User talk:JECompton~enwikibooks

Chess Opening Theory
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 * No problem at all. :) --hagindaz 05:29, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Good to see you at the Opening Theory wikibook, my friend! This is the first time two people working on this project have been active at the same time. I had great visions for this wikibook a few months ago: I was responsible for it detaching from the Chess wikibook, and I was doing the content single-handed for a short while (basic e4 lines) until university exams left me short of spare time. But I'm back!

You've been doing a lot of work on the d4 openings. Are you keen to carry on with that? The simplest division of labour, until we get more people showing an interest, would be: I do e4, you do d4/c4.

I had a convention going that the only links leaving a page should be to moves immediately following that position, and that each move should appear only once as a link and thereafter as plain text. E.g. on your 1. d4 page, 2. e4 is not a move immediately playable, it's just something White is thinking about (and probably won't play), so it should not be linked. I don't feel that I've explained that very well... the point is that the user must select the Black response before selecting the White response to the Black response, otherwise the user doesn't know where the Black response has come from. That still doesn't explain it very well. Can you see what I'm getting at? As for each move appearing only once as a link, I feel it helps to impose some sort of visible structure on the information (I have tended to indent the links too) and it is consistent with Wikipedia. I prefer for example one paragraph discussing 1...Nf6 followed by one paragraph discussing 1...d5 etc. This isn't as important and we can come to a consensus.

It is imperative that White moves contain a space: 2. e4. This is because otherwise the page title is an unbroken string of characters, and as I discovered, once you get to about the fifth move you start descending into side-scrolling hell. I had to rename every page in the wikibook, in a long afternoon, for that reason. It's a bit of a fudge, but so is the Universe.

I generally can't be bothered with the theory tables, and have left them out of the e4 pages I've done. Maybe someone new will come along and fill those in. I think being able to see the board position is much more important. But I admire your persistence with them.

What I'm keen for us to do is keep a rough diary of our contributions on the main discussion page, because with the labyrinthine structure of this wikibook, newly written pages may not be noticed otherwise.

I want to rewrite the main page as a priority. Right now it's a rambling mess full of jargon. I want to include a quote from Chernev. Watch this space...

Hope to get some work done with you in the near future. Chi Sigma 23:59, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

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