Undermining (chess)

Undermining - chess tactic in which a defensive piece is captured, leaving one of the opponent's pieces undefended or under-defended. Article “Undermining (chess)” in English Wikipedia has 16.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.85 points.

This article has the best quality in Bulgarian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Undermining (chess)”, its content was written by 20 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 49 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 524 times in English Wikipedia and cited 818 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #102375 in July 2018
• Global: #199306 in May 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #443809 in July 2008
• Global: #649158 in July 2008

There are 7 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Bulgarian (bg) Унищожаване на защитата		20.1421
2	English (en) Undermining (chess)		16.1405
3	Arabic (ar) توهين (شطرنج)		15.34
4	Ukrainian (uk) Знищення захисту (шахи)		14.5427
5	Russian (ru) Уничтожение защиты (шахматы)		9.1355
6	German (de) Vernichtung der Verteidigung		1.4559
7	Korean (ko) 언더마이닝		0.1639

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Undermining (chess)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Undermining (chess)		134 823
2	Russian (ru) Уничтожение защиты (шахматы)		28 154
3	German (de) Vernichtung der Verteidigung		8 707
4	Arabic (ar) توهين (شطرنج)		2 212
5	Korean (ko) 언더마이닝		1 615
6	Ukrainian (uk) Знищення захисту (шахи)		869
7	Bulgarian (bg) Унищожаване на защитата		81

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Undermining (chess)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Undermining (chess)		741
2	Russian (ru) Уничтожение защиты (шахматы)		36
3	Korean (ko) 언더마이닝		34
4	German (de) Vernichtung der Verteidigung		25
5	Arabic (ar) توهين (شطرنج)		14
6	Bulgarian (bg) Унищожаване на защитата		8
7	Ukrainian (uk) Знищення захисту (шахи)		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Undermining (chess)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Undermining (chess)		20
2	German (de) Vernichtung der Verteidigung		16
3	Russian (ru) Уничтожение защиты (шахматы)		4
4	Ukrainian (uk) Знищення захисту (шахи)		3
5	Arabic (ar) توهين (شطرنج)		2
6	Bulgarian (bg) Унищожаване на защитата		2
7	Korean (ko) 언더마이닝		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Undermining (chess)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) توهين (شطرنج)		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Унищожаване на защитата		0
3	German (de) Vernichtung der Verteidigung		0
4	English (en) Undermining (chess)		0
5	Korean (ko) 언더마이닝		0
6	Russian (ru) Уничтожение защиты (шахматы)		0
7	Ukrainian (uk) Знищення захисту (шахи)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Undermining (chess)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Undermining (chess)		524
2	Arabic (ar) توهين (شطرنج)		159
3	Korean (ko) 언더마이닝		85
4	Russian (ru) Уничтожение защиты (шахматы)		38
5	Bulgarian (bg) Унищожаване на защитата		7
6	Ukrainian (uk) Знищення захисту (шахи)		3
7	German (de) Vernichtung der Verteidigung		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic توهين (شطرنج)
bg	Bulgarian Унищожаване на защитата
de	German Vernichtung der Verteidigung
en	English Undermining (chess)
ko	Korean 언더마이닝
ru	Russian Уничтожение защиты (шахматы)
uk	Ukrainian Знищення захисту (шахи)

Best Rank

English: #443809 07.2008

Global: #649158 07.2008

Best Rank

English: #102375 07.2018

Global: #199306 05.2006

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