Carlsen is the heavy betting favorite against Nakamura in tomorrow’s SCC final.1yr ⋅ FlippityFloppityBing ⋅ r/chess
Visually, this endgame looks dead lost for white, but there is a genius way to force a draw. White to play.9mo ⋅ mym0j0s0d0pe ⋅ r/chess
Ding Liren falls below Nepomniachtchi in live rating! This is the first time Nepo is World #2!1yr ⋅ LjackV ⋅ r/chess
Bobby Fischer’s grave in Laugardælir, Iceland! There is also a nearby museum of his life/career.1yr ⋅ nickelbop ⋅ r/chess
The only puzzle of its kind that I could find on the lichess puzzle database: white to move1yr ⋅ coolestblue ⋅ r/chess
This position was reached 68 times at the Master level... and 100% of those games ended in a draw. Welcome to the Exchange French.3yr ⋅ ChessPlayerr4 ⋅ r/chess
Firouzja knocks out Hikaru while Nodirbek takes down Fabiano in Day 2 of the 2023 ChessKid Cup1yr ⋅ BKtheInfamous ⋅ r/chess
On the first day of Freestyle GOAT Chess Challenge, the 4 youngsters scored a combined 9.5/12 against the 4 veterans. The veterans failed to win a single match against the quartet of Keymer, Gukesh, Nodirbek and Alireza.3mo ⋅ shubomb1 ⋅ r/chess
Evaluating the value of every piece in a given position, would it be interesting when spectating/analyzing?2yr ⋅ John_A_Doe ⋅ r/chess
Mateusz Bartel defeats Hans Niemann in round 7 of the London Chess Classic after Hans blunders completely winning position5mo ⋅ yoda17 ⋅ r/chess
Alireza Firouzja returns to classical chess 8 months after winning Sinquefield Cup 2022 (and with it - Grand Chess Tour 2022). He will play Superbet Chess Classic Romania (May 6 - May 15) and Norway Chess 2023 (May 30 - Jun 9). How do you think he will perform?1yr ⋅ sick_rock ⋅ r/chess
TIL that Chahal, a professional Cricketer, is also an avid Lichess enjoyer. What other international level athletes do you know are into Chess?1yr ⋅ Tufolic ⋅ r/chess
Playing the Queen's Gambit at the Methuen Orphanage (Schloss Schutzendorf, Brandenburg, Germany)3yr ⋅ hipcatjazzalot ⋅ r/chess
Getting excited for Tata Steel 2022. Made a preview crosstable showing the head-to-head scores of all the contestants in classical matches from the last 5 years2yr ⋅ EfficientZone ⋅ r/chess
Exactly 20 years ago, Viswanathan Anand won his first World Champion title after defeating Alexei Shirov 3.5-0.53yr ⋅ LaureateAt17 ⋅ r/chess
A chess.com tournament(10 day/move) finished after a whole decade recently(link in comments)4yr ⋅ TheUltimateSwindler ⋅ r/chess
Nepo laughs from incredulity after technical issue with the clock that led to the agreement of a draw1mo ⋅ yatagan89 ⋅ r/chess
Chess Fun Fact: In The Simpsons, Magnus Carlsens coaches Homer chess in the episode The Cad and the Hat, it was also magnus Carlsen himself who dubbed the series in english.1yr ⋅ Kelowna1337 ⋅ r/chess
New gold plan not including analysis and game report seems like a extremely bad thing. Thoughts?1yr ⋅ killspree1011 ⋅ r/chess
“America’s brightest talent” defeated by “America’s Sammest Shankland” in round 7 of Sharjah Masters4d ⋅ yoda17 ⋅ r/chess
A Painting depicting a fantasy game between Bobby Fischer and Magnus Carlsen.1yr ⋅ edwinkorir ⋅ r/chess
(fixed) White to move and win in two. Ben Finegold discusses this position in one of his scholastic lessons. I was stunned with this one!3yr ⋅ fernleon ⋅ r/chess
In a game I just played, my opponent played Qd4 threatening mate and it looks devaststing, but what did he miss? (Black to play)9mo ⋅ filthydestinymain ⋅ r/chess
