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Chess960 - chess variant invented by Bobby Fischer. Article “Chess960” in English Wikipedia has 79.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 96 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.8 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Chess960” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Chess960”, its content was written by 442 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1208 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 304 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1435 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1991 in July 2003
• Global: #3596 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10386 in October 2022
• Global: #8515 in October 2022

There are 36 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) Chess960		79.154
2	Hebrew (he) שחמט 960		46.472
3	Russian (ru) Шахматы Фишера		43.3488
4	Armenian (hy) Ֆիշերի շախմատ		42.7074
5	Dutch (nl) Schaak 960		41.8248
6	German (de) Schach960		39.7478
7	Chinese (zh) 菲舍爾任意制象棋		28.3644
8	Norwegian (no) Fischersjakk		25.6195
9	Catalan (ca) Escacs aleatoris de Fischer		25.2877
10	Lithuanian (lt) Šachmatai 960		25.0591

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chess960		3 252 803
2	Russian (ru) Шахматы Фишера		922 237
3	German (de) Schach960		424 127
4	Spanish (es) Ajedrez aleatorio de Fischer		307 889
5	French (fr) Échecs aléatoires Fischer		165 854
6	Polish (pl) Szachy 960		137 516
7	Japanese (ja) チェス960		114 187
8	Italian (it) Scacchi960		102 994
9	Norwegian (no) Fischersjakk		99 799
10	Portuguese (pt) Xadrez de Fischer		95 687

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) Chess960		16 219
2	Russian (ru) Шахматы Фишера		5 058
3	German (de) Schach960		2 342
4	French (fr) Échecs aléatoires Fischer		1 590
5	Spanish (es) Ajedrez aleatorio de Fischer		1 218
6	Italian (it) Scacchi960		677
7	Persian (fa) شطرنج۹۶۰		523
8	Portuguese (pt) Xadrez de Fischer		507
9	Indonesian (id) Catur960		466
10	Japanese (ja) チェス960		371

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chess960		442
2	German (de) Schach960		121
3	Russian (ru) Шахматы Фишера		86
4	French (fr) Échecs aléatoires Fischer		79
5	Italian (it) Scacchi960		50
6	Spanish (es) Ajedrez aleatorio de Fischer		49
7	Portuguese (pt) Xadrez de Fischer		36
8	Danish (da) Fischer Random skak		31
9	Hebrew (he) שחמט 960		31
10	Chinese (zh) 菲舍爾任意制象棋		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) Chess960		5
2	German (de) Schach960		1
3	Finnish (fi) Shakki960		1
4	Norwegian (no) Fischersjakk		1
5	Polish (pl) Szachy 960		1
6	Russian (ru) Шахматы Фишера		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Chess960		1
8	Chinese (zh) 菲舍爾任意制象棋		1
9	Arabic (ar) شطرنج 960		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Şahmat960		0

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

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