List of chess terms

Quality:

Glossary of chess - Wikimedia glossary list article. Article “List of chess terms” in Simple English Wikipedia has 50.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 116 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “List of chess terms”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4801^st place) and edited by 992 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 118 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4244 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #189 in August 2016
• Global: #5393 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #162 in August 2015
• Global: #9574 in December 2020

There are 20 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	English (en) Glossary of chess		96.1437
2	Catalan (ca) Glossari de termes d'escacs		61.0532
3	French (fr) Glossaire du jeu d'échecs		55.4712
4	Simple English (simple) List of chess terms		50.9071
5	Swedish (sv) Schacktermer		43.5119
6	Russian (ru) Глоссарий шахматных терминов		43.4769
7	Azerbaijani (az) Şahmat terminlərinin lüğəti		41.5214
8	Norwegian (no) Sjakktermer		32.3647
9	Portuguese (pt) Glossário de enxadrismo		32.1002
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Sjakkterminologi		32.0266

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Glossary of chess		7 358 256
2	Russian (ru) Глоссарий шахматных терминов		1 167 675
3	Simple English (simple) List of chess terms		383 637
4	Japanese (ja) チェス用語一覧		315 732
5	French (fr) Glossaire du jeu d'échecs		258 414
6	Portuguese (pt) Glossário de enxadrismo		247 514
7	Swedish (sv) Schacktermer		182 188
8	Italian (it) Glossario scacchistico		148 173
9	Hungarian (hu) Sakkban használt fogalmak listája		123 699
10	Korean (ko) 체스 용어 목록		76 622

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		32 516
2	Russian (ru) Глоссарий шахматных терминов		3 197
3	Simple English (simple) List of chess terms		2 574
4	Portuguese (pt) Glossário de enxadrismo		966
5	Swedish (sv) Schacktermer		762
6	French (fr) Glossaire du jeu d'échecs		747
7	Japanese (ja) チェス用語一覧		698
8	Hungarian (hu) Sakkban használt fogalmak listája		410
9	Italian (it) Glossario scacchistico		400
10	German (de) Schach-Glossar		309

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		399
2	Russian (ru) Глоссарий шахматных терминов		101
3	Dutch (nl) Schaken van A tot Z		75
4	French (fr) Glossaire du jeu d'échecs		59
5	Portuguese (pt) Glossário de enxadrismo		50
6	Italian (it) Glossario scacchistico		41
7	Simple English (simple) List of chess terms		36
8	Japanese (ja) チェス用語一覧		33
9	German (de) Schach-Glossar		26
10	Hungarian (hu) Sakkban használt fogalmak listája		26

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		4
2	Catalan (ca) Glossari de termes d'escacs		1
3	Hungarian (hu) Sakkban használt fogalmak listája		1
4	Japanese (ja) チェス用語一覧		1
5	Arabic (ar) مسرد الشطرنج		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Şahmat terminlərinin lüğəti		0
7	German (de) Schach-Glossar		0
8	Finnish (fi) Luettelo shakkitermeistä		0
9	French (fr) Glossaire du jeu d'échecs		0
10	Galician (gl) Termos relacionados co xadrez		0

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

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