Talk:List of Internet chess servers

This article was nominated for deletion on 5 February 2013 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

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Deletion of "unreliable" sources

The references I provided were deleted and an Unreferenced tag added. Even if it were true that the sources are unreliable, this is rather heavy handed. Better to tag the article with Refimprove and discuss reliability of sources here. However, I suggest taking a closer look at WP:USERG: "Self-published material may sometimes be acceptable when its author is an established expert whose work in the relevant field has been published by reliable third-party publications." Susan Polgar, a chess grandmaster, satisfies those criteria. RockMagnetist (talk) 17:40, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Lichess

It's an interesting one, it's free and open source, developed in Scala by a French software developer named Thibault Duplessis. There are no ads, you don't need to download anything, you don't even need to register. As far as I can tell he pays the $170 per month hosting costs out of his own pocket, with the odd donation. For some reason it is very popular in Iran. MaxBrowne (talk) 05:23, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- I also suggest, to add lichess.org to the list. Marquis4057 (talk) 19:36, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Chesstempo

This is popular service about chess training. What you think about it? Dawid2009 (talk) 18:09, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Think about it in what sense? As in is it a good service? Or should it be included here? Lists like this tend to defer to articles to be the venue where notability is discussed. In other words, if we have an article about it, include it; if not, maybe write the article first? — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 21:07, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Chessworld.net

Hi Guys

Maybe www.chessworld.net can't be listed because it is not important enough. But please can I (as webmaster, yes I am biased) at least ask here for future consideration especially if the list of servers grows in the future - there are some review sources like ICCF e.g. https://amici.iccf.com/issues/issue_08/issue_08_ChessWorld_net_review.html - a lot of ICCF players and GMs have used it over the years. But if it is not important enough, please just confirm here, and I will have to accept that. There are more important things to worry about.

Best wishes Tryfon Gavriel

Kingscrusher (talk) 10:04, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Kingscrusher: Wikipedia has very few lists which attempt to be exhaustive (think discographies, lists of presidents, etc.). Everything else is a list of notable examples, and "notable" for our purposes typically means "has an article on Wikipedia". It's not excluded because it's not important, but because it doesn't have an article (which can be considered a kind of importance, but based more on the existence of coverage in reliable sources than some objective sense of what does/doesn't matter). — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 14:21, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Outdated terminology

Years ago, the name "chess server" made sense, but these days it's not so relevant. Yes, ICC and FICS are chess servers, but it's hard to call e.g. lichess or chess.com a chess "server". I'd like to move this to list of internet chess platforms. Any objections? — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 17:32, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]