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Morphy numbers needs sourcing or trimming

Morphy number has several lists of Morphy numbers for particular players. Most players in the lists are not supported by a cited source, and we should improve sourcing or trim or perhaps remove the lists. Personally I would favor better sourcing combined with a slight trim as the list includes some chess officials and IMs who I don't find particularly notable in this context. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morphy_number&action=history and User Talk:Quale#Morphy number. What do you think? Can we improve the sourcing for these lists, or should they be removed? Quale (talk) 04:23, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

A good thing would be to find a game between the pair in checcgames.com. But that seems like it would take a lot of work, unless someone can automate it. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 05:14, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

I thought we had a consensus that articles like List of people who have beaten Paul Morphy in chess and List of people who have beaten José Raúl Capablanca in chess (links to the AfDs) were not suitable topics for Wikipedia. If that consensus has not changed, these Morphy number lists are equivalent to lists of people who have played (not even beaten) Paul Morphy in chess, or Adolf Anderssen, or Henry Bird, etc., and are plainly unsuitable. Cobblet (talk) 20:57, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Does anyone have access to Deutsche Schachzeitung copies from 1988?

I've been working on a new article for the Chess World Cup 1988–1989 and translated some material from the German article. Unfortunately, the text references two 1988 issues of Deutsche Schachzeitung (6 and 12). I can't find online copies and the only borrowable print copies I can find are in libraries in Germany and Austria, which I have no access to. If anyone is able to verify the sources, I would be grateful.

Also, I assume that, if no one is able to access the sources to verify the text, it should be removed from the article in the future. Is that correct? I'm a new editor so I don't have enough experience to judge for myself. Em-as-in-emily (talk) 19:24, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Maybe you could reach out to German wikipedia on the talk page of that article? Most Germans are good at English and they might be able to provide the info. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 22:49, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Good idea, I'll do that. Em-as-in-emily (talk) 23:15, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much for creating an article on this tournament – it fills an omission that others have noticed since the very beginning of this WikiProject. I've verified and corrected the statements using other sources, e.g., Timman played Karpov, not Kasparov, in the exhibition game. Cobblet (talk) 14:31, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Wonderful, thank you very much! Em-as-in-emily (talk) 20:28, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Is Olimpbase.org dead?

I have noticed for the last few days that olimpbase.org appears to be dead. Does anyone know if this is temporary or permanent? A load of player articles use this to give details of players' Olympiad performances. Revision would be really painful unless there is a bot which adds archive.org versions of pages. Adpete (talk) 00:33, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

I see on my screen, "Hosting in maintenance / This site is temporarily unavailable". olimpbase has been erratic for months now, so perhaps this message means that somebody is actually trying to fix the problem. I wouldn't give up on it just yet. But it would certainly be a catastrophe for Wikipedia chess if that site became permanently dead. Bruce leverett (talk) 01:16, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

It's back up now. Cobblet (talk) 03:53, 22 February 2026 (UTC)