I thought this may be of some interest to forum members. The following are those English language wikipedia articles (judged to have some chess content) that were registering the highest numbers of hits during April this year, number 1 being the most popular. I have just appended the top 200.
A few surprises ... Glenn Flear top English player ... anyone know why?
1, Benjamin Franklin (talk) 2, Stanley Kubrick (talk) 3, Chess (talk) 4, Humphrey Bogart (talk) 5, Magnus Carlsen (talk) 6, Marcel Duchamp (talk) 7, Bobby Fischer (talk) 8, Board game (talk) 9, Vladimir Nabokov (talk) 10, World Chess Championship 2013 (talk) 11, Elo rating system (talk) 12, Viswanathan Anand (talk) 13, Garry Kasparov (talk) 14, Through the Looking-Glass (talk) 15, Rules of chess (talk) 16, Chess piece (talk) 17, The Seventh Seal (talk) 18, List of child prodigies (talk) 19, Checkmate (talk) 20, Round-robin tournament (talk) 21, Stalemate (talk) 22, Kenneth Rogoff (talk) 23, Grandmaster (chess) (talk) 24, Deep Blue (chess computer) (talk) 25, History of chess (talk) 26, Pawn (chess) (talk) 27, Eight queens puzzle (talk) 28, Glenn Flear (talk) 29, World Chess Championship (talk) 30, En passant (talk) 31, Shogi (talk) 32, Chess opening (talk)33, Xiangqi (talk)34, Zugzwang (talk)35, Sicilian Defence (talk)36, Chessboard (talk)37, Chess (musical) (talk)38, Endgame (TV series) (talk)39, Rook (chess) (talk)40, Comparison of top chess players throughout history (talk)41, Castling (talk)42, José Raúl Capablanca (talk)43, Vladimir Kramnik (talk)44, Taxicab geometry (talk)45, Judit Polgár (talk)46, Glossary of chess (talk)47, Beersheba (talk)48, The Turk (talk)49, Samuel Reshevsky (talk)50, Ruy Lopez (talk)51, CJ de Mooi (talk)52, Knight (chess) (talk)53, Computer chess (talk)54, Gambit (talk)55, Anatoly Karpov (talk)56, Chess boxing (talk)57, Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov (talk)58, John McCarthy (computer scientist) (talk)59, Three-dimensional chess (talk)60, Levon Aronian (talk)61, Knight's tour (talk)62, Fritz (chess) (talk)63, Mikhail Tal (talk)64, Fresh (1994 film) (talk)65, Fool's mate (talk)66, Alexander Alekhine (talk)67, Chess960 (talk)68, Bishop (chess) (talk)69, Bonar Law (talk)70, Queen (chess) (talk)71, Chess strategy (talk)72, List of chess grandmasters (talk)73, World Chess Championship 2012 (talk)74, Chess rating system (talk)75, Serzh Sargsyan (talk)76, Joshua Waitzkin (talk)77, List of chess openings (talk)78, FIDE (talk)79, King (chess) (talk)80, Immortal Game (talk)81, Boris Spassky (talk)82, Swiss-system tournament (talk)83, Chess piece relative value (talk)84, Draw (chess) (talk)85, French Defence (talk)86, Veselin Topalov (talk)87, Queen's Gambit (talk)88, Chess engine (talk)89, Hikaru Nakamura (talk)90, Chess Titans (talk)91, Scholar's mate (talk)92, Searching for Bobby Fischer (talk)93, Geri's Game (talk)94, Chaturanga (talk)95, Vassily Ivanchuk (talk)96, Natan Sharansky (talk)97, Lewis chessmen (talk)98, Fast chess (talk)99, Chess endgame (talk)100, Emanuel Lasker (talk)101, Chess variant (talk)102, Algebraic notation (chess) (talk)103, Peter Svidler (talk)104, Promotion (chess) (talk)105, Chessmaster (talk)106, Sergey Karjakin (talk)107, The Game of the Century (chess) (talk)108, King's Gambit (talk)109, Staunton chess set (talk)110, English Opening (talk)111, Robert Byrne (chess player) (talk)112, First-move advantage in chess (talk)113, Paul Morphy (talk)114, Fabiano Caruana (talk)115, King's Indian Defence (talk)116, Chess notation (talk)117, Battle Chess (talk)118, Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (talk)119, Chess prodigy (talk)120, FIDE World Rankings (talk)121, Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (talk)122, World Chess Championship 1972 (talk)123, Chess symbols in Unicode (talk)124, Tigran Petrosian (talk)125, Susan Polgar (talk)126, Mikhail Botvinnik (talk)127, Teimour Radjabov (talk)128, Shatranj (talk)129, Fairy chess piece (talk)130, Anish Giri (talk)131, Boris Gelfand (talk)132, World Youth Chess Championship (talk)133, Queen's Gambit Declined (talk)134, Glicko rating system (talk)135, Game clock (talk)136, Aron Schvartzman (talk)137, Alexander Grischuk (talk)138, Fianchetto (talk)139, Hou Yifan (talk)140, Nigel Short (talk)141, Gata Kamsky (talk)142, Candidates Tournament (talk)143, Checkmate pattern (talk)144, Chess Olympiad (talk)145, Chess tournament (talk)146, List of world records in chess (talk)147, Alexander Roshal (talk)148, Human–computer chess matches (talk)149, FIDE Grand Prix 2012–2013 (talk)150, Chess master (talk)151, Wesley So (talk)152, Houdini (chess) (talk)153, Endgame tablebase (talk)154, List of chess games (talk)155, Rybka (talk)156, Classical World Chess Championship 1995 (talk)157, Portable Game Notation (talk)158, Swindle (chess) (talk)159, Nimzo-Indian Defence (talk)160, List of FIDE chess world number ones (talk)161, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (talk)162, King's Indian Attack (talk)163, List of female chess players (talk)164, Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation (talk)165, Chebyshev distance (talk)166, Wilhelm Steinitz (talk)167, Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation (talk)168, Three-player chess (talk)169, Thomas Bowdler (talk)170, Fifty-move rule (talk)171, Alexander Morozevich (talk)172, Knights of the South Bronx (talk)173, Caro–Kann Defence (talk)174, Benoni Defense (talk)175, Slav Defense (talk)176, Pawn structure (talk)177, Pirc Defence (talk)178, Open Game (talk)179, Viktor Korchnoi (talk)180, Threefold repetition (talk)181, Kasparov versus the World (talk)182, Check (chess) (talk)183, Ruslan Ponomariov (talk)184, Shannon number (talk)185, Indian Defence (talk)186, Bishop and knight checkmate (talk)187, Richard Farleigh (talk)188, Alekhine's Defence (talk)189, Queen's Gambit Accepted (talk)190, Deep Thought (chess computer) (talk)191, Correspondence chess (talk)192, Blindfold chess (talk)193, Scotch Game (talk)194, Stonewall Attack (talk)195, Frank Marshall (chess player) (talk)196, Chess title (talk)197, Réti Opening (talk)198, Time control (talk)199, King's Pawn Game (talk)200, List of people who have beaten Garry Kasparov in chess (talk)
Statistics: Posted by Colin Patterson — Sat May 18, 2013 1:51 am