Editing Incubator escapee wiki:WikiProject Chess (section)

== Templates ==
One of the goals of WikiProject Chess is the uniform presentation of chess related articles. For this aim, a couple of templates have been created. See [[:Category:Chess templates]] for a full list; the most useful ones are explained below.

=== Diagrams, annotation and notation ===
{{shortcut|WP:FEN}}
According to the Wikimedia commons, the current "standard" for Chess diagrams on Wikipedia is the [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Standard_chess_diagram chess diagram template]. See [[:Template:Chess_diagram]] for the template and [[Template_talk:Chess_diagram]] for instructions on how to use it. While diagrams have used a Wikipedia-specific format, with Lua support the {{tl|Chess diagram}} code in the English Wikipedia now supports FEN directly. 

Here is how a chess diagram looks in the Wikipedia source:

<code><nowiki>{{Chess diagram|align=tright|fen=r3r1k1/pp3pbp/1Bp1b1p1/8/2BP4/Q1n2N2/P4PPP/3R1K1R b - - 0 18|footer=Describe position here}}</nowiki></code>

Which will look like this:

{{Chess diagram|align=tright|fen=r3r1k1/pp3pbp/1Bp1b1p1/8/2BP4/Q1n2N2/P4PPP/3R1K1R b - - 0 18|footer=Describe position here}}

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=== Biographies ===
A template has been created to display an infobox for chess players. See [[Template:Infobox_chess_player]] for an example and instructions on how to use it. The easy way to use it is copy an existing similar one. 

A 'Infobox chess player' is already found on many pages like [[Mikhail Chigorin]], [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] for dead people and for a living person  [[Susan Polgar]], [[Anatoly Karpov]], etc. Where no photo of the player is available, [[Hans Berliner]] is a good example.

For external links, [[Template:fide]] for the FIDE rating card and [[Template:chessgames player]] for the link to the player's page at [[ChessGames.com]] are available. Other sites such as 365chess.com may be entered manually. The following are some of the external links that may be used for a player profile, using [[Viswanathan Anand]] as an example:
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">
 * {{fide|id=5000017|name=Viswanathan Anand}}
 * {{Chessgames player|12088|Viswanathan Anand}}
 * [http://www.365chess.com/players/Viswanathan_Anand Viswanathan Anand] chess games at 365Chess.com
 * [http://www.olimpbase.org/players/mw0k8ogi.html Viswanathan Anand] team chess record at OlimpBase.org
 * [http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Anand,%20Viswanathan.html Viswanathan Anand] FIDE rating history, 1984-2001 at OlimpBase.org
 * [http://www.benoni.de/schach/elo/elohis.html?id=5000017 Viswanathan Anand] FIDE rating history at benoni.de
 * [http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/PlayerProfile.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S003424000000111000000000001310100 Viswanathan Anand] at [[Chessmetrics]]
 * [http://main.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12465315 Viswanathan Anand] USCF profile
</syntaxhighlight>
will be displayed as
* {{fide|id=5000017|name=Viswanathan Anand}}
* {{Chessgames player|12088|Viswanathan Anand}}
* [http://www.365chess.com/players/Viswanathan_Anand Viswanathan Anand] chess games at 365Chess.com
* [http://www.olimpbase.org/players/mw0k8ogi.html Viswanathan Anand] team chess record at OlimpBase.org
* [http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Anand,%20Viswanathan.html Viswanathan Anand] FIDE rating history, 1984-2001 at OlimpBase.org
* [http://www.benoni.de/schach/elo/elohis.html?id=5000017 Viswanathan Anand] FIDE rating history at benoni.de
* [http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/PlayerProfile.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S003424000000111000000000001310100 Viswanathan Anand] at [[Chessmetrics]]
* [http://main.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12465315 Viswanathan Anand] USCF profile

There are perhaps still 1000 chess players to do, and it looks like there will be more than enough to do for quite some time. A full list of chess players is found [[List_of_chess_topics#Biographical_articles| here]], although a shorter list like [[List of chess grandmasters]] might be more interesting to work through.

=== Openings ===
A template has been created to display an infobox for chess openings. See [[Template:Infobox chess opening]] for an example and instructions on how to use it. For a list of chess openings see [[List of chess openings]] and [[List_of_chess_topics#Opening_articles]].

=== Barnstar ===
The template [[:Template:Chess Barnstar]] has been created to be awarded to Wikipedians who have accomplished something great for the coverage of chess on Wikipedia.