Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chess/Assessment

Assessment chart/diagram update
How does the assessment info get updated? Is there some tool or thing to run to get it updated? ChessCreator (talk) 00:32, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it's run every few days automatically, although the intervals are somewhat irregular. (Or rather by some batch process that updates the assessments for all the participating wikiprojects.)  You can find the log of past runs at Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Chess_articles_by_quality_log.  BTW, if you can think of any pages or categories that would belong in Category:WikiProject Chess, feel free to add them. Quale (talk) 21:28, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Track of numbers
Seems the number of chess articles is growing fast recently. Something like 200 within the last two month. According to a note in WP:CHESS on Friday 5 October 2007, the WikiProject Chess reached 2,000 articles. Keeping a record here as might be interesting to look back at in the future. Chess articles 	Importance Top 	High 	Mid 	Low 	Total Quality FA 	1 	1 			2 A 			1 		1 GA 	1 		1 	1 	3 B 	23 	29 	46 	30 	128 Start 	21 	129 	380 	528 	1058 Stub 	2 	56 	250 	872 	1180 Assessed48 	215 	678 	1431 	2372 Total 	48 	215 	678 	1431 	2372 ChessCreator (talk) 12:55, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Update below:14 March 2008. 48 new articles in last 7 days. Chess articles 	Importance Top 	High 	Mid 	Low 	Total Quality FA 	1 	1 			2 A 			1 		1 GA 			1 	1 	2 B 	24 	29 	46 	30 	129 Start 	20 	130 	382 	533 	1065 Stub 	2 	56 	253 	910 	1221 Assessed47 	216 	683 	1474 	2420 Total 	47 	216 	683 	1474 	2420 ChessCreator (talk) 11:38, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Update below:23 March 2008. 27 new articles in last 9 days. Chess articles 	Importance Top 	High 	Mid 	Low 	Total Quality FA 	1 	1 			2 A 			1 		1 GA 			1 	1 	2 B 	24 	31 	46 	30 	131 Start 	20 	129 	384 	536 	1069 Stub 	2 	55 	253 	932 	1242 Assessed47 	216 	685 	1499 	2447 Total 	47 	216 	685 	1499 	2447

