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Weekly Discussion & Tournament Thread Index - July 27, 2026 [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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Announcements
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Event: 2026 Grand Chess Tour - Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz
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Follow the games here: Chess.com | Lichess
The 2026 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz will take place from August 2 to 6 at the Saint Louis Chess Club in St. Louis, United States. The tournament is the third and final rapid and blitz event of the 2026 Grand Chess Tour, featuring seven full-tour competitors and three wildcards competing in rapid and blitz formats. Players compete for a total prize fund of $200,000, with $50,000 awarded to the winner, while full-tour players earn Grand Chess Tour points toward qualification for the 2026 Grand Chess Tour Finals.
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I scanned 1 million games to find out how rare en passant actually is
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While making my reddit Guess The Elo game at r/GuessTheEloGame I had a ton of chess games on my pc and decided to make this analysis as well since the figures online seemed to never agree on a true number.
Source is 1 million rated games, both players rated. 66,966,747 positions replayed and checked one at a time.
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Carlsen vs. Caruana: FIDE Classical rating progression
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submitted byIn May 2014, Magnus reached the highest officially published FIDE rating in chess history (2882).
The first time Fabi got really close to Magnus was after his historic Sinquefield Cup performance in October 2014, when he reached his peak rating of 2844. Magnus was rated 2863 at that point.
The closest gap was reached in November 2018, right around their World Chess Championship match (Magnus 2835 vs. Fabi 2832).
In 2019, the gap widened again as Magnus climbed back over 2880.
Their rating difference is now 31 Elo points (August 2026).
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Hou just defeated Bibisara Assaubayeva, 12-10. She will face Alice Lee in the final in a few days!!
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Can someone close to Maurice Ashley please inform him....
submitted by /u/unga123 [link] [comments]Multiple times he has used the phrase "Montezuma's revenge" to refer to a chess piece improving (?) or something (?), I'm not quite sure. Regardless, Montezuma's revenge is really about getting food poisoning when you travel to Mexico. Someone should just politely tell him what it actually means.