[OC] The number of moves it would take a knight to get to a square, inspired by u/newsradio_fan. Link in comments.1yr ⋅ GoatmealEnjoyer ⋅ r/chess
Magnus elaborates on his previous tweets after his round 2 loss at the Qatar Masters8mo ⋅ BKtheInfamous ⋅ r/chess
With around 50 minutes each, both Le Quang Liem and Vincent Keymer miss a checkmate in 2. White to play and win:11mo ⋅ GeologicalPotato ⋅ r/chess
I played edible chess today for the very first time. Rule: Every piece taken is eaten.3yr ⋅ WaleedDaGr8 ⋅ r/chess
How do you guys determine whether a Greek gift sacrifice is sound or not?11mo ⋅ Icy-Tumbleweed9467 ⋅ r/chess
Yikes! Caruana misses a rather straightforward mate in 63 on move 68. Is it time to start asking whether he deserves to be in the championship match?5yr ⋅ dingledog ⋅ r/chess
I think its so f**king cool that chess competitions show stats like these nowadays1yr ⋅ Addrat91 ⋅ r/chess
12 year old Kasparov, and Karpov giving the simul. Leningrad, 1975 was the first encounter between these two.2yr ⋅ NajdorfGrunfeld ⋅ r/chess
The latest FIDE poll shows that the vast majority of top women's players believe that there will be female world champion in the future2mo ⋅ Total_Woodpecker_912 ⋅ r/chess
Jose Martinez “not enjoying” the event. Wishes he didn’t have to play on.3mo ⋅ Finnthehumangumball ⋅ r/chess
Played one game ten years ago and it’s messing up my graph. Any way to delete it?5mo ⋅ teachingroland ⋅ r/chess
I created a political compass for chess playstyle. Help me plot some points (players) on it!1yr ⋅ DopazOnYouTubeDotCom ⋅ r/chess
I'm white. Opponent resigned after I took his queen with my rook. Big mistake!10mo ⋅ SmoothGreenMedicine ⋅ r/chess
At 17 years, 1 month and 21 days of age, Gukesh D crosses 2750 for the first time11mo ⋅ GeologicalPotato ⋅ r/chess
r/chess vs. r/chessbeginners. You have 4 hours. The top comment is your move. You are black.11mo ⋅ noonebuteveryone24 ⋅ r/chess
When the opponent threatens a mate in 1 but also gifts a mate in 5. White to play and win!1yr ⋅ B0jJACKP0NYMAN ⋅ r/chess
Pretty little checkmate from today's Tata Steel challengers (Dardha v Shuvalova). White to move2yr ⋅ SandF ⋅ r/chess
Offered Black a draw which he rejected for some reason only to play Kf3 right after. Poor fellow3yr ⋅ eltomboi ⋅ r/chess
Cursed results: Aronian and MVL, two former 2800+ and recently top 10 players, are now rated below 27401yr ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
Magnus grinds Alireza down in drawn bishop knight endgame to win in Freestyle GOAT event3mo ⋅ Alternative_Clock364 ⋅ r/chess
In this position I played Ne6 - a losing move. Literally every other knight move holds a draw - please help me understand why10mo ⋅ Forward-Ad-1963 ⋅ r/chess
Mate in 3 for white thanks to Discovered Check (classic chess pattern #41, day 25)3yr ⋅ ilovegreatbooks ⋅ r/chess
On this day in 1978, Anatoly Karpov defeated Viktor Korchnoi 161⁄2-151⁄2 in Baguio City, winning one of the most bizarre and controversial world championship matches of all time.2yr ⋅ city-of-stars ⋅ r/chess
Got this puzzle on Lichess earlier today and thought it was clever. Black to move and mate in 3.3yr ⋅ Spanky4242 ⋅ r/chess
Peter Heine Nielsen claims Anish Giri lied about being hacked when a tweet from Anish's account accused PH of nasty things3mo ⋅ rederer07 ⋅ r/chess
Shown as a decoration on the TV show Survivor. Is there anything interesting or famous about this position?1yr ⋅ Pandas_In_Brooklyn ⋅ r/chess