Update below:2 April 2008. 6 new articles in last 10 days. Chess articles 	Importance Top 	High 	Mid 	Low 	Total Quality FA 	1 	1 			2 A 			1 		1 GA 			1 	1 	2 B 	25 	31 	47 	25 	128 Start 	21 	129 	385 	536 	1071 Stub 		47 	260 	942 	1249 Assessed47 	208 	694 	1504 	2453 Total 	47 	208 	694 	1504 	2453 ChessCreator (talk) 11:33, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Update below:7 April 2008. 13 new articles in last 5 days. Chess articles 	Importance Top 	High 	Mid 	Low 	Total Quality FA 	1 	1 			2 A 			1 		1 GA 			1 	1 	2 B 	25 	31 	48 	25 	129 Start 	21 	125 	393 	538 	1077 Stub 		43 	266 	946 	1255 Assessed47 	200 	709 	1510 	2466 Total 	47 	200 	709 	1510 	2466 ChessCreator (talk) 13:56, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Update below:18 April 2008. 40 new articles in last 11 days. Chess articles 	Importance Top 	High 	Mid 	Low 	None 	Total Quality FA 	1 	1 				2 A 			1 			1 GA 			1 	1 		2 B 	26 	30 	44 	26 		126 Start 	20 	124 	385 	539 	1 	1069 Stub 		44 	266 	969 	1 	1280 List 		4 	9 	13 		26 Assessed47 	203 	706 	1548 	2 	2506 Total 	47 	203 	706 	1548 	2 	2506 SunCreator (talk) 00:38, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Update below:20 April 2008. 12 new articles in 2 days. Chess articles 	Importance Top 	High 	Mid 	Low 	Total Quality FA 	1 	1 			2 A 			1 		1 GA 			1 	1 	2 B 	27 	33 	46 	26 	132 Start 	19 	119 	386 	540 	1064 Stub 		43 	267 	981 	1291 List 	1 	3 	8 	14 	26 Assessed48 	199 	709 	1562 	2518 Total 	48 	199 	709 	1562 	2518 SunCreator (talk) 01:43, 20 April 2008 (UTC) Update below:23 April 2008. 9 new articles and many re-assessments. Chess articles 	Importance Top 	High 	Mid 	Low 	Total Quality FA 	1 	1 			2 A 			1 		1 GA 			1 	1 	2 B 	42 	59 	57 	14 	172 Start 	3 	111 	429 	551 	1094 Stub 		25 	214 	991 	1230 List 	1 	3 	8 	14 	26 Assessed47 	199 	710 	1571 	2527 Total 	47 	199 	710 	1571 	2527 SunCreator (talk) 00:43, 23 April 2008 (UTC) Update below:4 May 2008. 14 new articles and many re-assessments. Chess articles 	Importance Top 	High 	Mid 	Low 	Total Quality FA 	1 	1 			2 A 			2 		2 GA 			1 	1 	2 B 	40 	97 	69 	14 	220 Start 	4 	81 	435 	560 	1080 Stub 		3 	216 	989 	1208 List 	2 	3 	9 	12 	26 Assessed 47 	185 	732 	1576 	2540 Unassessed 			1 	1 Total 	47 	185 	732 	1577 	2541 SunCreator (talk) 12:20, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Top Importance?
The Top importance of these articles seem questionable to me. Looking at conversion to other languages it appears some others agree.
 * Chess in the arts and literature
 * Luis Ramirez de Lucena
 * Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais

Suggested Top articles that are currently High ChessCreator (talk) 14:36, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Aron Nimzowitsch
 * Deep Blue (chess computer)

Most adjustments above made. Aron Nimzowitsch left as high. Much cross checking to similar topics and page views (see below) Stalemate and En passant changed to Top. Pending cross-checking High and Mid. Adjournment‎, Chess prodigy, Knight's tour, Comparing top chess players throughout history to High. ChessCreator (talk) 19:35, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Pages views
Using http://stats.grok.se List contains all Top importance, most Highs and a many mids. Number is approx. average per day.

Note, if the page is arrived at via a re-direct then that redirect view is not counted.

Chess Openings by page views
Added obvious re-direct names to total, i.e Sicilian Defense + Sicilian Defence added together.

