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I can't seem to find mate here. I've look at many scenarios. Qxg6 is met with recapture on g6 from h7 pawn and messes things up. Qxh5 gets ruined by Qg5, or Bg4. I've got the g6 and f7 pawns pinned unless black moves D6 to D5. I'm having trouble playing out all the paths from this position. Help!

I'm looking for puzzles that don't just have solutions but have explanations. Any suggestions? TIA

Goodmorning, everyone! You can call me Wayne, I am 19 years old and a player from the Philippines who has been stuck around 2450+ rapid rating in lichess. I've been trying to improve all time control rating for over a year now but I don't see any improvements. For context, my bullet rating right now is 2591 (I just can't seem to break the wall) and my blitz rating is 2420 in lichess (again I can't go to 2500). Can you guys give me advice on how to get better at the game? I don't really play much tournaments outside of university games since I am the board 1 of our university. I am asking this question because, I will be playing in the National Games this April and I want to improve and become a better player. Thanks for the response!

FIDE Master Steven Rojas Salas (rated 2254) has won the Zone 2.4 qualification tournament which also included 7 GMs and 5 IMs to qualify for Chess World Cup 2025 which is to be held in October this year. The second placed participant - the top seeded Brazilian GM Krikor Mekhitarian also qualifies for World Cup.

One notable name who seems to have missed this step is GM Alexander Fier who has long been Brazil's top GM who started the tournament seeded second but finished 9th; 1.5 points behind 1st place and 1 point behind 2nd place.

The two became 57th and 58th players to qualify. Last week, Australian GM Temur Kuybokarov won the Oceania Chess Championship to secure his spot for World Cup 2025.

Here's a complete list of players who have qualified for FIDE World Cup 2025 so far based on my understanding of the rules:

(Players in Italics are not GMs or did not hold the GM title at the time of the qualification tournament)

(Fabiano Caruana has qualified through two different routes - World Cup 2023 and US Championship 2024 therefore Sam Sevian takes his spot for US Championship qualification)

Current World Champion (1)

• [IND] Gukesh D

World Cup 2023 Semi Finalists (4)

• [NOR] Magnus Carlsen
• [IND] Praggnanandhaa R
• [USA] Fabiano Caruana
• [AZE] Nijat Abasov

2024 World Junior Champion (1)

• [KAZ] Kazybek Nogerbek

2024 European Individual Championship (20)

• [SRB] Aleksandar Indjic
• [BEL] Daniel Dardha
• [GER] Fredrik Svane
• [ROU] Bogdan-Daniel Deac
• [BUL] Ivan Cheparinov
• [ESP] Maksim Chigaev
• [ESP] Daniil Yuffa
• [ARM] Robert Hovhannishyan
• [ROU] Alexander Motylev
• [POL] Kacper Piorun
• [POL] Mateusz Bartel
• [ROU] Constantin Lupulescu
• [SRB] Velimir Ivic
• [AZE] Rauf Mamedov
• [SLO] Vladmir Fedoseev
• [GER] Alexander Donchenko
• [TUR] Emre Can
• [ENG] Nikita Vitiugov
• [GER] Rasmus Svane
• [FID] Vladislav Kovalev

2024 Americas Continental Championship (4)

• [COL] Roberto Garcia
• [USA] Jeffrey Xiong
• [CHI] Christobal Henriques
• [USA] Kirk Ghazarian

2024 US Championship (5)

• [USA] Fabiano Caruana
• [USA] Leinier Dominguez Perez
• [USA] Levon Aronian
• [USA] Hans Niemann
• [USA] Ray Robson
• [USA] Samuel Sevian

2024 Canadian Championship (1)

• [CAN] Shiyam Thavandiran

2025 Zonal 2.4 (2)

• [PER] Steven Rojas Salas
• [BRA] Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian

2024 Chinese Championship (3)

• [CHN] Wang Yue
• [CHN] Zhao Chenxi
• [CHN] Xu Xiangyu

2025 Oceania Chess Championship (1)

• [AUS] Temur Kuybokarov

2024 Indian Championship (7)

• [IND] Karthik Venkataraman
• [IND] Surya Ganguly
• [IND] Neelesh Saha
• [IND] Diptayan Ghosh
• [IND] Aronyak Ghosh
• [IND] Himal Gusain
• [IND] Lalit Babu

2024 Russian Championship (5)

• [RUS] Andrey Esipenko
• [RUS] Vladislav Artemiev
• [RUS] Daniil Dubov
• [RUS] Evgeniy Najer
• [RUS] Arseniy Nesterov

2024 African Championship (2)

• [EGY] Amin Baseem
• [ALG] Bellahcene Bilel

I'm an Indian and I need a FIDE ID to attend an upcoming tournament in a few weeks. Nothing I've seen online is remotely helpful. I'm an Indian living in Tamil Nadu, India and I already have a TNSCA (Tamil Nadu State Chess Association) ID. Do I have to make an AICF (All India Chess Federation) ID, or can I go straight to the FIDE website to get an account there? Also, when will I get my FIDE ID?

https://www.chess.com/member/putrishalto - joined Jan 17, 2025

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So i dont play chess a lot and i am not that good but why is that a draw???

Hey folks, did a search but couldn't find what I'm looking for. My local league does OTB matches in person at a local bar on Thursday nights, but all our games are played as rated matches on Chess.com and are streamed on Twitch via overhead camera. In our current configuration players make a move on the Chess.com app on their phone, then manifest the move on the board (kinda clunky, players occasionally get messed up).

I'm looking for an electronic board that supports two players playing on their respective accounts. Current primary prospect is the Chessnut Pro, but haven't heard back from their Support regarding the ability to support two players at the same time. For stream purposes we're also looking for a board that's ~21"+.

If anyone has experience with the Chessnut Pro or any others that would meet our needs I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!

I’ve played chess here and there in my life but I got chess.com and played seriously for about a month. I was learning the ropes in the 500-600 range for a little then I just couldn’t lose and got all the way to 926. Now all of a sudden I’m losing all the time and fell down to 837 I’ve been trying to climb back up but now I keep losing to people in the 800 rating even though I literally didn’t lose an 800-900 rating game once on my way up.

The general question here is do I suck butt or will my skill come back to me soon? For a little insight I played 50 games yesterday and I feel like frustration and mental fatigue have completely ruined my game.

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Asked this last night on this sub but got only spectacularly unhelpful responses, figured I’d ask again.

The chess endgame trainer web app that everyone uses is great, but my one issue that I’ve found with it is that playing against the tablebase/stockfish, it often gives up early. Like if I’m playing K+R vs K+P and make one correct move, it’s often like “welp I’m dead anyways” and gives up the pawn right away rather than trying to push it all the way forward and forcing me to find the correct line to win with maximal effort.

Is there a tool that you use to practice endgames and mitigate that issue? People on r/tournamentchess recommended chesstempo premium and a few other tools (as well as “just sit there and think really hard about it” lol), but do people here have any other suggestions? Ideally, a training tool I could use solo so that I can just drill some endgames during downtime.

Thanks!

PS: if your groundbreaking contribution is about to be “just find another human and play with them,” please save your breath, that’s not helpful, nor does it answer my question.

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