chess variant

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chess variant

Summary

chess variant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (149 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • chess variant's image is recorded as Chess for Three - Hexagonal Board.jpg[2].
  • chess variant's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85023130[3].
  • chess variant's subclass of is recorded as chess[4].
  • chess variant's subclass of is recorded as game variant[5].
  • chess variant's part of is recorded as chess[6].
  • chess variant's has use is recorded as fairy chess[7].
  • chess variant's Commons category is recorded as Chess variants[8].
  • chess variant's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0c_5_[9].
  • chess variant's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Chess variants[10].
  • chess variant's Library of Congress Classification is recorded as GV1458[11].
  • chess variant's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://chess.stackexchange.com/tags/chess-variants[12].
  • chess variant's has list is recorded as list of chess variants[13].
  • chess variant's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03260937n[14].
  • chess variant's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11bwdmbmy9[15].
  • chess variant's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007285066005171[16].
  • chess variant's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 변형 체스[17].
  • chess variant's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/46552556-3bf1-4e18-9f23-7555ea76bba1[18].

Why It Matters

chess variant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (149 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . id.loc.gov. id.loc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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