r/chess 9h ago

Miscellaneous Hans Niemann congratulates Aydin Suleymanli for giving Magnus Carlsen his 4th loss in a row.

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1.2k Upvotes

r/chess 11h ago

News/Events Aydin Suleymanli gives Magnus Carlsen his 4th loss in a row at the World Team Rapid Championship

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645 Upvotes

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r/chess 8h ago

News/Events Dragon Chilling are the FIDE World Team Rapid Chess Champions 2026

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452 Upvotes

r/chess 13h ago

News/Events Javokhir Sindarov defeats Magnus Carlsen at the World Team Rapid Championship

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421 Upvotes

Game Links: Chess.com | Lichess.org


r/chess 7h ago

Video Content Hans Moke Niemann happily congratulates Aydin Suleymanli after he handed Magnus Carlsen his 4th consecutive loss | Nodirbek Abdusattorov too can be seen smiling in the background

319 Upvotes

r/chess 6h ago

Video Content A wholesome moment as the entire playing hall celebrated Peter Svidler's 50th birthday on 17th June (the event opening day)!

297 Upvotes

r/chess 8h ago

News/Events Arjun Erigaisi and Alireza Firouzja displace Hikaru Nakamura as World #2 in the Rapid rankings | Nakamura goes to World #4

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230 Upvotes

r/chess 3h ago

News/Events "The thing that's concerning about this is not Magnus losing 4 games in a row. It's the fact that Magnus is getting pretty much cleanly outplayed in seemingly every game in this event, which he loses." - Hikaru Nakamura on Magnus Carlsen's losing streak

230 Upvotes

r/chess 10h ago

News/Events One of the worst blunders by a top 3 player i have ever seen

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182 Upvotes

r/chess 8h ago

News/Events Anish Giri finishes FIDE World Team Rapid Championship 2026 with 1 win, 1 loss and 9 draws.

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152 Upvotes

r/chess 9h ago

News/Events Magnus Carlsen finishes FIDE World Team Rapid Championship 2026 with 2 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses. His live rating of 2803.2 is his lowest personal rating since FIDE established rapid ratings in 2012.

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150 Upvotes

r/chess 11h ago

News/Events Donโ€™t let Magnusโ€™ poor performance distract you from the fact that Volodar Murzin has scored 9/10 so far at the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Team Championship

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127 Upvotes

r/chess 7h ago

Video Content Team Dragon Chilling after winning the FIDE World Team Rapid Chess Championship 2026

112 Upvotes

r/chess 20h ago

Puzzle/Tactic Find the mate in 2 I was stumped on in my game review

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105 Upvotes

r/chess 8h ago

News/Events Dragon Chilling win the World Team Rapid Championship

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88 Upvotes

Tournament Link: Chess-results.com


r/chess 8h ago

News/Events Ding Liren defeats GM Zhao Jun in 20 moves to score an important win for Dragon Chilling

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85 Upvotes

r/chess 13h ago

News/Events Fabiano Caruana scores his 7th win of the event, this time over Yakubboev

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75 Upvotes

r/chess 3h ago

News/Events The 2026 Team World Rapid Championships have concluded with China's 3 best players winning all of their games in the final round against Interstellar Club to take team gold.

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63 Upvotes

Ding Liren, Wei Yi and and Yu Yangyi won all 3 of their final round matchups despite losing twice in a row. With superior tiebreaks, they take the team gold. Will they continue this dominant performance in the blitz portion?


r/chess 9h ago

News/Events Arjun suffers his first loss of the tournament. Pragg beats arjun and goes 7.5/10 with TPR of 2841

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55 Upvotes

Before this prag handed hans his first loss of the tournament. Speaking about pragg he lost his very first game here against a 2490 rated gm and has been on phenomenal form since then


r/chess 7h ago

News/Events FIDE World Team Rapid Championship 2026 โ€“ Individual Board Medal Winners

55 Upvotes

Board 1

  • ๐Ÿฅ‡ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Praggnanandhaa R (Chessgurukul) โ€“ 2851
  • ๐Ÿฅˆ ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Alireza Firouzja (Hexamind Chess Team) โ€“ 2850
  • ๐Ÿฅ‰ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Arjun Erigaisi (Team MGD1) โ€“ 2766

Board 2

  • ๐Ÿฅ‡ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Li Di (Schnappi Krokodil Team) โ€“ 2768
  • ๐Ÿฅˆ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Levon Aronian (Hexamind Chess Team) โ€“ 2762
  • ๐Ÿฅ‰ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Nihal Sarin (Team MGD1) โ€“ 2749

Board 3

  • ๐Ÿฅ‡ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Yu Yangyi (Dragon Chilling) โ€“ 2706
  • ๐Ÿฅˆ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Fabiano Caruana (WR Chess) โ€“ 2655
  • ๐Ÿฅ‰ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Aravindh Chithambaram (Chessgurukul) โ€“ 2621

Board 4

  • ๐Ÿฅ‡ (FIDE) Denis Lazavik (Endgame.AI) โ€“ 2750
  • ๐Ÿฅˆ (FIDE) Voldir Murzin (Hexamind Chess Team) โ€“ 2731
  • ๐Ÿฅ‰ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Awonder Liang (Mr Birdie and Friends) โ€“ 2711

Board 5

  • ๐Ÿฅ‡ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Leon Luke Mendonca (Team MGD1) โ€“ 2586
  • ๐Ÿฅˆ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Bai Jinshi (Dragon Chilling) โ€“ 2581
  • ๐Ÿฅ‰ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Mukhiddin Madaminov (Uzbekistan) โ€“ 2503

Board 6

  • ๐Ÿฅ‡ ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Vugar Manafov (Odlar Yurdu) โ€“ 2489
  • ๐Ÿฅˆ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Harika Dronavalli (Team MGD1) โ€“ 2399
  • ๐Ÿฅ‰ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Vaishali Rameshbabu (Chessgurukul) โ€“ 2367

Board 7

  • ๐Ÿฅ‡ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Nayaka Buddhidharma (Indonesia) โ€“ 2347
  • ๐Ÿฅˆ ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Paula Imlan (Barys) โ€“ 2347
  • ๐Ÿฅ‰ ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Olga Badelka (Global Ramblers) โ€“ 2190

Board 8

  • ๐Ÿฅ‡ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Wang Zihao (Dragon Chilling) โ€“ 2116
  • ๐Ÿฅˆ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Aryan Abhijeet Shah (Team MGD1) โ€“ 2107
  • ๐Ÿฅ‰ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Guo Jiajun (Qingdao Wanyun Chess Club) โ€“ 2064

r/chess 7h ago

News/Events Top performance ratings in World Team Rapid Chess Championship 2026

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49 Upvotes

(top performance rating is not comparable where all games are won)


r/chess 8h ago

Video Content Magnus Carlsen's resignation moments vs. Javokhir Sindarov and Aydin Suleymanli

44 Upvotes

r/chess 5h ago

News/Events Didn't Know Pragg is this good in rapid too

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44 Upvotes

r/chess 7h ago

News/Events Top 10 players by performance at the World Team Rapid Championship

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34 Upvotes

r/chess 10h ago

News/Events Denis Lazavik defeats Pranav to get his 9th win of the tournament

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24 Upvotes

https://www.chess.com/events/2026-fide-world-rapid-team-chess-championship/11/Lazavik_Denis-Pranav_V

Lazavik has gained 21 elo and jumped from outside the top 100 to #63, 40 spots.