User:Quale

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Recently I've been working almost exclusively in the Chess Wikiproject to improve articles in List of chess topics. Although I'm not a strong chess player, I have a fair library of chess books that I can use for research.

Contents

[edit] To do

Some work to do on chess-related pages:

[edit] To create

  • Bios:
    • John G. White - (John Griswold), founder of the world's largest chess library (has an entry in Hooper & Whyld)
    • Alexander Roshal - Russian chess journalist (see Talk:64 (chess magazine))
    • Ercole del Rio
    • Giambattista Lolli
    • Rev. George Allcock MacDonnell
    • Patrick Thomas Duffy
    • Adolf Zytogorski
    • William Addison (chess player)
  • World Chess Championships:
    • all world championship matches before 1948 (!) (some of these are done now, see Category:Chess world championships)
    • World Chess Championship 1951 Bronstein–Botvinnik
    • World Chess Championship 1954 Smyslov–Botvinnik
    • World Chess Championship 1957 Smyslov–Botvinnik
    • World Chess Championship 1960 Tal–Botvinnik
    • World Chess Championship 1966 Spassky–Petrosian
    • World Chess Championship 1969 Spassky–Petrosian
  • National championships
  • Chess federations
  • Strong chess tournaments:
    • Tilburg ([1], TWIC 209)
    • Capablanca Memorial
    • individual tournaments in Golombek, some should have articles
      • Baden-Baden 1870 and 1925
      • Bad Kissingen 1928
      • Berlin 1928
      • Bled 1931 and 1961
      • Budapest 1896
      • Cambridge Springs 1904
      • Carlsbad 1907, 1911, 1923, and 1929
      • Göteborg 1920
      • Kecskemet 1927
      • London 1851, 1862, 1872, 1883, 1922, and 1927
      • Madrid 1973
      • Mährisch-Ostrau 1923
      • Marienbad 1925
      • Milan 1975
      • Monte Carlo 1967 and 1968
      • Moscow 1925, 1935, and 1936
      • New York 1857, 1889, 1924, and 1927
      • Nottingham 1936
      • Nuremberg 1896
      • Ostend International
      • Paris 1867, 1878, 1900, and 1924
      • Pistyan 1912 and 1922
      • Podebrady 1936
      • Prague 1908, 1942, and 1946
      • St. Petersburg 1909 and 1914
      • San Antonio 1972
      • San Remo 1930
      • San Sebastian 1911 and 1912
      • Scheveningen 1923
      • Semmering 1926
      • Semmering-Baden 1937
      • Skopje 1967 and 1976
      • Sliac 1932
      • Teplitz-Schönau
      • Vienna 1882, 1898, and 1922
      • Zandvoort 1936
      • Zürich 1934
  • Other tournaments
    • North American Open Chess Championship (2006 results)
    • Ciudad de Dos Hermanas (I don't know the history, but I think there are several of these, perhaps not all encyclopedic. The 14 rapid events through 2008 probably are.)
  • Accumulation from many sources to produce Category:Years in chess articles for every year

[edit] To improve

[edit] Sources

Sources to copy and paste into Category:Chess articles.

[edit] Biographies

{{citation
 | last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
 | year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
 | publisher=McFarland
 | isbn=0-7864-2353-6
 | pages=}}

[edit] Championships

*{{citation
  | last=Whyld | first=Ken | author-link=Ken Whyld
  | year=1986
  | title=Chess: The Records
  | publisher=Guinness Books
  | isbn=0-85112-455-0
  | page=}}

[edit] General

  • Brace, Edward R. (1977), An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess, Hamlyn Publishing Group, ISBN 1-55521-394-4 
{{citation
 | last=Brace | first=Edward R.
 | year=1977 | title=An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess
 | publisher=Hamlyn Publishing Group
 | isbn=1-55521-394-4
 | pages=}}

{{citation
 | editor-last=Golombek | editor-first=Harry | editor-link=Harry Golombek
 | year=1977 | title=Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess
 | publisher=Crown Publishing
 | isbn=0-517-53146-1
 | contribution=
 | pages=}}

{{citation
 | last1=Hooper | first1=David | author1-link=David Vincent Hooper
 | last2=Whyld | first2=Kenneth | author2-link=Kenneth Whyld
 | year=1992 | title=[[The Oxford Companion to Chess]] | edition=2
 | publisher=Oxford University Press
 | isbn=0-19-280049-3
 | pages=}}

{{citation
 | last=Sunnucks | first=Anne | author-link=Anne Sunnucks
 | year=1970 | title=The Encyclopaedia of Chess
 | publisher=St. Martin's Press
 | id={{LCCN|78||106371}}
 | pages=}}

[edit] Openings

  • Burgess, Graham (2000), The Mammoth Book of Chess, Carroll & Graf, ISBN 0786707259 
{{citation
 | last=Burgess | first=Graham
 | year=2000 | title=The Mammoth Book of Chess
 | publisher=Carroll & Graf
 | isbn=0786707259
 | pages=}}

{{citation
 | last=De Firmian | first=Nick | author-link=Nick de Firmian
 | year=1999 | title=[[Modern Chess Openings]]: MCO-14
 | publisher=Random House Puzzles & Games
 | isbn=0-8129-3084-3
 | pages=}}

{{citation
 | last=Fine | first=Reuben | authorlink=Reuben Fine
 | year=1990 | title=Ideas Behind the Chess Openings
 | publisher=Random House Puzzles & Games
 | isbn=0812917561
 | pages=}}

{{citation
 | last1=Kasparov | first1=Garry | author1-link=Gary Kasparov
 | last2=Keene | first2=Raymond | author2-link=Raymond Keene
 | year=1989, 1994 | title=Batsford Chess Openings 2
 | publisher=Henry Holt
 | isbn=0-8050-3409-9
 | pages=}}

{{citation
 | last=Nunn | first=John | authorlink=John Nunn
 | year=1999 | title=Nunn's Chess Openings
 | publisher=Everyman Chess
 | isbn=1-8574-4221-0
 | pages=}}

{{citation
 | last=Schiller | first=Eric | authorlink=Eric Schiller
 | year=2003 | title=Unorthodox Chess Openings
 | publisher=Cardoza
 | isbn=1-5804-2072-9
 | pages=}}