2015 Qatar Masters - Magnus, Vidit and Nodirbek play football on the rest day.1yr ⋅ vaishakh1000 ⋅ r/chess
I have a good angle here on his ear, it is red. I can tell you red ears is one of the signs of blunders. My ears turn red right away when I blunder. - Giri during game 4. I love his bizarre but strangely insightful style of commentary.1yr ⋅ -dog-will-hunt- ⋅ r/chess
Hikaru reaches the highest ever blitz rating on chess.com, 3334, breaking his own record of 3332 which he held since March 31, 2020.5mo ⋅ DrunkLad ⋅ r/chess
Why would anyone play on Chess.com? It's an ad-ridden, cluster#$%& of an eyesore to look at, especially compared to the clean look of Lichess. I just don't get it.11mo ⋅ Forward_Cranberry_82 ⋅ r/chess
The only legal move here is en passant and it is checkmate. Black self mate.11mo ⋅ KingPengy ⋅ r/chess
Is it allowed at tournaments to purposefully place your pieces like this in OTB chess?1yr ⋅ The6HolyNumbers ⋅ r/chess
My mother won this chess set by coming 2nd at a Bosnian Republic competition in the late 1970s2yr ⋅ F1reLi0n ⋅ r/chess
I have seen this meme on another platform and in comments they keep trying to explain me that there was a mate in one there8mo ⋅ Cilyus2 ⋅ r/chess
Ding Liren, the 17th World Champion at the closing ceremony in Kazakhstan1yr ⋅ glancesurreal ⋅ r/chess
How the top Grandmasters from the world of chess reacted and congratulated Ding Liren on Twitter after he became the 17th World Champion1yr ⋅ glancesurreal ⋅ r/chess
A professional chess player, a streamer, and a fashion designer, in one frame6mo ⋅ rederer07 ⋅ r/chess
Caruana's new website. He looks like the 2nd highest player in the world.2yr ⋅ monotonousgangmember ⋅ r/chess
Hans Niemann brushes off unfounded allegations: unbothered, unfazed, undaunted5mo ⋅ rederer07 ⋅ r/chess
In today's hilarious olympiad games: Barna Ana's teammate gets scholar's mated in 5 moves1yr ⋅ Cubing-FTW ⋅ r/chess
King Liren is now the first non-Magnus player to be above 2810 in over a year and is less than 5 points away from his November 2018 peak of 28161yr ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
Magnus Carlsen wins the July Lichess Titled Arena by a massive 15 points. He never berserked a single game.3yr ⋅ edwinkorir ⋅ r/chess
World champion Ding Liren is interested in a potential rapid and Fischer Random match with GM Magnus Carlsen at the end of 202310mo ⋅ cantjankme ⋅ r/chess
It's white to move and mate in 3 but I can't find it for the life of me.8mo ⋅ chrisunplugged ⋅ r/chess
Anyone in 400-500 ELO get sick and tired of people trying this move on you?10mo ⋅ RobStar0917 ⋅ r/chess
Newish to competing locally - there's a blitz tournament next week. What does this rule mean? I know what it means to leave a piece hanging, but how would a king be hanging? Wouldn't it be in check?7mo ⋅ skyturnsred ⋅ r/chess
World Top 10 Classical, Post-Norway Chess 2023: Hikaru claims World No. 2; Magnus loses 18.3 Elo11mo ⋅ BKtheInfamous ⋅ r/chess
White has 2 legal moves and both are checkmate in 1, white instead runs out of time. Is this a draw because there is no legal sequence of moves where black wins?11mo ⋅ Darthbane22 ⋅ r/chess
Found this board in local chess club but nobody could deciypher all the signatures, who are they?8mo ⋅ letnja_ruza ⋅ r/chess
My brother has been needing a cutting board for his apartment and recently got into chess so for Christmas I designed this chess board with QR codes and recipes and my sister laser engraved it at school. Kinda jealous cause it turned out pretty sweet.3yr ⋅ micro435 ⋅ r/chess
Chess computer on board of a plane won't let me take with the French move. Am I missing something?1yr ⋅ Undesirable_11 ⋅ r/chess
Everybody's talking about Magnus and Hikaru but forgetting the true GOAT involved in the SCC final1yr ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
