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
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
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
Disheveled poker player Magnus Carlsen has a blitz run of 9.5/10 against a field of (mostly) SuperGMs1yr ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
Magnus Carlsen defeats 2720 rated Keymer with 98% accuracy and is currently 4/4 in the European Club Cup8mo ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
Cursed results: Aronian and MVL, two former 2800+ and recently top 10 players, are now rated below 27401yr ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
Lichess published this graph of Stockfish eval (in centipawns) vs likelihood of winning, based on Lichess game data. Would be cool to see this graph for different rating bands1yr ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
With today’s win over Gukesh, Magnus is now 7.5/9 in the World Cup with a 2925 performance10mo ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
I was making a video on Scholar's Mate and noticed something startling: in 18.1% of games on Lichess where white plays for Scholar's Mate they don't go for 4. Qxf7#2yr ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
In May 2022, Richard Rapport was #5 in the world. After his disastrous Sinquefield Cup, he’s now dropped to #296mo ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
With his last round victory over Rapport, Fabi wins the Sinquefield Cup (and Grand Chess Tour) and will have his first 2800+ published rating in over two years6mo ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
After Day 1 of the Croatia Rapid & Blitz, Vishy Anand leads ahead of Magnus, Fabi, Alireza, Nepo11mo ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
Magnus and Hikaru will face each other in the AI Cup tomorrow, just three days after their epic SCC Final match8mo ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
According to chess.com insights there’s exactly one 700 out there constantly leaning back, smoking a pipe, and telling people about the day they beat Hikaru Nakamura1yr ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/HikaruNakamura
The top 6 boards at the FIDE Grand Swiss all has decisive results today. Hikaru, Esipenko, and Vidit are all tied for first going into tomorrow’s final round7mo ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
A slightly tricky M2 that my opponent missed. They proceeded to spam +15 seconds to my clock and eventually lose the game8mo ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
Fabi just missed the move in Titled Tuesday with six seconds on the clock. Eric Rosen wouldn’t have. White to move1yr ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
With all the discussion of draws in the world championship match, I decided to graph the draw rate in WC matches over time2yr ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
Duda back in the blitz top 10 after going 8/9 against a field of SuperGMs at the Armageddon Chess championship8mo ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess
Stockfish found a stunning tactic that I missed in a recent OTB game, white to move2yr ⋅ kiblitzers ⋅ r/chess