Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chess stacking

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The result was Delete. Rjd0060 (talk) 19:19, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chess stacking[edit]

Contested PROD. Article started as a non-notable article about stacking chess pieces on top of each other for sculpture, with no references. It has since been added to, to include "Russian Chess", a Russian variant of chess. The reference for that mentions nothing about chess stacking as a term and a google search on "Russian Chess" brings up lots of hits about playing chess in Russia. I can find nothing meaningful about either the game or the "art form". Nominate to delete. Roleplayer (talk) 22:12, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete It's a neologism apparently coined by Youtube, according to the first few google hits (not that the ghits are important necessarily). There are no sources that can verify notability and therefore fails WP:V, WP:NEO and WP:OR. PeterSymonds (talk) 22:18, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. JJL (talk) 22:37, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - It's the type of thing you expect to read in a BCM Christmas issue. I've played a variant of this where you stack as many pieces on top of one (btw not sure that 'Chess stacking' was the name) but don't recall reading any literature on it. It might possibly be in the Guinness world records. SunCreator (talk) 00:19, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete unless it can be shown to be notable. At this point, I fail to see the notability. Bubba73 (talk), 02:44, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral (or really leaning towards delete), but it is not a Youtube neologism. The August 1987 issue of Chess Life has the activity of stacking chess pieces on the front cover, along with a several page long article. (This provoked anger from a chess teacher in a later Letters to the Editor, along the lines of "when my students get bored they start stacking pieces on top of one another, then I tell them that chess is a game of class and if they want to stack things, they should go to Kindergarten and find some wooden blocks to play with. Now what does Chess Life find to be a cute idea...?") Still, this really has very little to do with chess, and is not a widespread activity. The August 1987 Chess Life was really more in the class of human interest stories you find in a newspaper. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:03, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete No evidence of it being notable. A search of google ([1]) gives nothing reliable. Buc (talk) 09:15, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral Found a number of sites about it, but nothing that seems notable. It's more a human interest then an Encyclopedic topic, which is more likely called 'Chess piece stacking' or 'Chess Sculpture'. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL. I suspect the most notable thing is the August 1987 issue of Chess Life given by Sjakkalle, but I'm unsure if that makes it notable or not.

Some online links http://blog.azureabstraction.com/date/2007/06/ [2] [3] [4] SunCreator (talk) 09:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per Bubba73. SyG (talk) 18:18, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Stacking the pieces is the sort of thing kids do when bored; not unlike buiding towers from playing cards or dominoes. I don't regard any of it as notable in the least. Brittle heaven (talk) 10:42, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.