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1. Mod Announcement: New temporary measures to help manage the sub

   It has been over a week since we learned of Danya’s passing. A long, painful week for all of us. On Wednesday, the mod team pinned a thread asking for the input of the r/Chess community as we determine what the best way forward is. We’ve heard lots of opinions, and we have a lot to discuss together. (If you haven’t shared your thoughts in the pinned thread, please do so!)

   However, we have also seen a massive explosion in activity in the sub in that same period. We saw a 7x increase in activity the day after the news broke. As we shared in the pinned thread it has become very difficult for us to moderate the sub. We are still seeing nearly 4x as many posts and comments.

   So much of that activity is wonderful, but a lot of it is heated; and not just emotion-filled disagreements, but an increase in insults and behaviors that break

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2. Event: 2025 FIDE World Cup - Round 3

   Official Website

   Follow the games here: Chess.com | Lichess | Chess-Results | Pairings & Results - Rd.3

   The 2025 FIDE World Cup is an important event in the international chess calendar and helps determine qualification for the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, which decides the challenger for the World Chess Championship. It will take place from October 31 to November 27, 2025, at the five-star Rio Resort in Goa, India. The tournament will feature many of the

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3. Is the Madman making it to the CANDIDATES this time?

   Arjun Erigaisi is playing absolutely amazing in this world cup. Though his opponents weren't quite strong yet, he surprisingly never got even a slightly worse position in any of his games. Erigaisi is in a great form. Always super prepared, always ready to win, madman is not stopping. It will be an agony if he again misses the candidates. He indeed worked on his "high risk-high reward" style and the Round 3.2 was a great example of it. At some point he was having a +1.3 advantage while being low on time, and he chose to simplify and get a quick draw. In the

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4. 2026 Candidates: Best Chance for Caruana and Nakamura

   2025 Fide Circuit is likely to be Pragg. As long as he dont finish in Top 3 of World Cup. (Complications will happen if he does finidh top 3. Giving chance to players like Nodirbek or Alireza fo qualify thru circuit) World Cup showed a lot of upsets. The Upper Bracket only have LQL, Yu Yangyi,Sindarov, and Awonder as 2700+brated players. One of them are likely to make the Finals. On, the lower bracket, Pragg, Rapport, MVL, Vincent, Wei Yi, Levon, Arjun will battle it out for a Finals spot. Then ofc, the battle for 3rd. Looking at the potential candidates. I think this is the

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5. Hikaru makes a quick draw and, barring any surprises, books his place in the Candidates

   submitted by /u/Asheraddo98 [link] [comments]

6. The exact moment GM Hikaru Nakamura qualified for the candidates

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