Rank, Page views(average per day), Opening name, Assessment Class
 * 1) 	1000	Chess opening	Top
 * 2) 	560	Sicilian Defence/se	High
 * 3) 	330	Ruy Lopez	High
 * 4) 	275	List of chess openings	High
 * 5) 	184	King/'s Gambit	High
 * 6) 	170	French Defence/se	High
 * 7) 	160	Open Game	High
 * 8) 	150	Scholar's mate	High
 * 9) 	137	Fool's mate	High
 * 10) 	135	Caro-Kann Defence	High
 * 11) 	128	English Opening	High
 * 12) 	125	Queen's Gambit Declined	High
 * 13) 	120	King's Indian Attack	Mid
 * 14) 	115	King's Indian Defence	High
 * 15) 	101	Alekhine/'s Defence/se	Mid
 * 16) 	100	Nimzo-Indian Defence	High
 * 17) 	95	Réti Opening	High
 * 18) 	82	Indian Defence	High
 * 19) 	80	Dutch Defence	Mid
 * 20) 	79	Queen's Gambit Accepted	Mid
 * 21) 	77	Two Knights Defense	High
 * 22) 	73	Scandinavian Defense	Mid
 * 23) 	73	Slav Defense	High
 * 24) 	71	Latvian Gambit	Mid
 * 25) 	70	Scotch Game	Mid
 * 26) 	70	Queen's Gambit Accepted	Mid
 * 27) 	70	Pirc Defence	High
 * 28) 	66	Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation	Mid
 * 29) 	66	Benoni Defense	Mid
 * 30) 	65	Closed Game	High
 * 31) 	62	Grünfeld Defence	High
 * 32) 	60	Irregular chess opening	Low
 * 33) 	60	King's Pawn Game	High
 * 34) 	55	Petrov's Defence	Mid
 * 35) 	53	Stonewall Attack	Low
 * 36) 	51	Grob's Attack	Mid
 * 37) 	50	Bird's Opening	Mid
 * 38) 	50	Giuoco Piano	High
 * 39) 	50	Evans Gambit	High
 * 40) 	48	Modern Defense	Mid
 * 41) 	48	Queen's Pawn Game	High
 * 42) 	48	Queen's Indian Defense	High
 * 43) 	46	Budapest Defence	Mid
 * 44) 	45	Danish Gambit	Mid
 * 45) 	40	Vienna Game	Mid
 * 46) 	40	Sokolsky Opening‎	Mid
 * 47) 	40	Four Knights Game	Mid
 * 48) 	40	Albin Countergambit	Mid
 * 49) 	40	Fried Liver Attack	Low
 * 50) 	39	Philidor Defence	Mid
 * 51) 	39	Parham Attack	Low
 * 52) 	38	Italian Game	Mid
 * 53) 	38	Colle System	Mid
 * 54) 	35	List of chess gambits	Mid
 * 55) 	35	Catalan Opening	Mid
 * 56) 	35	Benko Gambit	Mid
 * 57) 	35	Hippopotamus Defence	Low
 * 58) 	34	Semi-Open Game	High
 * 59) 	32	Semi-Slav Defense	Mid
 * 60) 	32	Hedgehog_(chess)	Low
 * 61) 	31	Anderssen's Opening	Low
 * 62) 	30	Bishop's Opening	Mid
 * 63) 	30	Blackmar-Diemer Gambit	Low
 * 64) 	30	Benko's Opening	Low
 * 65) 	29	Larsen's Opening	Low
 * 66) 	28	Smith-Morra Gambit	Mid
 * 67) 	28	Van 't Kruijs Opening	Low
 * 68) 	28	Napoleon Opening	Low
 * 69) 	28	List of chess openings named after places	Low
 * 70) 	26	Lasker Trap	Low
 * 71) 	26	Elephant Trap	Low
 * 72) 	25	Barnes Opening	Low
 * 73) 	25	Flank opening	High
 * 74) 	24	Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation‎	Mid
 * 75) 	24	Ponziani Opening	Mid
 * 76) 	23	Elephant Gambit	Low
 * 77) 	23	Dunst Opening	Low
 * 78) 	22	Center Game	Mid
 * 79) 	22	Mieses Opening	Low
 * 80) 	21	Poisoned Pawn Variation	Low
 * 81) 	21	Amar Opening	Low
 * 82) 	20	Sicilian Defence, Scheveningen Variation	Mid
 * 83) 	20	Nimzowitsch Defence	Mid
 * 84) 	20	Maróczy Bind	Mid
 * 85) 	20	Chigorin Defense	Mid
 * 86) 	20	Bogo-Indian Defence	Mid
 * 87) 	20	Symmetrical Defense	Low
 * 88) 	20	Blackburne Shilling Gambit	Low
 * 89) 	20	Semi-Closed Game	High
 * 90) 	19	Noah's Ark Trap	Low
 * 91) 	19	Marshall Defense	Low
 * 92) 	19	Desprez Opening	Low
 * 93) 	19	Modern Chess Openings	High
 * 94) 	18	Ware Opening	Low
 * 95) 	18	Saragossa Opening	Low
 * 96) 	17	Tarrasch Defense	Mid
 * 97) 	17	Torre Attack	Low
 * 98) 	16	St. George Defence	Low
 * 99) 	16	Sicilian Defence, Alapin Variation	Low
 * 100) 	15	Richter-Veresov Attack	Low
 * 101) 	15	Fischer Defense	Low
 * 102) 	15	Clemenz Opening	Low
 * 103) 	15	Légal Trap	High
 * 104) 	14	Sicilian Defence, Accelerated Dragon	Low
 * 105) 	14	Monkey's Bum	Low
 * 106) 	14	London System	Low
 * 107) 	14	Durkin Opening	Low
 * 108) 	14	Baltic Defense	Low
 * 109) 	13	Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation	Mid
 * 110) 	13	Wing Gambit	Low
 * 111) 	13	Englund Gambit	Low
 * 112) 	12	King's Indian Defence, Four Pawns Attack	Mid
 * 113) 	12	Staunton Gambit	Low
 * 114) 	12	Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav attack, 9.Bc4	Low
 * 115) 	12	Portuguese Opening	Low
 * 116) 	12	Corn Stalk Defense	Low
 * 117) 	12	Cambridge Springs Defense	Low
 * 118) 	11	Owen's Defense	Low
 * 119) 	10	Opening book	Mid
 * 120) 	10	Monticelli Trap	Low
 * 121) 	10	Magnus Smith Trap	Low
 * 122) 	10	Lopez Opening	Low
 * 123) 	10	East Indian Defence	Low
 * 124) 	10	Boungcloud Attack	Low
 * 125) 	10	Black Knights' Tango	Low
 * 126) 	9	Old Indian Defense	Mid
 * 127) 	9	Damiano Defence	Mid
 * 128) 	9	Kingston Defence	Low
 * 129) 	9	Alapin's Opening	Low
 * 130) 	8	Siberian Trap	Low
 * 131) 	8	Rousseau Gambit	Low
 * 132) 	8	Lemming Defense	Low
 * 133) 	8	Italian Gambit	Low
 * 134) 	8	Halosar Trap	Low
 * 135) 	8	Greco Defence	Low
 * 136) 	8	Fred Defence	Low
 * 137) 	8	Frankenstein-Dracula Variation	Low
 * 138) 	8	English Defense	Low
 * 139) 	8	Adams Defense	Low
 * 140) 	7	Polish Defense	Low
 * 141) 	6	Trompowsky Attack	Low
 * 142) 	6	Tortoise Opening	Low
 * 143) 	6	Rubinstein Trap	Low
 * 144) 	6	Queen's Knight Defense	Low
 * 145) 	6	Neo-Indian Attack	Low
 * 146) 	6	Mortimer Trap	Low
 * 147) 	6	Falkbeer Countergambit	Low
 * 148) 	5	Würzburger Trap	Low
 * 149) 	5	Steinitz Variation	Low
 * 150) 	5	Marshall Trap	Low
 * 151) 	5	Marshall Gambit	Low
 * 152) 	5	Konstantinopolsky Opening	Low
 * 153) 	5	King's Knight Opening	Low
 * 154) 	5	Keres Defence	Low
 * 155) 	5	Carr Defense	Low
 * 156) 	5	Câmara Defense	Low
 * 157) 	4	Wade Defence	Low
 * 158) 	4	Rice Gambit	Low
 * 159) 	4	Müller-Schulze Gambit	Low
 * 160) 	4	Irish Gambit	Low
 * 161) 	4	Inverted Hungarian Opening	Low
 * 162) 	4	Hungarian Defense	Low
 * 163) 	3	Three Knights Opening	Mid
 * 164) 	3	Four Pawns Attack	Low
 * 165) 	3	Exchange variation	Low
 * 166) 	3	Chekhover Sicilian	Low
 * 167) 	3	Balogh Defense	Low

