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1. Weekly Discussion & Tournament Thread Index - September 29, 2025 [Mod Applications Welcome]

   r/chess Weekly Discussion Thread

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2. Event: 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals

   Official Website

   Follow the games here: Chess.com | Lichess

   The 2025 Grand Chess Tour Finals will take place at the WTC Events Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil from September 27 to October 4 and will bring the tour to South America for the very first time. The event will feature the top four finishers from the regular season: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Fabiano Caruana, and Levon Aronian who will face off in knockout matches. They will be competing for an additional prize fund of $350k with $150K for first place, $100K for second, $60K for third and $40K for

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3. FIDE is the most unprofessional professional organization on earth. Emil Sutovsky should be fired.

   FIDE makes stupid rules. When Hikaru abides by those rules, Sutovsky accuses him of "rating farming". When Bortnyk plays local tournaments, Sutovsky accuses him of "pocketing" rating points granted according to FIDE's own rules.

   Now they're planning to mess with the rating system even further. One guess how that is going to turn out.

   What CEO of a major professional organization publicly picks fights with its leading members when they follow the organization's own dumb rules? FIDE is a joke and Sutovsky should have been fired long ago.

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

4. Anish Giri launching a new app - ChessMonitor

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

5. This one is cute.What's the knockout blow ?(White)

   submitted by /u/Either-Case-5930 [link] [comments]

6. New Perplexity AI ad openly promotes how to cheat at chess

   The new ad for Perplexity's AI browser openly promotes how you can use it to cheat on Chess.com, automating the whole process. Wild. To be fair, the video shows the opponent just blundering a queen cold, so I'm not sure how strong Perplexity-built tools are at chess, but it's crazy that the company thinks it's okay to celebrate this use-case. I feel too dirty to upload the video ad itself but here are some screenshots. submitted by /u/smurfo17

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