User:Sophia91

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This user has significantly improved their vocabulary and thinks they are able to contribute with an advanced level of English, but may actually not.

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My main contribution to Wikiproject Chess is updating biographies of chess players. Between 2015 and 2017 I updated countless chess biographies, especially of those who don't get much attention in the anglosphere. I edited bios of virtually every world top 100 player and many female players. I also fixed a lot of mistakes, some of which were long-standing and even made their way into major chess sites. I added and amended several places of birth, taking the title applications at FIDE website as reference (these birth places have been copied by the site 2700chess.com), and also discovered the full name of some players (such as Gawain Jones, Pia Cramling, Tiger Hillarp Persson; I always back up info I add with references, but despite this, several editors couldn't be bothered to read the sources I added to Persson's forename and reverted the full name!). Lastly, the info I added to the uncountable chess bios I updated are often blatantly copy-pasted by major chess news sites, but without citing the source.

I heavily cleaned up List of nationality transfers in chess to make it an actual list of federation transfers.

I also improved the following artiles on national chess championship:

Ukrainian Chess Championship women's winners list: amended winners of 2008 and 2009, fixed first name of 1999 winner (from horribly google-translated "Hope" to her actual name Nadezhda!), add all winners since inception in 1935 from UKR chess federation;
Argentine Chess Championship: amended winners (since some years, the championship was postponed to the next year), added missing winners in women's championship;
Cuban Chess Championship: all women's winners 1965-2007;
Indian Chess Championship: added 2011 (which was missing) and fixed numbering, since in 2008 there were 2 championsihps (I added the second one);
Russian Chess Championship: added women's winners 1934-1989
Croatian Chess Championship: amended some winners, add missing locales, add playoffs locales, add missing winners and locales since inception (1992), as there were several empty cells

My biggest non-chess contribution is adding the full date and place of birth and the date of death of Anatoly Rasskazov, the first photographer to rush to the Chernobyl nuclear plant after the 1986 disaster.

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