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1.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 38.3K upvotes, which works out to 21 per 1,000 members.

21peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.8Mmembers
38.3Kbest post
5.8Kmost comments
219posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

59% 12% 11% 9%
Image 59% Text 12% Video 11% Question 9% Link 5% Gallery 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Miscellaneous 46 News/Events 18 Video Content 12 Social Media 9 Twitch.TV 5 Chess Question 4 Strategy: Endgames 1 Puzzle/Tactic 1 Misleading title (see comments) 1 META 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Magnus at my university bar yesterday

↑ 38.3K 💬 832 video 2022

Magnus makes a statement

↑ 23.4K 💬 5.8K image 2022

Magnus showing class by not starting the clock when Duda was being late

↑ 17.9K 💬 610 video 2021

This is hilarious when you know who they are

↑ 14.1K 💬 509 image 2025

Aman just made the most disgusting checkmate ever on the chessboard against 2800 IM. This is art.

↑ 13.5K 💬 393 video 2024

WSJ: Chess Investigation Finds That U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times

↑ 13.2K 💬 5.1K link 2022

Magnus Carlsen resigns after two moves against Hans Niemann in the Julius Baer Generation Cup

↑ 12.9K 💬 3.6K video 2022

Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky Has Passed Away

↑ 12.6K 💬 2K link 2025

[reposted w/ blanked check] I WON MY FIRST CHESS TOURNAMENT!! USCF U1450 with 4.5/5 and $800 prize 🥰

↑ 12.5K 💬 323 image 2022

Happy birthday to Hikaru Nakamura!

↑ 12.4K 💬 211 image 2020

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/chess, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.