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Named Chess Openings/Book style
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This page is about the style that should be used for opening articles in book Named Chess Openings.
Naming conventions
All Named Chess Openings articles must follow the same naming conventions.
All articles must begin with the same namespace: Named Chess Openings
Then followed by the name of the opening, for example: Named Chess Openings/Polish Opening
or
Named Chess Openings/King's Knight Opening: Normal Variation
You must not end at the variation but instead write the entire opening name (from lichess.org) to avoid ambiguity. For example: Named Chess Opening/Sicilian Defense: Amazon Attack
instead of
Named Chess Openings/Amazon Attack
Some openings have the exact same name. For example, to disambiguate between the two Gedult Gambits, you may add "(with [last move of line)]" and use: Named Chess Openings/Barnes Opening: Gedult Gambit (with 3. Nc3)
or, for the other Gedult Gambit:
Named Chess Openings/Barnes Opening: Gedult Gambit (with 4. c3)
Some openings are continuations of the same opening that are named by lichess. For example, 1. e4 is called the King's Pawn Game, and 1. e4 e5 is also called the King's Pawn Game. To fill gaps that may be made by ignoring such openings, you may add "([continuation past end of main opening/variation] continuation)" at the end and use: Named Chess Openings/King's Pawn Game (1...e5 continuation)
while the normal 1. e4 opening would be:
Named Chess Openings/King's Pawn Game
Page layout
All Named Chess Openings opening articles must follow the same layout:
OPTIONAL: Named Chess Openings-specific templates if article needs it. See this page for information on templates.
{{Chess diagram}} at the top to show the position
Section Introduction and Ideas, about the opening name and its main idea(s).
Section History, about the history of the opening and the name origin.
Section Main Moves, about the 3-4 most common moves for the opening in the Lichess database and all named replies (named replies must be linked to corresponding opening entry)
Section Statistics, about the approximate winrates (White wins, Black wins, draw) of the opening according to Lichess.
Section ECO code, about the ECO code of the opening.
Section References which will contain template {{reflist}}.
{{Named Chess Openings/contribguide}} to help contributors learn the book's style and templates.
{{BookCat}} to add the page to the category Book:Named Chess Openings.