[reposted w/ blanked check] I WON MY FIRST CHESS TOURNAMENT!! USCF U1450 with 4.5/5 and $800 prize 🥰4mo ⋅ sms42069 ⋅ r/chess
Top comment picks the next move, legal or not. Day 20, part 2: 10. fghxfgh4, b28mo ⋅ scurlocc ⋅ r/chess
Was about to start staining this board when I realized I made a huge and incredibly stupid mistake.9mo ⋅ CorbinMillerDRC ⋅ r/chess
Knight moves - a simple table I made showing the importance of keeping your knights near the middle1yr ⋅ IconicIsotope ⋅ r/chess
Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, and Hikaru Nakamura at 2004 World Chess Championship1yr ⋅ seanclmn1 ⋅ r/chess
I have been teaching my 6th graders how to play chess in class, and our school secretary just found all of this for me in a storage closet!1yr ⋅ trolley_dodgers ⋅ r/chess
How can such a talented man devote his life to something like chess? Albert Einstein on Emanuel Lasker.11mo ⋅ destructive69420 ⋅ r/chess
Today, in the Magnus Invitational, the two strongest speed chess palyers in the world drew their game in the Bongcloud.1yr ⋅ Slartibartfast342 ⋅ r/chess
The question that haunted me for so long is now finally answered by the legend himself. I can sleep peacefully now.1yr ⋅ Deva161 ⋅ r/chess
Recently started playing and my Mum told me I could have her Uncle's Chess Set he used nearly 100 years ago. Everything is hand carved/painted and the pieces are heavily weighted. Not a single piece is missing either.1yr ⋅ 111010111101011111 ⋅ r/chess
Meet King Enigma. An anonymous Spanish guy that challenges people on the streets of Madrid, giving 100 euros to the one that gets to beat him.7mo ⋅ Daviduxer ⋅ r/chess
I looked at a million games played on Lichess and counted how many times checkmate occurred on each square1yr ⋅ atlas_scrubbed ⋅ r/chess
Played today in Simultaneous exhibition against Anatoly Karpov. Once in a live time experience.6mo ⋅ salinations ⋅ r/chess
My family didn't understand why this made me so mad (from a small art exhibition)10mo ⋅ Eshet_Lot ⋅ r/chess
Happy birthday to Anna Muzychuk, three times female world champion, three times female european champion, fourth woman to cross the 2600 Elo rating1yr ⋅ GiorgioPerlasca ⋅ r/chess
Made a chess set over the holidays with some leftover hardware and a piece of plywood. Turned out better than I was expecting!4mo ⋅ ManUnderRock ⋅ r/chess
Just got a signed board from none other than GM Viswanathan Anand. Best day of my life!!1yr ⋅ theibgrindneverstops ⋅ r/chess
Just won my first ever chess tournament, I got a free book and $20 bucks.5mo ⋅ thunderthefox101 ⋅ r/chess
Magnus Carlsen, world chess champion, in a hot tub, playing lichess titled arena, straming on Twitch.9mo ⋅ lonely_years ⋅ r/chess
Magnus and Hikaru showing great respect to each other after their epic finale1yr ⋅ Existential_Toaster ⋅ r/chess
My grandfather was a photographer and just let me know today that he took this picture of Karpov and Kasparov.3mo ⋅ Theostrichmann ⋅ r/chess
Following up on wholesomeness, here is John Bartholomew replying to my email when I was barely starting to play chess!1yr ⋅ notinterestingenough ⋅ r/chess
My girlfriend gave me this beautiful handmade chessboard for Christmas1yr ⋅ AligeroFolletto ⋅ r/chess
Advice to Chess Beginners - from the January 1933 issue of Chess Review magazine1yr ⋅ city-of-stars ⋅ r/chess
Met Garry Kasparov over zoom as he was judging for his daughter's debate tournament lol1yr ⋅ MyAimIsPotato_ ⋅ r/chess
Met Garry Kasparov at the Grand Chess Tour Bucharest and he signed my chessboard!1yr ⋅ PixelPowerYT ⋅ r/chess
