This puzzle from our university’s chess club stumped everyone at the club fair. Can you guys solve this?8mo ⋅ haley_the_comet ⋅ r/chess
A breakdown of chess.com paid features, and what free alternatives exist AFAIK2yr ⋅ bluecjj ⋅ r/chess
After both world championship contenders losing today, Firouzja has take a big lead at #2 spot in live ratings1yr ⋅ glancesurreal ⋅ r/chess
Today for the first time in the history of Titled Tuesday Magnus was able to beat Hikaru, he also won the Titled Tuesday.1yr ⋅ PH123d ⋅ r/chess
Ian blundered with Nd4 And Ding instantly sacrifices the exchange to punish the mistake!1yr ⋅ TheThinker4Head ⋅ r/chess
Ding Liren Spotted at Hangzhou Airport, En Route to Astana for World Championship Challenge!”1yr ⋅ BriefGap2741 ⋅ r/chess
Bobby Fischer Plays Inmates Of Rikers Island City Penitentiary, August 26, 1960. He defeated all 20 prisoners who played in the simul as 2400 more watched and the prison band entertained the crowd.1yr ⋅ edwinkorir ⋅ r/chess
A drawing done in a single continuous line of Carlsen Vs Nakamura, Ink on paper2yr ⋅ RobertBentleyArtist ⋅ r/chess
I managed to get all autographs from the grandmasters that competed in the Superunited Rapid & Blitz Croatia 2023 event! (Except for Kasparovs, he didn't come due to health issues)10mo ⋅ TinMafia ⋅ r/chess
Reminder: “When you see a good move, look for a better one.” Missed mate in 2.1yr ⋅ PeteyPabloNeruda ⋅ r/chess
I won my city's Chess Championship! Proud of this and thought I'd share.2yr ⋅ SuperSpeedyCrazyCow ⋅ r/chess
idk if this is allowed, but this is a great tactic i just had on lichess, just wanted to share cuz its kinda beatiful imo9mo ⋅ ichb4ckf1sch ⋅ r/chess
Magnus Carlsen defeats Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the SCC Semifinals, 17.0-9.01yr ⋅ BKtheInfamous ⋅ r/chess
The 0-1000 rated puzzles on chess.com have been training me for this exact scenario.2yr ⋅ Vistaf ⋅ r/chess
Hikaru cements his place as the top American and World number 5 in Classical after the American Cup with a live rating of 2775!1yr ⋅ rederer07 ⋅ r/chess
I haven't made the pawns yet but I just wanna know what do y'all think1yr ⋅ Unlikely-Wrap7792 ⋅ r/chess
Right hand of famous architect Mario Botta gifts him a chess table made of his buildings1yr ⋅ Sinsulancha ⋅ r/chess
Chess Super GMs arranged by their longevity. (Elo rating of 2750 and above taken as the cut off)1yr ⋅ glancesurreal ⋅ r/chess
A 12th-century fritware chess set from Nishapur, Iran. Missing just one black pawn, it is one of the oldest nearly complete chess sets ever discovered.1yr ⋅ rakesh_85 ⋅ 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.3yr ⋅ emetophilia ⋅ r/chess
White to mate in 3 (Magnus missed this against Vidit yesterday and eventually lost the game)1yr ⋅ billy8988 ⋅ r/chess
New piece set added to Lichess! Disguised, a piece set designed to help train board vision.1yr ⋅ danegraphics ⋅ r/chess
Alireza Firouzja received his French naturalization Certificate today : France helped me a lot and made me grow2yr ⋅ Finalcarry2 ⋅ r/chess
I dont know how impressive this is but I think this mate in 3 for white is sexy.9mo ⋅ betaraybills ⋅ r/chess
Hans Niemann blunders in 11 moves against a 2481 rated player. Black to play and win1yr ⋅ SSSupermanSS ⋅ r/chess
Wesley, Nepo, and Fedoseev visit Bobby Fischer’s grave during yesterday’s rest day1yr ⋅ BKtheInfamous ⋅ r/chess
Hikaru with his second, Kris Littlejohn: “Time to get back to real life by running a 5k in Stavanger!”11mo ⋅ BKtheInfamous ⋅ r/chess
My great great grandfathers handcrafted chess set (~1870) which I recently got for my birthday this year3yr ⋅ xSwagstantin ⋅ r/chess
It took my 5 mins to find this move. Mate in 2. Black to move. Guess the elo.9mo ⋅ LizardCups ⋅ r/chess
Here is my trophy collection after two years of competitive chess all over Sweden3yr ⋅ S-THE-GR8 ⋅ 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.2yr ⋅ artate ⋅ r/chess
Was pretty happy to see there were public chessboards in a village near my house. Until I saw them.8mo ⋅ OvidPerl ⋅ r/chess
This position just happened in a game I played, can you find the mate in 2 for white?2mo ⋅ Agent_Rule ⋅ r/chess
Update to the redditor's son's chesscom account getting banned: TL;DR, he cheated.8mo ⋅ nemoj_da_me_peglas ⋅ r/chess
Happy birthday to GM Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi, who will challenge Carlsen to become world champion3yr ⋅ GiorgioPerlasca ⋅ r/chess
