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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Elizabeth'94 (talk | contribs) at 11:58, 17 March 2016. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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Happy editing! I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{Ping|I dream of horses}} to your message. (talk to me) (My edits) @ 05:57, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

March 2016

Hello, I'm Oshwah. I noticed that you made a change to an article, World Chess Championship 2016, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 04:22, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

Regarding "zero tolerance": Not going to argue it one way or the other, but Anand's zero tolerance situation was mentioned by Chess.com, covered on the blog of a former FIDE Rules Commission member (Shaun Press), also discussed extensively in comments on another well-known chess blog (S&B), with Chess Crimes weighing in too, already in the first day after. Seemed reasonably newsworthy to me. I felt it was important to catalogue it when it happened, especially as Chess.com seemed to be implying there was some benefice to Anand (after in italics), and the question of whether the arbiter (as Chess.com said) was the one to put the rule into effect was also in dispute. Probably two bulky paragraphs was (much) too long as a brief comment I admit, and at least the original citations were not sufficiently demonstrative (not sure which citations got lost/restored by the end with the various edits/undos and page splitting).

IMO, it's at least as important as other various trivia on the page (which I also admit could be junked). 129.78.68.110 (talk) 19:56, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sortable tables

Hi, you reverted my edit on the World Chess Championship 2016 where I had made the table sortable, arguing that "horizontal information would need to be resorted too". I'm not sure what you mean by that, but apparently you don't realize exactly how sortable wikitables work, so maybe you should read the Help:Sorting page. And one more thing: If you're going to be a serious contributor (and want to be taken seriously as such), you really need to create an account for yourself, rather than hiding behind an anonymous IP-adress... dllu (talk) 13:55, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Clearly sorting the table produced nonsensical results. Each player's game-versus-game info was based on the initial ordering, and this was broken by the "feature" of allowing the table to be sorted. See example below, if you don't understand why. Anyway, the table has been much improved IMO by now by someone knowing about a superior Module that was available (Module:Sports_table, which probably exists for exactly this sort of reason). Having an "anonymous" IP address is much more traceable than an effectively anonymous user name (which are also easily multiplied). Content is what should prevail, not whether some arbitrary "seriousness" criterion is applied. 129.78.68.110 (talk) 15:14, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Note that Anand has played Caruana, Aronian, and Topalov, in columns 2, 3, and 8. Upon sorting by (e.g.) Rating, Anand still has results in columns 2, 3, and 8, but now these refer to Karjakin, himself, and Caruana. Not as desired. (In particular, the diagonal should be grey, players don't self-play!) Moreover, as the original order was a bit arbitrary (results after round 2), it is impossible to reproduce without reloading (unless some trick exists that I don't know about).
Table as appeared with "sortable" tag[1]
Rank Player Rating
March 2016[2] 		1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points Tiebreaks
Head-to-head Wins
1  Vishwanathan Anand (IND) 2762 ½ ½ 1 2 0 1
4  Fabiano Caruana (USA) 2794 ½ ½ ½ 1½ 0 0
1  Levon Aronian (ARM) 2786 ½ ½ 1 2 0 1
4  Peter Svidler (RUS) 2757 ½ ½ ½ 1½ 0 0
1  Sergey Karjakin (RUS) 2760 ½ ½ 1 2 0 1
4  Anish Giri (NED) 2793 ½ ½ ½ 1½ 0 0
7  Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 2790 ½ ½ 0 1 0 0
8  Veselin Topalov (BUL) 2780 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0

Thanks for your great information at Candidates Tournament 2016. Do not get disappointed by the illegal remove of your content by Sfaarlaanes. I hope to see new contributions again. Please, excuse me for my bad English. Elizabeth'94 (talk) 11:58, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ "FIDE Candidates Tournament". Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  2. ^ "FIDE Top players – Top 100 Players March 2016". FIDE. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
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