There must be some rule I just don’t know. How to mate in one as white?!1yr ⋅ Marked_as_read ⋅ r/chess
[reposted w/ blanked check] I WON MY FIRST CHESS TOURNAMENT!! USCF U1450 with 4.5/5 and $800 prize 🥰2yr ⋅ sms42069 ⋅ r/chess
Levy Rozman, aka GothamChess, reaches 3M Youtube subscribers, just 50 days after hitting 2M. Also hit 1M followers on TikTok within 3 months1yr ⋅ NepentheZnumber1fan ⋅ r/chess
Magnus Carlsen, before and after five world championship titles in classical chess:1yr ⋅ BKtheInfamous ⋅ r/chess
This is not how I expected to hit 1900. How big of a jump is this?11mo ⋅ Slow-Manufacturer-55 ⋅ r/chess
Somebody mentioned how Magnus was looking more and more like the Big Lebowski in a comment the other day so I asked midjourney to get to work. Excuse the chess boards.11mo ⋅ bellrub ⋅ r/chess
[Rozman] Levy Rozman, aka GothamChess, becomes the first chess YouTube channel to reach 2 million subscribers1yr ⋅ EB-OP ⋅ r/chess
You might have had a losing streak before. But have you ever played so bad that you got this message from lichess8mo ⋅ mekmookbro ⋅ r/chess
Hikaru Nakamura wins Norway Chess 2023, defeating Fabiano Caruana in an 11th-hour comeback11mo ⋅ BKtheInfamous ⋅ r/chess
My opponent resigned because he thought it was mate in 2. Turns out it was mate in 1 the other way.10mo ⋅ meCaveman ⋅ r/chess
The International Space Station crew is in a pretty close game with Mission Control. A move is called up/down during twice-daily planning calls.1yr ⋅ SkywayCheerios ⋅ r/chess
Top comment picks the next move, legal or not. Day 20, part 2: 10. fghxfgh4, b22yr ⋅ scurlocc ⋅ r/chess
Was about to start staining this board when I realized I made a huge and incredibly stupid mistake.2yr ⋅ CorbinMillerDRC ⋅ r/chess
I GOT UNBANNED!!Chesscom admitted their mistake and gave me a free 1 year diamond membership 1mo ⋅ casualredditor138 ⋅ r/chess
Throwback to when Magnus was voted among Sexiest Men of 2013 by Cosmopolitan1yr ⋅ StayAnonym ⋅ r/chess
I've never seen a game end like this before. Black to play the only legal move and win1yr ⋅ elvinpulpo ⋅ r/chess
Bobby Fischer with Susan Polgar in Hungary. Fischer loved that Polgar family kitten.1yr ⋅ edwinkorir ⋅ r/chess
Chess.com CEO hints Niemann is not disclosing the full extent of his online cheating.1yr ⋅ random_redditor00 ⋅ r/chess
Knight moves - a simple table I made showing the importance of keeping your knights near the middle3yr ⋅ IconicIsotope ⋅ r/chess
Ding embraced by his second Richard Rapport after his first ever world championship victory1yr ⋅ rederer07 ⋅ r/chess
Follow-up to my post about starting a pub chess club, we had 8 people show up for our first night! Including a National Master (the older gentleman closest right), I was very happy to lose to him.1yr ⋅ Blackadder288 ⋅ r/chess
Magnus Carlsen admitted to breaking Chess.com's fair play rules a lot in a Reddit AMA1yr ⋅ MembershipSolid2909 ⋅ r/chess
Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, and Hikaru Nakamura at 2004 World Chess Championship3yr ⋅ seanclmn1 ⋅ r/chess
How can such a talented man devote his life to something like chess? Albert Einstein on Emanuel Lasker.3yr ⋅ destructive69420 ⋅ r/chess
Today, in the Magnus Invitational, the two strongest speed chess palyers in the world drew their game in the Bongcloud.3yr ⋅ Slartibartfast342 ⋅ r/chess
