The existing chess community on lemmy.ml/c/chess [http://lemmy.ml/c/chess] seems
to be dead, moderators are not reachable and is hosted on .ml which is
defederated by many instances. Use this community for anything related to chess:
news, memes, puzzles, guides, etc. # Current Tournaments Bullet Chess
Championship - June 22-27
[https://www.chess.com/events/info/2026-bullet-chess-championship] Naroditsky
Memorial Rapid & Blitz July 3-4
[https://www.chess.com/events/info/2026-naroditsky-memorial] # Play online -
Lichess [https://www.lichess.org/] => Free, libre, open source, ad-free,
unlimited puzzles, european-based, newly developed mobile app, constant
improvement - Chess.com [https://www.chess.com/] => Many features for paying
members only, larger player base # Current FIDE Rankings Live Chess Ratings
[https://2700chess.com/] |Player|Rating| |----|----| |Carlsen, Magnus|2823.2|
|Caruana, Fabiano|2792.0| |Nakamura, Hikaru|2792.0| |Sindarov, Javokhir|2777.0|
|Keymer, Vincent|2767.4| # Community Tournaments? Maybe in the future, once
there is a community
The existing chess community on lemmy.ml/c/chess seems to be dead, moderators are not reachable and is hosted on .ml which is defederated by many instances. Use this community for anything related to chess: news, memes, puzzles, guides, etc.
There are not enough active users on Lemmy/Piefed, there is obviously even less so that are playing chess. I’m not sure creating a new instance will solve that issue (I just joined, though ;)
Good to know, thanks. I do think having an obvious name is important when trying to grow a community, I have never heard of woodpusher before as a term for chess, so idk. But I’ll subscribe and check it out.
I agree that the number of users is pretty low, so the chance of this failing is pretty high, but just wanted to try anyway :) Also the anarchy chess community at !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz does have over 6k subscribers and is at least a little bit active, so there should be some users around
There is also the recent !woodpushers@quokk.au.
There are not enough active users on Lemmy/Piefed, there is obviously even less so that are playing chess. I’m not sure creating a new instance will solve that issue (I just joined, though ;)
Good to know, thanks. I do think having an obvious name is important when trying to grow a community, I have never heard of woodpusher before as a term for chess, so idk. But I’ll subscribe and check it out. I agree that the number of users is pretty low, so the chance of this failing is pretty high, but just wanted to try anyway :) Also the anarchy chess community at !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz does have over 6k subscribers and is at least a little bit active, so there should be some users around
It is probably not the name I would have picked myself (even though I qualify for it) , but it’s a classic, kinda ;)
You don’t have to check out the woodpusher community, there won’t be anything for you to see there. quokk.au defederated feddit.org a while ago.