List of chess terms

Quality:

Glossary of chess - Wikimedia glossary list article. Article “List of chess terms” in Simple English Wikipedia has 49.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 116 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “List of chess terms”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5164^th place) and edited by 1084 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 116 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4325 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #189 in August 2016
• Global: #5402 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #162 in August 2015
• Global: #9518 in November 2020

There are 22 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, 2026 (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	Korean (ko) 체스 용어 목록		98.796
2	English (en) Glossary of chess		97.1404
3	Catalan (ca) Glossari de termes d'escacs		61.0556
4	French (fr) Glossaire du jeu d'échecs		55.7123
5	Simple English (simple) List of chess terms		49.6495
6	Russian (ru) Глоссарий шахматных терминов		45.2598
7	Swedish (sv) Schacktermer		43.3991
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thuật ngữ cờ vua		42.1067
9	Azerbaijani (az) Şahmat terminlərinin lüğəti		41.4965
10	Ukrainian (uk) Глосарій шахових термінів		33.3193

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Glossary of chess		7 703 886
2	Russian (ru) Глоссарий шахматных терминов		1 342 918
3	Simple English (simple) List of chess terms		387 955
4	Japanese (ja) チェス用語一覧		325 503
5	French (fr) Glossaire du jeu d'échecs		273 481
6	Portuguese (pt) Glossário de enxadrismo		252 154
7	Swedish (sv) Schacktermer		188 818
8	Italian (it) Glossario scacchistico		153 154
9	Hungarian (hu) Sakkban használt fogalmak listája		130 416
10	Korean (ko) 체스 용어 목록		79 004

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Glossary of chess		25 460
2	Russian (ru) Глоссарий шахматных терминов		1 949
3	Japanese (ja) チェス用語一覧		793
4	Swedish (sv) Schacktermer		539
5	French (fr) Glossaire du jeu d'échecs		510
6	Simple English (simple) List of chess terms		367
7	Portuguese (pt) Glossário de enxadrismo		334
8	Italian (it) Glossario scacchistico		322
9	Catalan (ca) Glossari de termes d'escacs		253
10	Hungarian (hu) Sakkban használt fogalmak listája		252

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Glossary of chess		425
2	Russian (ru) Глоссарий шахматных терминов		105
3	Dutch (nl) Schaken van A tot Z		76
4	French (fr) Glossaire du jeu d'échecs		61
5	Portuguese (pt) Glossário de enxadrismo		50
6	Ukrainian (uk) Глосарій шахових термінів		49
7	Italian (it) Glossario scacchistico		43
8	Simple English (simple) List of chess terms		36
9	Japanese (ja) チェス用語一覧		33
10	German (de) Schach-Glossar		27

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Glossary of chess		6
2	Finnish (fi) Luettelo shakkitermeistä		1
3	French (fr) Glossaire du jeu d'échecs		1
4	Korean (ko) 체스 용어 목록		1
5	Arabic (ar) مسرد الشطرنج		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Şahmat terminlərinin lüğəti		0
7	Catalan (ca) Glossari de termes d'escacs		0
8	German (de) Schach-Glossar		0
9	Galician (gl) Termos relacionados co xadrez		0
10	Hungarian (hu) Sakkban használt fogalmak listája		0

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

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