ChessCreator (talk) 11:34, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I changed Sicilian Defense to Sician Defence in the articles using AWB, so that should cut out the redirects. Bubba73 (talk), 03:52, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Ditto French and Alekhine. Bubba73 (talk), 04:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Ditto Caro-Kann. Bubba73 (talk), 05:58, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Project tag
I just saw the project tag for the Military History project. For instance, go to Talk:Battle of Bloody Marsh, down to the Military Project box, and click on "show". It gives five criteria for being a B class article, and whether or not they have been met. I'm not asking anyone to do this for our project, since a few people have put in such a large amount of work already. But it is nice! Bubba73 (talk), 15:40, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * If you go here you can find all articles according to number of references, so you can find those with no references or few references according to the amount of content. I don't think adding extra info in the assessment template would be productive. It would take a quite a bit of time to assess articles for something like grammar and it would soon get out of date. I think any sort of specific cleanup type work is best written about on the talk page. What way others see the issue and it can be commented on or marked accordingly when done. SunCreator (talk) 23:24, 26 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I know it would take a lot of time, I just think it would be nice. But I do like the way they rate them on five criteria rather than counting paragraphs, etc.  BTW, I used AWB to change several redirects so some of the traffic figures on that page will be more accurate now.  Bubba73 (talk), 23:59, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure the AWB changes where correct it seems to have changed the displayed words on some articles from America to English or vise versa spelling. I don't think that was the intention of the change and might be worth checking over. SunCreator (talk) 21:31, 27 April 2008 (UTC)


