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All about the game of chess, including discussions on professional tournaments, game analysis and theory. If you are new to the game, check out /r/chessbeginners and before posting here please read our rules: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/wiki/index.
Popular Themes in r/chess
#1
Solution Requests
: "I built a tool that shows how “fragile” a chess position is—based on how many good moves exist"
4 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "is it normal to spend over 80 hours on chess.com or do i need help?"
2 posts
#3
News
: "Gary Kasparov linked to South Sudan coup plot - introduced Wall Street billionaire to plotters"
2 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "Magnus Carlsen opens up on strong reaction after losing to D Gukesh: 'Made me feel so kind of washed and useless' â Firstpost"
1 post
#5
Opportunities
: "Endgame.ai will hosts its first tournament tomorrow 11 AM EST. Open entry for everyone and a prize pool of 500$"
1 post
#6
Self-Promotion
: "Looking for beta testers for my chess opening repertoire app (Android)"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/chess
#1
Chess
: "Vladimir Kramnik closes his Chesscom account"
99 posts
#2
Tactics
: "Beautiful Queen sacrifice that I didn't had guts to do in my game!"
14 posts
#3
Tournament
: "Getting a GM Norm in a Tournament with no GMs"
12 posts
#4
Checkmate
: "I'm pretty proud of this Checkmate as 400 ELO noob"
12 posts
#5
Mate
: "Find the missing pieces in this checkMate!"
11 posts
#6
Uzchess Cup
: "After a long fight in 3-way tiebreaks, Praggnanandhaa wins the 2025 Uzchess Cup Masters 🏆"
11 posts
#7
Elo
: "I finally reached 2000 Elo in blitz... Thank you and goodbye"
10 posts
#8
Blitz
: "Hans Niemann became the 4th player ever to break 3300 Blitz on chess.com after Hikaru, Magnus, and Alireza. He reached 3307 after his 10th round win in Titled Tuesday before falling back to 3297 after his last round loss."
9 posts
#9
White To Play
: "My proudest move yet (White To Play)"
9 posts
#10
Position
: "I built a tool that shows how “fragile” a chess Position is—based on how many good moves exist"
8 posts
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