Talk:Grand Chess

message: Is it OK if I put a link to something on my own web page, which was written by the world champion of Grand Chess.  It is his extensive (and I mean extensive) notes on a world championship game he played of Grand Chess against the reining world champion, and is available here.  I think the link is relevent to this page, but will not put the link in the encyclopedia entry myself because of the "no self-promotion" rule.  Samboy 21:17, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no one has said anything either way for over a month, I have just added the link in question.  If anyone removes it because they feel it is self-promotion, I will respect their wishes.  Samboy 23:42, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The link doesn't work correctly in Internet Explorer. Can you please check? Andreas Kaufmann 11:33, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed (IE really ought to honor the content type instead of trying to guess it itself; Apache really ought to not send out content types for documents with unknown extensions--a consequence of the old UNIX tradition of "if it doesn't have a special extension, it's probably a plain text file". Samboy 21:19, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Old talk

message: I undone move of this article into Capablanca Chess. These variants are very different, there is no sense to place it there. Andreas Kaufmann 15:37, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capablanca Chess and Grand Chess 

message: I take it that white would capture en passant when his pawn is at the 7th rank? Obuibo Mbstpo (talk) 02:25, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I assume it would be on the sixth rank, since a black pawn could move from the 8th to 6th rank (from White's perspective).  Bubba73 (talk), 00:47, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  En passant 

message: Here are some WP:RS references for this game:
* R. Wayne Schmittberger's book New Rules for Classic Games described this game favorably
* David Pritchard's book Encyclopedia of Chess Variants also described this game
* The August 1997 issue of Chess Life talks about this game, showing sample games
* Also appears to be mentioned in a 1987 issue of Games magazine
I would like to see these references added to the article, but don't have time to learn Wikipedia's format for citing references. Just to clarify (talk) 17:44, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It helps to have the year, publisher, and ISBN number.  Then you can use something like the following
* 
which gives
* 
You can also give page numbers (often good).  There is also a slightly more sophisticated "citation".  
*
*
The "citation" can handle inline author/date links but I don't think the first one can.  Bubba73 (talk), 18:25, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some references 

message: Thanks for the cleanup with the references we have.  Now, my issue is this.  DreamGuy doesn't think the references are good enough.  I think they are, for the simple reason they're pretty much all of the articles and mentions in books out there for Grand Chess.  I know the ill-fated Abstract Games Magazine had some articles on Grand Chess, and this link, by Burt Hochberg (who also wrote the Chess Life article back in 1997) mentions Grand Chess, but I can't think of anything else that mentions Grand Chess.
What DreamGuy is asking for is something that doesn't exist: Other references for Grand Chess.  If you don't think these references are good enough to merit a Wikipedia article, go ahead and put this article on the VFD block (vote for the article to be deleted).  But these references are all that there is out there, and it's a lot more references than exist for most Chess Variants.
Just to clarify (talk) 06:38, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is a reference (courtesy the web archive, since the magazine died a couple of years ago) showing that the ill-fated Abstract Games Magazine had an article called "The Grand Chess Corner" Just to clarify (talk) 06:45, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Do you know the title of the Burt Hochberg article in Chess Life?  Bubba73 (talk), 13:50, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The article was called "Don't be Scared, It's Still Chess" (took a bit of poking around to find its name), and I've updated the page accordingly. Just to clarify (talk) 16:14, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some more about the references 

message: Just in case this article gets put on the VFD block, here are four places where one can play Grand Chess online:
* http://www.mindsports.nl/index.php/arena/grand-chess/
* http://brainking.com/en/GameRules?tp=74
* http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/grandchess.html
* http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/presets/grand_chess.html
Just to clarify (talk) 18:03, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Playing Grand chess online 

message: The promotion at the pawn-line is reminiscent of shogi and its large variants. Double sharp (talk) 03:10, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Promotion zone