 * In those four or five openings, I changed occurences in links from "defense" to "defence", since "...ce" is the title of the article. That way you only have to check the stats for the actual article name, for Sicilian, French, Caro-Kann, and Alekhine.  Bubba73 (talk), 21:44, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Articles by Quality
New categories avilable. See SunCreator (talk) 13:22, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Report of recent tagging run by Xenobot Mk V
Xenobot recently tagged 47 new articles for this project. They are listed below. –xenotalk 17:18, 17 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Talk:Adam Robinson
 * Talk:Anthony Kosten
 * Talk:Bengt Ekenberg
 * Talk:Bill Wall
 * Talk:Board games at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games
 * Talk:Chess for Juniors
 * Talk:Damiano's bishop mate
 * Talk:David and Goliath mate
 * Talk:Double bishop mate
 * Talk:Dovetail mate
 * Talk:Evgeniy Solozhenkin
 * Talk:Goodricke National Chess Academy
 * Talk:H-file mate
 * Talk:Haukur Angantýsson
 * Talk:Hiashatar
 * Talk:Hook mate
 * Talk:Knut Jøran Helmers
 * Talk:List of Jews in sports
 * Talk:Lolli's mate
 * Talk:Maaja Ranniku
 * Talk:Max Lange's mate
 * Talk:Morphy's mate
 * Talk:Nils Bergkvist
 * Talk:Olga Semenova Tyan-Shanskaya
 * Talk:Opera mate
 * Talk:Ove Kinnmark
 * Talk:Pawn duel
 * Talk:Permanent brain
 * Talk:Petr Velička
 * Talk:Pillsbury's mate
 * Talk:Réti's mate
 * Talk:Robert Abbott (game designer)
 * Talk:Rook polynomial
 * Talk:Sergey Smagin
 * Talk:Shinsaku Uesugi
 * Talk:Solomon Rubinstein
 * Talk:Suffocation mate
 * Talk:Swallow's tail mate
 * Talk:Through the Looking-Glass
 * Talk:UAAP Chess Championship
 * Talk:Valentina Borisenko
 * Talk:Vladimir Burmakin
 * Talk:Vladimir Okhotnik
 * Talk:Wojciech Bartelski
 * Talk:Women's Soviet Chess Championship
 * Talk:Yuri Vovk
 * Talk:Zillions of Games

December 2020
There is a discussion over at Talk:The Queen's Gambit (miniseries) that might interest you. Cheers CapnZapp (talk) 11:28, 25 December 2020 (UTC)