User:Andreas Kaufmann
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My name is Andreas Kaufmann and I live in Germany. I work as a software engineer in Synopsys and my hobby is chess and chess variants.
My contributions
= Chess and chess variants =
Articles I have started:
- Mathematical chess problem
- Capablanca random chess
- Chaturaji
- Chess handicap
- Chess with different armies
- Crazyhouse
- Dark chess
- Hexagonal chess
- Janus chess
- Kaissa
- Knight relay chess
- Legan chess
- Los Alamos chess
- Marseillais chess
- Minichess
- Pocket mutation chess
- Three checks chess
- Three-handed chess
Articles, which were extended by me:
= Software engineering =
My other user pages
- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Andreas_Kaufmann User page on en.wiktionary]
- [http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Benutzer:Andreas_Kaufmann User page on de.wiktionary]
- [http://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:Andreas_Kaufmann User page on ru.wiktionary]
- [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Andreas_Kaufmann User page on MetaWiki]
- [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Andreas_Kaufmann User page on Wikimedia Commons]
- [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Andreas_Kaufmann User page on WikiBooks]
- [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:Andreas_Kaufmann User page on WikiQuote]
Useful stuff
= Add link to a book =
{{Wikipedia-Books|Data structures}}
= How to add an image =
= Redirect an article =
- REDIRECT Name of page
= Redirect a category =
{{category redirect|Writers}}
= How to use a chess diagramm template =
Here is how I typically use a chess diagramm template. I usually copy one of text fragments given below and modify as needed. More information about template usage can be found on Template_talk:Chess_diagram.
== Chess diagramm ==
{{Chess diagram|=
| tright
|
|=
8 |rd|nd|bd|qd|kd|bd|nd|rd|=
7 |pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|=
6 | | | | | | | | |=
5 | | | | | | | | |=
4 | | | | | | | | |=
3 | | | | | | | | |=
2 |pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|=
1 |rl|nl|bl|ql|kl|bl|nl|rl|=
a b c d e f g h
| Chess. Starting position
}}
== Chess variant with uncheckered board ==
{{Chaturanga diagram|=
| tright
|
|=
|rd|nd|bd|kd|qd|bd|nd|rd|=
|pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|=
| | | | | | | | |=
| | | | | | | | |=
| | | | | | | | |=
| | | | | | | | |=
|pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|=
|rl|nl|bl|kl|ql|bl|nl|rl|=
|Shatranj. Inital position.
}}
== Chess problem ==
{{Chess diagram|=
| tright
| Eric Angelini
Europe Echecs 433, Apr. 1995|=
8 | | | | | | | | |=
7 | | | | | | | | |=
6 | | | | | | | | |=
5 | | | | | | | | |=
4 | | | | | | | | |=
3 | | | | | | | | |=
2 | | | | | | | | |=
1 | | | | | | | | |=
a b c d e f g h
| Black to move. What did White just play? Typical example of retrograde analysis problem.
}}
= References =
Here are the sources I use in articles on chess variants:
- {{cite book | author=Murray, H.J.R. | title=A History of Chess |publisher=Benjamin Press (originally published by Oxford University Press)| year=1913 | ISBN=0-936-317-01-9}}
- {{cite book | author=Pritchard, D. | title=The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants|publisher=Games & Puzzles Publications | year=1994 | ISBN=0-9524-1420-1}}
- {{cite book | author=Pritchard, D. | title=The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants
|publisher=John Beasley | year=2007 | ISBN=978-0955516801}}
- {{cite book | author=Pritchard, D. | title=Popular Chess Variants|publisher=Bastford Chess Books | year=2000 | ISBN=0-7134-8578-7}}
- {{cite book | author=Lasker, Edward. | title=The Adventure of Chess|publisher=Dover Publications, Inc. | year=1959 | ISBN=0-486-20510-X}}
Here is the text to copy and paste:
{{cite book | author=Murray, H.J.R. | title=A History of Chess
|publisher=Benjamin Press (originally published by Oxford University Press)| year=1913 | ISBN=0-936-317-01-9}}
{{cite book | author=Pritchard, D. | title=The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants
|publisher=Games & Puzzles Publications | year=1994 | ISBN=0-9524-1420-1}}
{{cite book | author=Pritchard, D. | title=The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants
|publisher=John Beasley | year=2007 | ISBN=978-0955516801}}
{{cite book | author=Pritchard, D. | title=Popular Chess Variants
|publisher=Bastford Chess Books | year=2000 | ISBN=0-7134-8578-7}}
{{cite book | author=Lasker, Edward. | title=The Adventure of Chess
|publisher=Dover Publications, Inc. | year=1959 | ISBN=0-486-20510-X}}
This can be used in ... tags (provided there is {{reflist}} at the bottom of article).
Also can be used with and when used in several places.
See also: Wikipedia:Footnotes
Interesting links
- [https://www.wikishark.com/ Wikipedia article traffic statistics]