| 1 | Jun 1, '25 | Watch the full clip. | 121× | 5.9M | 39k | 802 | 3.8k |
| 2 | Apr 23, '24 | Mate in 1. Look between f and j on your keyboard. | 26.8× | 1.3M | 4.5k | 165 | 125 |
| 3 | Oct 21, '23 | If this gets 10K likes I am going to ask Pragg for a selfie | 24.9× | 1.2M | 11k | 438 | 13 |
| 4 | May 7, '24 | Selfie with Gukesh. Sort of. | 16× | 781k | 6k | 95 | 54 |
| 5 | May 4, '23 | Just composed this puzzle. White to move and mate in 1!✅ (Not as easy as it looks) | 15.7× | 769k | 5.1k | 115 | 75 |
| 6 | Apr 11, '24 | Asked @GothamChess to join me for the recap of the first half of the Candidates tomorrow on my YT channel. Waiting for a reply, meanwhile you can help me put some pressure here by | 15.1× | 740k | 10k | 163 | 28 |
| 7 | Apr 22, '24 | ❤️🩹 | 11.9× | 581k | 7.6k | 435 | 375 |
| 8 | Sep 15, '25 | I won the FIDE Grand Swiss and qualified to the Candidates tournament.🏆 | 11.8× | 576k | 18k | 1k | 139 |
| 9 | Jan 4, '24 | 10K likes and I will stream next Titled Tuesday. | 11.4× | 556k | 9.1k | 285 | 18 |
| 10 | Jan 17, '23 | 🙏 | 10.2× | 498k | 6.6k | 205 | 4 |
| 11 | Jan 29, '23 | 🏆🙏 | 9.8× | 478k | 13k | 518 | 12 |
| 12 | Jul 28, '23 | This is a good one 🤣 | 9.5× | 465k | 11k | 649 | 115 |
| 13 | Jan 21, '24 | People keep messaging me about all the pawns I stole. First of all this is not forbidden by the rules and secondly, mind your own business. | 9.5× | 463k | 4.5k | 170 | 38 |
| 14 | Apr 7, '23 | The choice of a picture lol. | 9.2× | 449k | 6.9k | 193 | 31 |
| 15 | Dec 29, '24 | I am playing. Based. I am not playing. Based. I am playing. Based. BasedBasedBased app. | 8.9× | 435k | 8.9k | 340 | 125 |
| 16 | Nov 5, '23 | Getting ignored here. | 8.7× | 425k | 9.9k | 172 | 34 |
| 17 | Aug 29, '23 | I heard some people can even play chess without pieces, it's called blindfolded chess or something like that. All in their own head. Crazy. | 8.7× | 425k | 4.2k | 167 | 72 |
| 18 | Jan 29, '23 | 🤝 | 7.7× | 378k | 9.8k | 303 | 12 |
| 19 | Nov 29, '23 | I asked ChatGPT to generate a suspicious chess player. For every 1000 likes I will ask it to make em more sus. | 7.2× | 354k | 5.3k | 51 | 32 |
| 20 | Dec 12, '24 | I haven't prepared a tweet for this scenario, congrats to Gukesh I guess!!🏆 | 7.2× | 353k | 14k | 473 | 68 |
| 21 | Apr 30, '23 | One Ding to rule em all. #NepoDing | 7.2× | 351k | 7.1k | 870 | 10 |
| 22 | Apr 21, '24 | Round 14 prediction Nakamura-Gukesh 1/2 Caruana-Nepo 1/2 Firouzja-Vidit 1/2 Abasov-Pragg 1/2 There is a reason Gukesh is playing this tournament and Anish is not. | 7.1× | 349k | 4.7k | 108 | 36 |
| 23 | Mar 6, '23 | #facts | 6.8× | 331k | 8.2k | 362 | 50 |
| 24 | Oct 1, '24 | I can't give you a selfie with Gukesh, but I have met a random Indian chess correspondent. Releasing the selfie at just 1K likes. | 6.7× | 330k | 4.2k | 43 | 45 |
| 25 | Dec 4, '24 | Even Balraj doesn't pick up my call... | 6.6× | 325k | 4.1k | 64 | 50 |
| 26 | Aug 15, '23 | 🤣 | 6.4× | 315k | 5.8k | 228 | 37 |
| 27 | Oct 5, '25 | I am team Hikaru here. Organizers probably tried an experimental event, not pretending that this is the only way chess should be played in the future, but just to try to have some | 6.3× | 310k | 5.7k | 181 | 115 |
| 28 | Feb 11, '25 | When Hikaru blunders it is because he is old. When Gukesh blunders it is because he is Gukesh. | 6.0× | 293k | 5.5k | 257 | 117 |
| 29 | Sep 26, '23 | Dear X, I just beat Hikaru. | 5.9× | 288k | 4.4k | 136 | 7 |
