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The result was Keep. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-14 11:54Z

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Advanced Chess appears to be the name used by a very small group to describe computer-assisted chess. Of the few references cited, at least one calls it ocmputer-assisted chess, not Advanced Chess. A measure of its significance is that the Advanced Chess Association uses a free webhost and does not even have its own domain name. The article seems to be written form personal knowledge, and is essentially unreferenced save for the aforementioned associations. This should either be significantly rewritten, referenced and moved to computer-assisted chess, or deleted. Guy (Help!) 15:19, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Question Well, the page does mention some relationship to Gary Kasparov so if true, that would establish enough that I'd go with mergemake that keep though with some concerns, but I don't know if it is true. Have you contacted the folks at WP:Chess to see if any of them know better? FrozenPurpleCube 16:34, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Just a follow-up, I posted on their discussion page, hopefully we'll get some informed comments. FrozenPurpleCube 16:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Well, thank you, FrozenPurpleCube. Chessbase.com, a reputable information source, has this page about AC - I added the link into the article. This means for me that this chess variant is notable enough to stay here. Therefore keep.--Ioannes Pragensis 19:53, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• keep on the basis of the chessbase page.--Pan Gerwazy 21:52, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as an established chess variant that has been played several times in elite events by the top grandmasters. Also keep the current article name; the most important chess competition where this is played (Cuidad de Leon) does indeed bill the game as "advanced chess". --SubSeven 01:10, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Further comments Reviewing the page, apparently, it's sourced from somewhere else, but with a license that while it may be compatible with the GFDL and wikipedia, also may not. I think somebody needs to check that out, and see if it would be worth starting this article over from a clean slate if the license, such as it is, is a concern. FrozenPurpleCube 06:16, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy keep -- needs properly referenced from [1] and [2], not deleted. Invented by no less than Garry Kasparov, and dominated since by Vishy Anand, one of the best three players in the world for most of the past fifteen years. The big event in Leon has seen many of the world's best players take part, including Veselin Topalov, Peter Leko and Alexei Shirov.[3] --DeLarge 09:40, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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