Random fact that no one asked for: The Dragon opening is named after the Draco constellation, due to the apparent similarity in structure.1yr ⋅ vaishakh1000 ⋅ r/chess
If I could just operate on Hikaru’s level for one day. (Screenshot from yesterday’s puzzle survival with Levi)3yr ⋅ Dr___Krieger ⋅ r/chess
I have been trying to solve this puzzle for so long,is this hard or am I just bad?(white plays,checkmate in 3)1yr ⋅ Dude_with_eyeglasses ⋅ r/chess
Is it possible to set up a mate in 1 move with more point difference than this?1yr ⋅ MinecraftProffen ⋅ r/chess
SinisterMagnus has NOT been replaced by a GM named WiniVidiVici on chess.com, as these accounts are entirely separate. But this didn't stop 700 people from upvoting a completely false post.1yr ⋅ umek- ⋅ r/chess
GothamChess fans went out mass reporting Chess.com account of a retired professional chess player after he beat GothamChess live on Twitch3yr ⋅ TheHoodieGuy02 ⋅ r/chess
Magnus Carlsen’s rating gap with #2 widens to 66.8 after the Superbet Classic, larger than the gap between #2 and #281yr ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
Missed a mate in 4, then lost the game. Can you spot what I didn't see?1yr ⋅ hovik_gasparyan ⋅ r/chess
Wesley and Hikaru casually analyzing the 960 position before the game at Fischer Random championship (pic: David Llada)1yr ⋅ rederer07 ⋅ r/chess
Chess.com: We're experiencing a DDoS attack on the site - our team is working to restore service as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience.9mo ⋅ BKtheInfamous ⋅ r/chess
Swedish GM Pia Cramling wins Gold in the Chess Olympiad! Best board 1 (Women’s section)1yr ⋅ Montana94Swe ⋅ r/chess
After playing in Norway Chess 2023 earlier in the day, Hikaru defeats 10 opponents in a row to win Late Titled Tuesday11mo ⋅ BKtheInfamous ⋅ r/chess
All I play is 1 minute chess to avoid cheaters..... how in the f*** do people cheat at 1 minute chess? Does a bot just play the entire game or something? How can that bring any joy? Or does chess dot commercial just give people a win a quarter to make it look like they are monitoring cheating?1yr ⋅ RepublicanUntil2019 ⋅ r/chess
11 months ago, SGM Magnus Carlsen went 22-4 vs SGM Fabiano Caruana without losing a single game. Interesting5mo ⋅ AwesomeJakob ⋅ r/chess
MVL: From my side of things, I'm waiting for additional elements because again, as of now, my feeling is that there was no cheating1yr ⋅ aspiring_researcher ⋅ r/chess
[Mildly interesting] Play Magnus was an option for my in-flight entertainment2yr ⋅ 1b51a8e59cd66a32961f ⋅ r/chess
LETS GO IAN Z message displayed in Chess.com FIDE World Championship stream1yr ⋅ slackinpotato ⋅ r/chess
Welp I guess I just won't play rapid on chess.com anymore.. the cheating has gotten so bad.3yr ⋅ SuperSpeedyCrazyCow ⋅ r/chess
I flew into the Charlotte airport today and they were broadcasting the Candidates tournament1yr ⋅ instant_ostrich ⋅ r/chess
Chess.com unveils a star-studded commentary team for the 2023 FIDE World Championship1yr ⋅ BKtheInfamous ⋅ r/chess
I had blundered my queen earlier in the game. Then this happened! Black to play and win1yr ⋅ vineetksirohi ⋅ r/chess
Jose Raul Capablanca giving a 30 board simul in Berlin, June 1929 (colored by Olga Shirnina)3yr ⋅ atopix ⋅ r/chess
I looked up the World Chess Hall of Fame on google maps... did the Street View car catch Levon Aronian?2yr ⋅ nukeychess ⋅ r/chess
Playable birthday cake with mini cupcakes and chocolate chessmen my girlfriend made for me this weekend2yr ⋅ tazarini ⋅ r/chess
Yesterday, Praggnanandhaa became just the third Indian player to ever defeat Magnus Carlsen in a chess game of any format.2yr ⋅ rakesh_85 ⋅ r/chess
Accidentally forked myself on the last move but i did create this massive pawn chain1yr ⋅ LilBed023 ⋅ r/chess
Concerned wife asks for advice about husband's newfound chess addiction, during the chess boom caused by Paul Morphy (c. 1850's)1yr ⋅ nihilistiq ⋅ r/chess
Anatoly Karpov playing an exhibition game at the XVIII Komsomol Congress, in 1978.3yr ⋅ kvothei ⋅ r/chess
Why is knight to e5 the best move in this position? What happens after he takes my queen?1yr ⋅ Outrageous-Sky-944 ⋅ r/chess
GM Gukesh Dommaraju officially becomes India #1 in September '23 FIDE ratings and has effectively broken Anand's colossal reign of 37 years8mo ⋅ glancesurreal ⋅ r/chess
How can Niemann expect to get 100M in damages while these are top chess player earnings?1yr ⋅ Enden2 ⋅ r/chess
Poor male IM's, I didn't know Chess24 had the same discriminatory policy as nightclubs.3yr ⋅ BobbyBoljaar ⋅ r/chess
