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::::Also, the presence of chess Olympiad medal templates is not unique to Indian chess players. For example, see [[Vasyl Ivanchuk]] and [[Ruslan Ponomariov]]. [[User:Vajrayudhan|Vajrayudhan]] ([[User talk:Vajrayudhan|talk]]) 01:13, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
:::::@[[User:Bruce leverett|Bruce leverett]] Any thoughts on this? [[User:Imcdc|<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#40E0D0"> Imcdc</b>]] <span style="border-radius:8em;padding:2px 5px;background:#0151D2;font-size:75%">[[User talk:Imcdc|<span style="color:#FFF">'''Contact'''</span>]]</span> 01:04, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
::::::I recognize that, for our chess biographies as a whole, we do not have a consistent system for summarizing a player's major achievements in an easy to read form. For instance, in [[Magnus Carlsen]] we have a table of all his tournament finishes, but if the reader wants only to see his major successes, this table is too much. For most other players we don't have anything, and the reader can only try to digest the flat year-by-year narrative of the player's career.
::::::So a medal template for the infobox is an attempt to solve a genuine problem. But it has several flaws.
::::::A team medal earned in a team event may not reflect the player's performance; for example, if he fell sick and only played one game, he still gets the medal.
::::::A board prize earned in a team event may have been earned by facing a weak field. For example, the silver medal for second board in the recent Olympiad was won by a player who faced only eight opponents, of whom only three were rated above 2500.
::::::Most of the strongest tournaments do not award medals at all.
::::::Your suggestion of a "notable tournaments won" section could help with this. I assume that what you have in mind is something like [[Vasyl Ivanchuk#Notable tournament victories]]. I am dissatisfied that the medal table in the infobox and the notable tournaments section in the article text are not near to each other -- we almost make matters worse by putting them in places that do not have equal prominence and are not near to each other. [[User:Bruce leverett|Bruce leverett]] ([[User talk:Bruce leverett|talk]]) 05:01, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
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