User:SyG

I was born in Sélestat. I have lived in La Vancelle, Thanvillé, Strasbourg, Zoufftgen, Courbevoie, Paris, London, Munich, Lausanne, Lugrin.

I've been to:

• Austria
• Belgium: Brussels
• Cyprus: the Greek part
• Czech Republic: Prague, one of the most beautiful cities I have seen in the world
• Ecuador: whole country including Amazonia apart from the west coast
• Egypt: down the Nile
• England: the whole country, but mostly London
• French exotic islands: La Réunion, Martinique
• Germany: Munich, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Frankfurt
• Greece: Athens
• Israel: Tel Aviv
• Italy: whole country, especially Rome, Sicily, Elba, Milan
• Luxembourg
• Monaco
• Morocco
• Madeira
• Netherlands: Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• Portugal
• Senegal
• Spain: Barcelona and Alicante
• Switzerland
• Tunisia
• Turkey: mostly Istanbul
• United States: Washington D.C., California, Nevada, Arizona
• Vietnam

• I believe Wikipedia should not include all the information available in the universe.
• I believe 90% of articles currently on Wikipedia are not really notable from an encyclopaedic viewpoint.
• I believe Wikipedia should allow commercial advertisements.
• I believe Wikipedia is currently not efficient, as the gigantic work of millions of people has only resulted in about 5000 articles of quality, and most of them are on unimportant topics.
• I believe I should not engage actions based on the beliefs above.

Budapest Gambit
King's Indian Defence, Four Pawns Attack
List of chess books

• Café gourmand
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Review
• Portal:Chess/Selected article list

Here are the pages I have helped to bring to a class of quality (meaning FA-class, A-class or GA-class) one way or another, usually by doing some reviews on it and/or bringing it to the appropriate review.
First-move advantage in chess
George H. D. Gossip
Bughouse chess
Ashot Nadanian
Alexander Alekhine
Budapest Gambit
Emanuel Lasker
Howard Staunton
Rules of chess

Hereunder are the barnstars I have given, for the great work these guys have performed:

• The Minor Barnstar to User:ZeroOne at 11:41, 15 August 2007 here
• The Special Barnstar to User:Henrik 09:57, 9 February 2008 here
• The Working Man's Barnstar to User:SunCreator at 20:29, 7 March 2008 here
• The Content Creativity Barnstar to User:Krakatoa at 08:08, 3 May 2008 here
• The Content Creativity Barnstar to User:Philcha at 21:44, 28 May 2008 here
• The Working Man's Barnstar to User:Voorlandt at 18:32, 13 August 2008 here
• The Half Barnstar to User:Philcha and User:Krakatoa at 08:30, 1 September 2008 here and there
• The Writer's Barnstar to User:Bubba73 at 18:35, 29 November 2008 (UTC) here