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These diagrams need to be standardized. --malathion talk 23:48, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
"A queen, a rook, a bishop, or a knight". Not a king! -- Curps 11:30, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
I believe that the article, in fact all articles, are better off without animated images. In chess articles, there is no need for them, since a diagram with arrows can illustrate moves quite well. Wikipedia doesn't need distractions like this. --Yath 21:40, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
In matter of fact, I strongly believe in the use of animated ilustration in an electronic Encyclopedia like this one, and your point about being distracted by this kind of image it's a sort of POV, in fact no one else made an observation like this one before. Jfreyre
I've often thought there very much should be animations on the chess articles, but on the other hand I think it would be more useful if there were a way for the reader to control them, and I don't think this is really feasible. For now it's probably best to leave things as is. --Jammoe 22:10, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
on many browsers you can press escape to stop all animated gifs Skullers (talk) 08:12, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
"Pawns may not use the initial two-square advance to jump over an occupied square, but it can be used to capture." What?!? I've never, ever, ever, ever heard this, or seen it. Pawns capturing straight ahead? Clarify? Fix it? What? --Jammoe 22:12, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
may be i'm wrong but I heard that you can claim for a pawn when it reaches the 8th rank...so the pawn gets back to the original square..for example if you promote in d8 it gets back to d2, this would be illegal if d2 it's occupied.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.19.89.23 (talk) 20:51, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
This article contradicts itself regarding when the en passant move was added to the game. The section describing it says late thirteenth century, but the History section says that the double opening move was not added until the 15th century. Can anyone cite references for either date? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.117.187 (talk) 06:43, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
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I don't understand why you tagged my statement "a player might have the opportunity to trap an enemy piece using his pawn structure" with "citation needed", saying "this doesn't make much sense to me". How does it not make sense? There's a diagram illustrating it (the Noah's Ark Trap) right there on the page. - furrykef (Talk at me) 13:21, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
The "Weakness as strength" section is problematic - starting with the title. The sentence about weakness is a strength makes no sense. The rest of the section really has little or nothing to do with the subject of the section. The diagram of the fork and the sentence about the fork doesn't say much. The diagram and sentence about Noah's Arc trap is OK, but it doesn't belong in this section. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 16:21, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
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I don't believe that the list of chess pieces included in the article should be in the Movement Section. Even then, at a 1024x768 resolution, the reference of the first paragraph seems misleading as shown here with this screenshot, due to the positioning of said list. 108.168.105.54 (talk) 15:48, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
It's typically confusing to newcomers, so that s/ be a guide to editing. (E.g. the para size is intimidating; could be reduced by 1/2. The following phrase is unnecessary & potentially confusing, s/b eliminated: en passant preserves the restrictive ability of pawns that have reached the fifth rank.) IHTS (talk) 00:20, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
There are rook pawns, knight pawns, bishop pawns, and center pawns in chess. But the pawns can change their file. It can happen because they capture enemy pieces diagonally. The question is: if, for example, a white originally rook pawn, which started the game on a2, reaches e file, will it remain a rook pawn or become a center one? If it's the former, then it means some Wiki articles have inexactities and should be corrected, e. g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_and_pawn_versus_king_endgame — Key square — rook pawn — it can originally be a knight, or a bishop pawn etc. However, if it's the latter, then I wonder how the players differentiate between multiple pawns which stand on the same file (how to name them without ambiguity?). E. g. you can call any c or f file pawn "bishop pawn", but there can be more than one pawn on that file at the same time. 89.149.122.128 (talk) 07:02, 13 May 2018 (UTC)