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1. Weekly Discussion & Tournament Thread Index - July 07, 2025 [Mod Applications Welcome]

   r/chess Weekly Discussion Thread

   You are welcome to ask here all kinds of chess-related questions that don't warrant their own post. You can also discuss or ask questions about upcoming tournaments that don't have their own thread yet.

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2. Event: 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup

   Official Website

   Follow the games here: Chess.com | Lichess

   Batumi- The 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup is a key event in the international chess calendar and plays a direct role in the qualification process for the 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament. Scheduled to take place from July 6 to July 28, the event will be hosted at the Grand Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Batumi, Georgia. It brings together many of the world’s top female players in a knockout format and features a total prize fund of $691,250. The top three finishers will earn qualification spots for the next edition of the Women’s Candidates, making this tournament a significant step on the path toward the

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3. Anish Giri is using my chess tool! (ChessMonitor)

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

4. 4 years. 4 selfies. 1 Magnus. (you know which one is me)

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

5. I wish we had a Chess manga as extraordinary as Hikaru No Go

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

6. Lichess puzzles are superior to chess com

   I love puzzles. I find them useful to improve my chess ability (as someone who started playing about 1.5 years ago), but beyond that I find them an entertaining way of 'playing' chess when I'm unable to sit down and dedicate 20 minutes of full focus for a rapid game.

   In fact, access to unlimited puzzles was one of the main reasons why I got a chess com membership a few months after I started playing. I reached 2500 something rating which I was happy about, but honestly I had started feeling as if puzzles hadn't really helped my chess much for several months and a lot of the time the patterns didn't seem that relevant to my games so I was losing motivation. On top of that I started getting a bug where I'd lose rating when answering correctly because the app thought I 'solved with hint' even when I definitely didn't accidentally push the hint button.

   So when my membership expired I decided to swap to lichess, which I hadn't even heard

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