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Chess

Quality:

Chess - strategy board game. Article “Chess” in Simple English Wikipedia has 94.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 65 references and 30 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 224th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 204th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 787th most popular in all topics.
The 190th most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 4304th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 2200th most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 852nd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Chess”, its content was written by 160 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (204th place) and edited by 10516 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (190th place).

The article is cited 528 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5042nd place) and cited 71494 times in all languages (2309th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #4 in March 2022
  • Global: #13 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #75 in January 2017
  • Global: #189 in November 2020

There are 55 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Hebrew (he)
שחמט
96.2667
2Norwegian (no)
Sjakk
95.8023
3Simple English (simple)
Chess
94.8971
4Ukrainian (uk)
Шахи
94.5385
5Italian (it)
Scacchi
93.5283
6Hungarian (hu)
Sakk
92.8964
7Portuguese (pt)
Xadrez
92.8637
8English (en)
Chess
91.8839
9Persian (fa)
شطرنج
91.4319
10Finnish (fi)
Shakki
87.2825
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Chess" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Chess
30 536 757
2Spanish (es)
Ajedrez
15 366 820
3Russian (ru)
Шахматы
6 868 267
4German (de)
Schach
6 216 088
5Portuguese (pt)
Xadrez
4 188 677
6French (fr)
Échecs
4 074 165
7Italian (it)
Scacchi
3 549 550
8Japanese (ja)
チェス
3 489 246
9Polish (pl)
Szachy
2 488 633
10Arabic (ar)
شطرنج
2 411 984
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Chess" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Chess
108 860
2Spanish (es)
Ajedrez
24 486
3Russian (ru)
Шахматы
16 437
4Chinese (zh)
國際象棋
16 212
5French (fr)
Échecs
15 280
6German (de)
Schach
14 102
7Japanese (ja)
チェス
9 406
8Italian (it)
Scacchi
8 029
9Portuguese (pt)
Xadrez
7 533
10Arabic (ar)
شطرنج
6 571
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Chess" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Chess
2 052
2German (de)
Schach
848
3Spanish (es)
Ajedrez
703
4French (fr)
Échecs
679
5Russian (ru)
Шахматы
450
6Italian (it)
Scacchi
426
7Hebrew (he)
שחמט
379
8Dutch (nl)
Schaken
364
9Portuguese (pt)
Xadrez
331
10Polish (pl)
Szachy
230
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Chess" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Spanish (es)
Ajedrez
11
2French (fr)
Échecs
6
3English (en)
Chess
5
4Hungarian (hu)
Sakk
4
5Chinese (zh)
國際象棋
4
6Persian (fa)
شطرنج
3
7Hebrew (he)
שחמט
3
8Italian (it)
Scacchi
3
9Urdu (ur)
شطرنج
3
10Arabic (ar)
شطرنج
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Chess" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Chess
8 542
2Russian (ru)
Шахматы
7 646
3French (fr)
Échecs
5 636
4German (de)
Schach
4 827
5Catalan (ca)
Escacs
3 965
6Polish (pl)
Szachy
3 574
7Italian (it)
Scacchi
3 302
8Spanish (es)
Ajedrez
3 000
9Ukrainian (uk)
Шахи
2 979
10Arabic (ar)
شطرنج
2 646
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
شطرنج
azAzerbaijani
Şahmat
beBelarusian
Шахматы
bgBulgarian
Шахмат
caCatalan
Escacs
csCzech
Šachy
daDanish
Skak
deGerman
Schach
elGreek
Σκάκι
enEnglish
Chess
eoEsperanto
Ŝako
esSpanish
Ajedrez
etEstonian
Male
euBasque
Xake
faPersian
شطرنج
fiFinnish
Shakki
frFrench
Échecs
glGalician
Xadrez
heHebrew
שחמט
hiHindi
शतरंज
hrCroatian
Šah
huHungarian
Sakk
hyArmenian
Շախմատ
idIndonesian
Catur
itItalian
Scacchi
jaJapanese
チェス
kaGeorgian
ჭადრაკი
kkKazakh
Шахмат
koKorean
체스
laLatin
Scacci
ltLithuanian
Šachmatai
msMalay
Catur
nlDutch
Schaken
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Sjakk
noNorwegian
Sjakk
plPolish
Szachy
ptPortuguese
Xadrez
roRomanian
Șah (joc)
ruRussian
Шахматы
shSerbo-Croatian
Šah
simpleSimple English
Chess
skSlovak
Šach (hra)
slSlovenian
Šah
srSerbian
Шах
svSwedish
Schack
taTamil
சதுரங்கம்
thThai
หมากรุกสากล
trTurkish
Satranç
ukUkrainian
Шахи
urUrdu
شطرنج
uzUzbek
Shaxmat
viVietnamese
Cờ vua
voVolapük
Cög
zhChinese
國際象棋
zhminnanMin Nan
Kok-chè chhiūⁿ-kî

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#75
01.2017
Global:
#189
11.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#4
03.2022
Global:
#13
03.2002

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Chess from Wikipedia articles about Grandmaster, Shogi, Castling, World Chess Championship and Chess opening. Whereas reading the article about Chess people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Chaturanga, Xiangqi, History of chess, Shogi and Rook.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: Chess
de: Schach
pt: Xadrez
pl: Szachy
id: Catur
fi: Shakki
hu: Sakk
simple: Chess
sv: Schack
cs: Šachy
no: Sjakk
hr: Šah
da: Skak
et: Male
ko: 체스
ms: Catur
sr: Шах
ca: Escacs
sl: Šah
sh: Šah
eo: Ŝako
la: Scacci
eu: Xake
gl: Xadrez
nn: Sjakk
vo: Cög

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