight queens puzzle
 * Glossary of chess «Top»
 * Humphrey Bogart
 * Initiative (chess)
 * K. K. Karanja
 * Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant
 * Queen's Gambit Declined «High»
 * Spencer G. Lucas

Dec 2009

 * Aleister Crowley
 * Bitboard
 * ChessGenius
 * Eight queens puzzle
 * Grandmaster (chess) «Top»
 * Grünfeld Defence «High»
 * Halloween Gambit
 * Janggi
 * Julian Simpole
 * William Winter (chess player)

Jan 2010

 * Chess «FA, Top»
 * Chess strategy «Top»
 * Harold Davidson

Feb 2010

 * Aleister Crowley
 * Chess «FA, Top»
 * Chess expert
 * FIDE titles «Top»
 * Humphrey Bogart
 * Jesse Kraai
 * Kenneth Rogoff
 * Natan Sharansky
 * Samuil Vainshtein
 * Vladimir Nabokov
 * Xiangqi
 * Yannick Pelletier

Mar 2010

 * Elmārs Zemgalis
 * Emil Josef Diemer
 * Miguel Quinteros
 * Sam Sloan
 * Swiss-system tournament «High»
 * Thomas Bowdler
 * Vanik Zakaryan
 * Yaacov Zilberman
 * Zhang Jilin

Other

 * Chantal Chaudé de Silans
 * Vladimir Nabokov

Articles with weasel words

 * Elo rating system (Mar 2008) «Top»

BLP articles lacking sources

 * Alla Kushnir
 * Anatoly Karpov «Top»
 * Ariel Sorin
 * Christian Freeling
 * Daniel Cámpora
 * Dragoljub Janošević
 * Duško Pavasovič
 * Herbert Seidman
 * Iivo Nei
 * Jacob Murey
 * John-Paul Wallace
 * John Roycroft
 * Julian Simpole
 * Kamran Shirazi
 * Kevin Spraggett
 * Larry Bevand
 * Lev Gutman
 * Lothar Schmid
 * Luke McShane
 * Martin Kreuzer
 * Martin Mrva
 * Nikolai Krogius
 * Pablo Zarnicki
 * Peter Lee (chess player)
 * Rodolfo Tan Cardoso
 * Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi
 * Ulf Andersson
 * Victor Mikhalevski
 * Viktor Gavrikov
 * Yasser Seirawan
 * Yoshiharu Habu
 * Zadok Domnitz

Chess articles needing expert attention

 * ICCF Belgium
 * ICCF Bulgaria
 * ICCF Croatia
 * ICCF Czech Republic
 * ICCF Denmark
 * ICCF England
 * Philippine chess

Cleanup from section

 * Aleister Crowley

Macedonia articles missing geocoordinate data

 * 20th Chess Olympiad

NPOV disputes

 * Harold Davidson (Dec 2007)
 * Elmārs Zemgalis (Mar 2010)
 * Emil Josef Diemer (Mar 2010)
 * Wolfgang Uhlmann (Mar 2010) «High»

Orphaned articles

 * Leo Battesti (Nov 2006)
 * Memorial Heroes of Chernobyl (Nov 2006)
 * Fidelity Ultimate Chess Challenge (Nov 2007)
 * Ali Nihat Yazıcı (Jan 2008)
 * Kenneth Clayton (Jan 2008)
 * Manuel León Hoyos (Apr 2008)
 * Birdie Reeve Kay (Oct 2008)
 * Mark S. Dutton (Feb 2009)
 * Asa Hoffmann (Mar 2009)
 * Deutsche Wertungszahl (Mar 2009)
 * ICCF Belarus (Nov 2009)
 * XICS (Dec 2009)
 * Lasker – Bauer, Amsterdam, 1889 (Jan 2010)
 * Chess blindness (Feb 2010)
 * Nikolai Sahzin (Feb 2010)
 * No Stress Chess (Feb 2010)
 * Philippine chess (Feb 2010)
 * Deysi Cori (Mar 2010)
 * Felipe El Debs (Mar 2010)

Pages with broken reference names

 * Hou Yifan

Russia articles missing geocoordinate data

 * Chess City

Self-contradictory articles

 * St. George Defence (May 2009)

Unreferenced BLPs

 * David Norwood (Jun 2007)
 * Gary Benson (Mar 2008)
 * Fred Waitzkin (May 2008)
 * George Dean (Jun 2008)
 * Dariusz Swiercz (Jun 2009)
 * Dejan Antic (Jul 2009)
 * Vitali Sevastyanov (Jul 2009)
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