I don’t know a lot about chess, but my grandmother Carol Jarecki was a chess arbiter for 15 years, and was the head arbiter for the Kasparov / Deep Blue match in 1996, and did so many things in the chess community. Last night she passed peacefully in her sleep. Here’s remembering a great woman.1yr ⋅ -georgie ⋅ r/chess
Countries with a chess opening named after them or after a city in that country9mo ⋅ teringkak ⋅ r/chess
Yasser Seirawan turns 61.He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979.1yr ⋅ edwinkorir ⋅ r/chess
First photo Ian posted on his Instagram on 24-11-2014. And the exact same date, 7 years later these two will fight for ultimate glory, the World Championship.1yr ⋅ Black_Pantha_ ⋅ r/chess
I won 43 tournament-size chess sets (no boards) at auction for $14... what do I do with them ? ?3wk ⋅ the_kareshi ⋅ r/chess
Hikaru's stream raises $130K for humanitarian aid in Ukraine, with the help of Shevchenko, Shtembuliak, Finegold, Rudolf, Bartholomew, Sachdev, Rosen, Nemsko, Emelianova, Bok, and Rensch2mo ⋅ DrunkLad ⋅ r/chess
The admin of a 40k supernatural / conspiracy theory facebook group posted himself playing chess (to look smart I guess). Find at least 6 reasons why it's impossible to reach this position.1yr ⋅ personalbilko ⋅ r/chess
In late May 2003, with the Taliban in hiding and staging an insurgency war, International Security Assistance Force soldiers and Afghan men and women competed in a chess tournament in Kabul. As immortalized here by photo-journalist Darren McCollester9mo ⋅ destructive69420 ⋅ r/chess
My opponent blundered mate in 1 AND made it so my only legal moves led to checkmate.1yr ⋅ brssnj93 ⋅ r/chess
r/chess (white) vs stockfish (black), vote on a move in the comments, the most popular move will be played tomorrow.1yr ⋅ reda84100 ⋅ r/chess
Did you know that chess is a mandatory school subject across Armenia for every child over the age of 6.1yr ⋅ Erorr_in_brain ⋅ r/chess
Prison chess set from the 1950s - made out of toilet paper, dried bread and shoe paste.1yr ⋅ Bananhej ⋅ r/chess
Happy birthday to Ju Wenjun, the current Women's World Chess Champion, the fifth woman to cross the 2600 Elo barrier1yr ⋅ GiorgioPerlasca ⋅ r/chess
I made an open-source cheat sheet for most common openings to teach myself what can transpose into what1yr ⋅ rtec-piorunujaca ⋅ r/chess
Mildly interesting: When you do a regular google search, you see Goooooooooogle at the bottom of the screen, where you go to next pages. But when you search chess, you see ♔♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♘♗♖.10mo ⋅ tchubaina ⋅ r/chess
TIL Lichess dot org has a chess captcha. You have to checkmate in order to prove you are human. Neat.8mo ⋅ Severe_Sweet_862 ⋅ r/chess
I know we're not the biggest fans of his personality, but can this get some love?1yr ⋅ KindaDeadlyMouse ⋅ r/chess
I'm working on a project to show statistics for players based on Lichess and chess.com games. Here is an example for Hikaru. Would you use it if this was a website?1yr ⋅ ThomasPlaysChess ⋅ r/chess
I just completed the woodpecker method! I did a 10 week 6 cycle method. In 30 days I did 352 tactics. Then proceeded to those 352 in 15 days, 8 days, 4days....... Saturday I did all 352 in 7 hours. Most brutal thing I’ve done in chess. I love this game!!!9mo ⋅ Count-Basie ⋅ r/chess
Giving my gf’s daughter (8y/o) her first chess lesson... She played 3 games in a row with me and took to it quickly!1yr ⋅ california_king ⋅ r/chess
