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Popular Themes in r/chess
#1
News
: "The 1st Indian woman and man to win their respective Chess World Cups."
6 posts
#2
Money Talk
: "The costs of a Glass box (which actually works) as per Fabi is ~50,000$. For context, Buettner claims he spent 5 Million $ on entire Vegas event. Couldn't spend 1% on a thing which works?"
3 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Alireza Despair"
2 posts
#4
Advice Requests
: "How to turn off game review"
2 posts
#5
Ideas
: "Why doesn't FIDE incentivize, oversee, and market big one-on-one matchups between top players outside of just the World Championship?"
1 post
#6
Self-Promotion
: "I built ChessTV.com — a platform for chess news, interviews, and FIDE profiles. Would love your thoughts."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/chess
#1
Chess
: "Divya Deshmukh wins the FIDE Women's Chess World Cup 2025 and earns the Grandmaster title by defeating Koneru Humpy in the finals in a dramatic tie-break 🎉"
140 posts
#2
Ewc
: "Nihal Sarin, one of the favourites for the tournament considering the format and time control, loses on time, in a completely winning endgame, to Arjun Erigaisi. He is now 1 loss away from getting eliminated from the Ewc."
35 posts
#3
Esports World Cup
: "Nihal, Javokhir, Anish and Levon make it from the Last Chance Qualifiers to the main event of Esports World Cup 2025."
18 posts
#4
Hikaru Nakamura
: "Hikaru Nakamura flags Wei Yi with 2 seconds left to take it to Armageddon"
17 posts
#5
Armageddon
: "Hikaru Nakamura flags Wei Yi with 2 seconds left to take it to Armageddon"
15 posts
#6
Divya Deshmukh
: "Divya Deshmukh wins the FIDE Women's Chess World Cup 2025 and earns the Grandmaster title by defeating Koneru Humpy in the finals in a dramatic tie-break 🎉"
13 posts
#7
Esports
: "Hikaru Nakamura beats Javokhir Sindarov 2-0 in Esports World Cup!"
12 posts
#8
Rating
: "10-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan scores a WGM norm after picking up 129 Rating points in the Dole Trophy in France"
9 posts
#9
Magnus Carlsen
: "Smile if they're better than you by Magnus Carlsen"
9 posts
#10
Anish Giri
: "Anish Giri hangs his queen in a time scramble and is out of the Esports World Cup"
8 posts
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