My 6 year old keeps kicking my ass!!! It’s insane how quickly she picked up the game and got better than me in the process11mo ⋅ maaalicelaaamb ⋅ r/chess
I’m not a great player but I do work for a pub with a lot of casual chess interest, so I got the go-ahead to start a pub chess club!1yr ⋅ Blackadder288 ⋅ r/chess
The question that haunted me for so long is now finally answered by the legend himself. I can sleep peacefully now.3yr ⋅ Deva161 ⋅ r/chess
8-year-old Fabiano Caruana with his coach Bruce Pandolfini at Washington Square Park, New York1yr ⋅ RonnyDoug ⋅ 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.3yr ⋅ 111010111101011111 ⋅ r/chess
I thought I trapped my opponent's Queen. They thought so as well. Can you see what we both missed?9mo ⋅ ZaHandoUpYourAss ⋅ r/chess
Ian Nepomniachtchi's face when Ding Liren played Ng5 on move 12 in the World Chpionship Match Game 14.1yr ⋅ thepobv ⋅ r/chess
Why is this a draw by timeout vs insufficient material? I literally have forced mate in 1, clearly my material is sufficient.11mo ⋅ Only_Natural_20s ⋅ r/chess
This image of Ding in the side room thinking about his moves, just has an Eminem vibe about it.1yr ⋅ AnnihilationOrchid ⋅ r/chess
Garry Kasparov made the ceremonial move for the new world champion Ding Liren.1yr ⋅ tiago1500 ⋅ r/chess
Those of you who don't consider Magnus Carlsen the GOAT, what more does he need to do to beat your GOAT?11mo ⋅ ClassicPay887 ⋅ r/chess
10 year old Garry Kasparov plays Mikhail Tal at a simul in Moscow 25th March 19742yr ⋅ edwinkorir ⋅ 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.2yr ⋅ Daviduxer ⋅ r/chess
This is the most beautiful mate in 2 i ever did. Can You spot it? Happened in a real game(link in the comments)11mo ⋅ DirianaSpell ⋅ r/chess
Ivanchuk played a stellar move vs van Foreest today in the World Team Championship, moving the Knight to a square protected 5 times1yr ⋅ Ranlit ⋅ r/chess
I looked at a million games played on Lichess and counted how many times checkmate occurred on each square3yr ⋅ atlas_scrubbed ⋅ r/chess
Norway Chess: players were divided into teams to design knittable sweaters on the rest day!11mo ⋅ rederer07 ⋅ r/chess
Hikaru Nakamura, 2023, gives a huge double fist-pump after beating Magnus Carlsen (while wearing a I literally don't care shirt)1yr ⋅ BKtheInfamous ⋅ r/chess
Played today in Simultaneous exhibition against Anatoly Karpov. Once in a live time experience.2yr ⋅ salinations ⋅ r/chess
Young Bobby Fischer visiting Mikhail Tal in the hospital after he fell ill during the Curacao Interzonal in 1962.1yr ⋅ edwinkorir ⋅ r/chess
Now you will have to pay to play chess on chess.com during peak hours1yr ⋅ Perfect_Percentage ⋅ r/chess
I got a puzzle correct, and chess.com plummetted my rating from 2060 straight to 0. The hell?????11mo ⋅ RollingOwl ⋅ r/chess
My family didn't understand why this made me so mad (from a small art exhibition)2yr ⋅ Eshet_Lot ⋅ r/chess
Are there any gm’s who had a rating fall to 2300 after getting the title.11mo ⋅ Someguynamedneel ⋅ r/chess
Happy birthday to Anna Muzychuk, three times female world champion, three times female european champion, fourth woman to cross the 2600 Elo rating3yr ⋅ GiorgioPerlasca ⋅ r/chess
Hikaru retakes World No. 2 after defeating Aryan Tari in Round 5 of Norway Chess 202311mo ⋅ BKtheInfamous ⋅ 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!2yr ⋅ ManUnderRock ⋅ r/chess
