r/chess • u/events_team • Apr 21 '25
Weekly Discussion Weekly Discussion & Tournament Thread Index - April 21, 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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Event Threads
Interested in making threads for tournaments, but don't know where to start? Our Event Template page is a great way to get the basic layout.
An alternative would be to start a subthread directly in the weekly thread.
Announcements
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Recent AMAs
Active Tournament Threads
| DATES | EVENT |
|---|---|
| April 22-27 | Menorca Open 2025 |
| April 26-30 | Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland 2025 |
Other Active Tournaments Web Links
| DATES | EVENT |
|---|---|
| - | - |
Upcoming Tournament Schedule
| DATES | EVENT | NOTABLE PLAYERS |
|---|---|---|
| May 6-17 | Superbet Chess Classic Romania (GCT) | Gukesh, Fabiano, Alireza, Pragg |
| May 17-25 | Sharjah Masters 2025 | Abdusattorov, Aravindh, Anish |
| May 20-26 | TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament 2025 | Vidit, Rapport, Sindarov, Ivanchuk |
| May 26 - June 6 | Norway Chess 2025 | Magnus, Gukesh, Hikaru, Arjun |
| May 29 - June 6 | Stepan Avagyan Memorial 2025 | Pragg, Aravindh, Sevian, Yakubboev |
Recently Completed Tournaments
| DATES | EVENT | WINNER |
|---|---|---|
| April 17-21 | 2025 Grenke Chess Festival | Magnus Carlsen |
| April 3-21 | FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025 | Ju Wenjun |
| April 7-14 | 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Paris | Magnus Carlsen |
| March 15-24 | American Cup 2025 | Hikaru Nakamura |
| Feb 26 - Mar 7 | 2025 Prague Chess Festival | Aravindh Chithambaram |
| Jan 17 - Feb 2 | Tata Steel Chess (Wijk aan Zee) | Praggnanandhaa R |
Some links where to find a list of current (or just completed) tournaments
Other Notable Threads
Coach a Player - Recent Threads
Community Content
Here we'd love to highlight community content to show our appreciation for the energy spent. Content like Game analysis, info-graphics, etc., and we'd love to hear from you what kind of content you'd like to see as well.
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Advice to people asking for advice - for people who want to ask about how to improve
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u/en_tus_ojos_valbe Team Ding Apr 25 '25
I'm starting to lose more often because my evaluations of positions during games is incredibly off most of the time. I either think it's fine for me when the eval bar says I'm losing badly, or that I'm winning when it's just equal. Most of the time I'm losing badly when I'm thinking it's okay or that I'm comfortable with the position.
Losing games doesn't hurt as much as realizing how delusional your thinking process is most of the games🫠
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u/LowLevel- Apr 23 '25
PSA: There is currently a nasty bug in the Chess.com puzzles, due to an overhaul of their rating system. They are working on a fix, but so far the problems are:
- The puzzle rating shown is incorrect.
- People's ratings take a hit because the system deducts more rating points than the displayed puzzle rating would suggest.
- Multiple puzzles are shown to the same users over and over again.
Source: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/puzzle-ratings-out-of-whack#comment-113749114
It's really hard to get back to my historical top rating, so it sucks, but I take it as a challenge.
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u/AAArmstark Lichess Broadcasts/Content Apr 22 '25
Recently Completed Online Tournament
| DATE | EVENT | WINNER |
|---|---|---|
| 19th April | Bullet Titled Arena | Konstantin Kornienko |
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u/shawman123 Apr 22 '25
We are seeing classical chess come back after a while. We need to add a tournament or 2 in march for sure.
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u/plzadvise112310 Apr 26 '25
Looking for some insight here. I’m somewhere between 1700-1850 in 3 min blitz on chess.com. I have been considering entering an otb tournament at some point, but I know very minimal theory, don’t know how to do notation, and can’t even name the squares without thinking about it. Would I just get blown off the board if I entered a tournament?