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• Weekly Discussion & Tournament Thread Index - November 24, 2025 [Mod Applications Welcome]

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• Event: 2025 London Chess Classic

  Official Website

  Follow the games here: Chess.com | Lichess | Chess-Results

  The 2025 XTX Markets London Chess Classic will take place between 26th November and 7th December 2025 at two London venues - the Emirates Stadium, home to Arsenal Football Club, and London Novotel West, a hotel in Hammersmith. Ten world-class grandmasters, led by Alireza Firouzja and Nodirbek Abdusattorov (world numbers 6 and 12 respectively) will compete in

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• Single Continuous Line drawing of Hikaru Nakamura!

  Portrait of Hikaru Nakamura drawn in a single continuous line - Ink on paper. 14 x 17 inches. One of my favorite Grandmasters and Chess personalities! submitted by /u/RobertBentleyArtist [link] [comments]

• Carlsen's coach Peter Heine Nielsen calls out Esipenko's Kremlin ties and Mariupol Propaganda appearance; Questions FIDE's neutrality

  Peter Heine Nielsen has recently used his platform to challenge how FIDE treats Russian players. He slammed the decision to let Andrey Esipenko — branded “Grandmaster of the Fatherland” by Russian state media — compete under a “neutral” flag, arguing that “neutrality” in chess doesn’t reflect reality anymore. At the same time, he condemned FIDE’s approval of a Russian-composed women’s team under a neutral banner winning the 2025 FIDE Women's World Team Championship, calling its

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• After recent strong showings from the Uzbeks and the Germans, here's a look at the overall strength of the top 100 players of top federations

  Rather than just looking at the handful of players at the top that get most attention, this graph shows the Elo of the top 100 players from each featured country (data from FIDE). I think this gives some sense of the strength of the wider "chess culture" of the country. Some general observations: India and USA are overall the

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• Wei -Yi does not have a second

  Do you guys he would have done better in the world cup if he had a second?

  submitted by /u/Solid_Phase9878 [link] [comments]