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r/
chess
All about the game of chess, including discussions on professional tournaments, game analysis and theory. If you are new to the game, check out /r/chessbeginners and before posting here please read our rules: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/wiki/index.
Subscribers
1.8M
Active users
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Category
gaming
Refreshed
1 day ago
Coverage score
3 / 4 evidence checks passed
Can you post here?
Proceed carefully
With care
There is enough friction here that weak execution will usually get punished.
Strictness
Strict
Posting gates
- Min karma
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- Account age (days)
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- Submission type
- any
- NSFW
- No
Brands winning here
When cited Reddit discussions from chess show up in our LLM-observation dataset, these brands appear most often.
1. YouTube
186
2. Lichess
176
3. Chess.com
107
4. Twitch
30
5. GothamChess
27
6. Chess Vibes
22
7. IM Rosen
22
8. Chessbrah
14
Based on 739 observed brand mentions across all indexed citation history. Rankings prioritize the last 30 days. Last updated Apr 20, 2026.
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Observed posting velocity across a seven-day, two-hour-bucket heatmap.
Not enough post-timing observations yet to map when this subreddit is most active.
Activity
A simple read on whether the subreddit is accelerating, stable, or contracting in recent observed data.
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