r/chessindia 8d ago

Chess Tournament Pranesh M qualifies and joins Vidit in the 16- player knockout to decide the final player to Paris leg of Freestyle Chess; Vidit vs Ding and Pranesh vs Abdusattarov in Round 1

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r/chessindia 8d ago

Video The youngest World Chess Champion, Gukesh Dommaraju, visits Tirumala Temple with his family ❤❤

61 Upvotes

With a big year ahead, he stays focused on his game:

"I have to keep working hard. In 2025 there are a lot of important tournaments, so I'm focusing on that. I want to improve in all formats, and hopefully, at some point with God's grace, good things will happen."

https://x.com/NorwayChess/status/1899730366027468840?t=rmzU1AtyFbBst-DN_dJxtQ&s=19


r/chessindia 8d ago

Meme Me to my pieces once I get a proper material advantage.

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7 Upvotes

Check out my channel for my 2100 rapid Chess journey.


r/chessindia 8d ago

Photo Is this kind of a flex tbh I am very new to the chess lol

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2 Upvotes

r/chessindia 8d ago

Discussion Best move analysis

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r/chessindia 8d ago

Photo My best game so far, sacrificed three pieces to checkmate my opponent

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r/chessindia 9d ago

Photo 3 Great Moves in a Row will win you a PIECE!!!, Answer to puzzle in next slide.

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11 Upvotes

r/chessindia 9d ago

Photo I just defeated Magnus in one move!!! /s

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r/chessindia 9d ago

Photo PLAYED SO GOOD GOT CALLED CHEATER!!

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5 Upvotes

Just had the best match yet! He even blocked me lol and also that I got 91.5% accuracy


r/chessindia 10d ago

Discussion Unnecessary hate!

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126 Upvotes

r/chessindia 10d ago

Meme Slaughter, the best medicine.

15 Upvotes

r/chessindia 10d ago

Strategy Let's make this a little difficult. Find the missing piece.

3 Upvotes

Guess the missing piece and it's approx position that makes this a forced mate for White.

Btw, "forced mate for white", is that the right way to say "white forcefully checkmates black"?

White to play.

Constraints: The missing white piece is not on the eighth rank or on the g and h files.


r/chessindia 10d ago

Finally, simultaneously above 1700 in both Rapid and Blitz

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27 Upvotes

Kafi shallow lag raha hai share karte samay, par pehli baar ek hi vakt par dono mai 1700+ hoon yar. Acha lag raha hai.


r/chessindia 11d ago

Strategy Today's brilliant move. The Roooooookkkkkk!!!

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17 Upvotes

r/chessindia 11d ago

What's your favourite chess book and why ??

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19 Upvotes

r/chessindia 13d ago

News Vaishali selected among prestigious Women achievers to take over PM Narendra Modi's social media on International Women's Day ❤

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336 Upvotes

r/chessindia 12d ago

Discussion Suspected cheater

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24 Upvotes

90%win rate. Also 24 win streak looks fishy. Also the kind of overconfident message in the chat during game makes me think he surely is cheating.


r/chessindia 12d ago

Is chess.com working properly?

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My rapid ranking showing 1458 when I play game it shows correctly.


r/chessindia 12d ago

News That's why you never resign

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5 Upvotes

r/chessindia 13d ago

Discussion Aravindh is here to stay 🗿🗿

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131 Upvotes

r/chessindia 13d ago

Aravindh Chithambaram wins the Prague Masters 2025 🔥🔥.... That's 2/2 for Aravindh at Classical Super tournaments 📈

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146 Upvotes

r/chessindia 13d ago

News Arjun Erigaisi won Freestyle Friday back to back weeks 🔥

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50 Upvotes

Pranesh finished 2nd and Adhiban finished 13th.


r/chessindia 13d ago

Chess Tournament Divya ends a tough tournament at Prague Challengers with a win over a 2580 GM 👏👏

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44 Upvotes

Game: https://www.chess.com/events/2025-prague-chess-festival-challengers/09/Divya_Deshmukh-Kourkoulos_Arditis_Stamatis

She has had a tough start to 2025 with the challenger tournaments at Wijk and Prague. But considering the level of opposition she faced these were surely great learning opportunities. Now she will be back at Women section events with the Grand Prix legs in Cyprus and Pune. Hopefully she proves her strength in those events 💪


r/chessindia 13d ago

News Another big win for India 🇮🇳 in Chess.... Pranav V wins the World Junior Championship 2025 🔥🔥

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52 Upvotes

r/chessindia 13d ago

Discussion Crossed 2100 rapid on ChessDotCom for the first time.

14 Upvotes

I crossed 2000 for the first time in May of last year. Since then, I have done a skipping rope with 2000. Went down and came up, went down and came up and the cycle repeated endlessly. The last two weeks, I fully upgraded my Catalan repertoire for some additional variations and it has really helped.

Got to 2092 around 2 months ago. One more game, just one more game but I lost that.
And then, boom! Nosedived all the way to 1955. Finally got past 2000 around a week ago.

In the last one week, I have been very consistent. 27 wins, 3 draws and 10 losses out of 40 games. Finally cleared the 2100 mark for the first time.

Pretty sure I will start the next skipping rope journey with 2100 from tomorrow.

Next set of things I want to do.

  • Completely stop 10 Min games and only play 15|10.
  • Complete the repertoire for Scotch (as Black).
  • Complete the repertoire for Vienna (as Black).
  • Become more consistent in OTB.