How Mark Taimanov trained for his Candidates match vs. Bobby Fischer (credit Andrew Soltis)5d ⋅ TensionMask ⋅ r/chess
NBA player Steven Adams responds with a photo of a smothered mate when asked how he's feeling about the league returning to play1yr ⋅ Tron_Little ⋅ r/chess
Introduced chess to my daughter - first thing she does is have the Kings and Queens have a tea party1yr ⋅ HervPrometheus ⋅ r/chess
Three world champions? Four world champions! (Karpov, Carlsen, Spassky, Smyslov)11mo ⋅ crockycrow ⋅ r/chess
Appreciation post for Ian Nepomniachtchi. I'm sure he'll come up stronger than before. Already winning the candidates was a big achievement. We love you Ian ❤️5mo ⋅ ComprehensiveSoil949 ⋅ r/chess
White to move and mate in 6 (You can't play a wrong move, you literally CAN'T)3mo ⋅ Clomath ⋅ r/chess
A breakdown of chess.com paid features, and what free alternatives exist AFAIK5mo ⋅ bluecjj ⋅ r/chess
Norway is making a pixel art of Magnus Carlsen. Let’s pitch in and help those guys complete and defend it.1mo ⋅ nothingright1234 ⋅ r/chess
Ding Liren Can now play in the candidates after playing 26 games in less than a month.1mo ⋅ edwinkorir ⋅ r/chess
Huge props to Chess.com for a great stream layout for the Candidates. You can customize your own layout and choose between 7 different cameras.1yr ⋅ emetophilia ⋅ r/chess
Here is my trophy collection after two years of competitive chess all over Sweden1yr ⋅ S-THE-GR8 ⋅ r/chess
My great great grandfathers handcrafted chess set (~1870) which I recently got for my birthday this year1yr ⋅ xSwagstantin ⋅ r/chess
GM Aronian and Mamedyarov partying (2007), showing the world that all bitterness between their native countries can be forgotten on the dance floor.1yr ⋅ JollyBloke ⋅ r/chess
My girlfriend is in rehab. The clinic where she is interned has lost the chess pieces so we have decided to model our own game in cold porcelain. Next Sunday on our next visit we have to paint the black pieces.8mo ⋅ artate ⋅ r/chess
Happy birthday to GM Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi, who will challenge Carlsen to become world champion11mo ⋅ GiorgioPerlasca ⋅ r/chess
If I could just operate on Hikaru’s level for one day. (Screenshot from yesterday’s puzzle survival with Levi)1yr ⋅ Dr___Krieger ⋅ r/chess
GothamChess fans went out mass reporting Chess.com account of a retired professional chess player after he beat GothamChess live on Twitch1yr ⋅ TheHoodieGuy02 ⋅ r/chess
Welp I guess I just won't play rapid on chess.com anymore.. the cheating has gotten so bad.1yr ⋅ SuperSpeedyCrazyCow ⋅ r/chess
Jose Raul Capablanca giving a 30 board simul in Berlin, June 1929 (colored by Olga Shirnina)1yr ⋅ atopix ⋅ r/chess
I looked up the World Chess Hall of Fame on google maps... did the Street View car catch Levon Aronian?10mo ⋅ nukeychess ⋅ r/chess
Anatoly Karpov playing an exhibition game at the XVIII Komsomol Congress, in 1978.1yr ⋅ kvothei ⋅ r/chess
Poor male IM's, I didn't know Chess24 had the same discriminatory policy as nightclubs.1yr ⋅ BobbyBoljaar ⋅ r/chess
This layout is so stupid, a CHESS tournament and the chess part is the smallest thing in the corner11mo ⋅ seine-16 ⋅ r/chess
My mother won this chess set by coming 2nd at a Bosnian Republic competition in the late 1970s7mo ⋅ F1reLi0n ⋅ r/chess
Magnus Carlsen wins the July Lichess Titled Arena by a massive 15 points. He never berserked a single game.11mo ⋅ edwinkorir ⋅ r/chess
Yesterday, Praggnanandhaa became just the third Indian player to ever defeat Magnus Carlsen in a chess game of any format.3mo ⋅ rakesh_85 ⋅ r/chess