With Ding's latest loss to Anish Giri, Magnus is now the only player on earth with a live rating above 28001yr ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
Chess poster design I made following the moves of the pieces! (more in the comments!)3yr ⋅ TTTinan ⋅ r/chess
If Vishy stays above 2700 for 6 more months (which is very likely), he'll be 2700+ player for 30 years!2yr ⋅ mudit_10 ⋅ r/chess
I painted chess pieces inspired by Wayne Thiebaud’s painting of cupcakes (link to inspiration in comments)2yr ⋅ thefifthpostulate ⋅ r/chess
With his win today, Ding Liren displaces Alireza Firouzja for the world number 2 spot, reaching a live rating of 2805.72yr ⋅ LordWiki ⋅ r/chess
I offered $100 to Russian Paul if he could beat Andrew Tang (Union Square Park)1yr ⋅ Agnimandur ⋅ r/chess
Kudos to my opponent for finding this neat mate in a game of bullet. White to play.1yr ⋅ m_s_m_2 ⋅ r/chess
Tal trolling young Bobby Fischer by playing Sicilian instead of Caro Kann (Candidates 1959)3yr ⋅ Wicker_Sheev ⋅ r/chess
Disheveled poker player Magnus Carlsen has a blitz run of 9.5/10 against a field of (mostly) SuperGMs1yr ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
Congratulations to the two top finishers of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix who have qualified to the 2022 Candidates Tournament.2yr ⋅ MauBlackLagoon ⋅ r/chess
GM Galperin played against Anna Cramling her own opening at Reykjavik Open 1mo ⋅ Total_Woodpecker_912 ⋅ r/chess
Dewa_Kipas has been confirmed cheating and violates fair play, says Indonesia's biggest national newspaper3yr ⋅ Shinade- ⋅ r/chess
Completely winning position. The engine on my phone thinks I should move the bishop out of the way, and doesn’t see the mate.1yr ⋅ nictytan ⋅ r/chess
Shakh: After cutting down my flag in armageddon haha) Good luck to @GMHikaru. Let friendship always win.11mo ⋅ rederer07 ⋅ r/chess
I asked chess.com if the ukrainian flag can be shown aside the origin country flag as a flair icon, and they implemented it in less than 24h2yr ⋅ cla42 ⋅ r/chess
White to move. This position is a win in lichess, draw in chess.com.1yr ⋅ Entity-Valkyrie-2 ⋅ r/chess
My opponent blundered giving me a hilariously fun sequence of knight moves.7mo ⋅ hot-in-arizona ⋅ r/chess
Probably the worst time to post this but I was working on some Hikaru vector art for a few days. Hope to do some some other chess GMs and Streamers soon.3yr ⋅ smartypantschess ⋅ r/chess
How Susan Polgar changed Bobby Fischer's mind about women in chess1mo ⋅ Total_Woodpecker_912 ⋅ r/chess
Since so many people requested an easier version of yesterdays puzzle: Here you go!3yr ⋅ HariGeri69 ⋅ r/chess
My favourite Checkmate in Two puzzle by the amazing Paul Morphy! White to move3yr ⋅ TessaCr ⋅ r/chess
Magnus Carlsen withdraws from the Candidates 2024, the spot goes to Nijat Abasov.3mo ⋅ edwinkorir ⋅ r/chess
Chess.com introduces Team Chess Battle where duos will work together in match!2mo ⋅ rederer07 ⋅ r/chess
r/chess received on 7th September it's largest number of comments since records started1yr ⋅ chessplayer9030 ⋅ r/chess
I created a chess script that gives random chess positions with an almost 0.00 evaluation score. Thoughts?2mo ⋅ Whoyoutho ⋅ r/chess
This genuinely needs to stop because it's sucking the life out of Chess at the moment. Top GMs accusing everyone and their grandmother left right and centre. It's important to prevent cheating of course but the majority of this is just players being salty that they lost to lower-rated players.2mo ⋅ dylanh334 ⋅ r/chess
The sultry mother of all tactics has finally appeared in my game - and I found her. Black to play and mate in 39mo ⋅ seahorsedivorce ⋅ r/chess
GM Gukesh is on a massive winning streak! Surges past 2700 and crosses GM Vidit Gujrathi to become India No.3 and World No.271yr ⋅ TsarBizarre ⋅ r/chess
This guy has been stalling for 5 mins already and it's +M1, no matter what he does. Should I wait out the entire 16 mins for him now??2mo ⋅ Far-Fly8549 ⋅ r/chess