| 30 | Jan 16, '25 | Unrealistic ad. I am sure Vishy (sir) knows what skibidi means, while Guki has no clue. | 5.9× | 288k | 5k | 127 | 112 |
| 31 | Dec 12, '24 | Imagine you are watching this TakeTake recap, but you have no idea who these three are. What would you estimate their Elo to be based solely on their takes? | 5.3× | 261k | 4.5k | 80 | 108 |
| 32 | Oct 20, '25 | @CLTchesscenter Heartbreaking news. My deepest condolences. | 5.3× | 257k | 8.4k | 51 | 30 |
| 33 | Feb 1, '23 | Thank you for subscribing to my channel, you are special. | 4.9× | 239k | 4.1k | 29 | 5 |
| 34 | Dec 31, '22 | @GMHikaru @FabianoCaruana @MagnusCarlsen Wholesome.🙃 | 4.9× | 238k | 4.5k | 2 | 4 |
| 35 | Sep 15, '25 | At this point, I think getting onto Levy's thumbnail is gonna be harder for me than becoming a World Champion.😝 | 4.8× | 236k | 8.2k | 157 | 87 |
| 36 | Feb 24 | I am very proud to be working on a big project like ChessMonitor. The intent and purpose is to provide actual value to actual chess players. The only website (and app!) you will ev | 4.8× | 235k | 337 | 11 | 37 |
| 37 | Jun 9, '25 | If you quickly give me 5000 likes on this one, I will nag Vidit in London to record some content for my YouTube channel. If not, I won't even bother. | 4.6× | 226k | 7.1k | 127 | 25 |
| 38 | Aug 17, '23 | Praggnanandhaa: "I'm not going to touch chess for next half a day at least... It's been exhausting." LOL | 4.5× | 223k | 5.1k | 105 | 16 |
| 39 | Dec 12, '24 | Beautiful speech! Take a listen.👏 | 4.4× | 214k | 9.1k | 486 | 298 |
| 40 | Jan 30, '23 | Instagram so weird, you take epic selfies, nobody likes anything, then you win some games and everybody follows.🤷🏻♂️ | 4.3× | 209k | 4k | 53 | 10 |
| 41 | Aug 17, '23 | I am now convinced that playing chess is less stressful than watching it. | 4.2× | 205k | 4.2k | 225 | 20 |
| 42 | Dec 16, '24 | Ding is so gonna be back. | 4.1× | 202k | 4.9k | 102 | 74 |
| 43 | May 29, '23 | GMHikaru is violating the white hoodie dress-code. | 4.0× | 197k | 5.2k | 89 | 13 |
| 44 | Dec 12, '24 | Remarkable that in the Candidates too, like in this match, Gukesh was at a brink of having to play the rapid tie break, but the fate was decided in classical chess! | 4.0× | 194k | 7.6k | 290 | 64 |
| 45 | Jul 27, '25 | Imagine the video title if Hans had actually won. | 3.9× | 192k | 4.5k | 37 | 48 |
| 46 | Oct 15, '24 | Happens. | 3.8× | 188k | 5.9k | 135 | 65 |
| 47 | Sep 26, '24 | This is getting very random at this point | 3.6× | 175k | 5.2k | 105 | 38 |
| 48 | Apr 21, '24 | Gukesh. | 3.6× | 174k | 5k | 201 | 7 |
| 49 | Apr 21, '24 | After Gukesh becomes the World Champion, we should have a training camp. He will teach me how to win and I will teach him how to smile. | 3.4× | 165k | 5k | 142 | 48 |
| 50 | Feb 3, '25 | nice flex, sir 🥤 | 3.4× | 165k | 5.4k | 137 | 40 |
| 51 | Jun 14, '24 | @GothamChess Cheer up my man. I also didn't win the Titled Tuesday on my first try. | 3.2× | 159k | 5k | 15 | 13 |
| 52 | Sep 15, '25 | It all makes sense now. | 3.2× | 156k | 6.1k | 164 | 55 |
| 53 | Oct 13, '24 | When you were too shy to ask for a selfie, but realized you can screenshot a reel. | 3.1× | 154k | 7.1k | 122 | 81 |
| 54 | Dec 9, '24 | Happy Birthday to GMHikaru!🎂 Fun fact, if he qualifies to the next World Championship match and Gukesh will be the Champion, he will be the less experienced one of the two, despit | 3.1× | 151k | 4.5k | 101 | 57 |
| 55 | Nov 1, '23 | Pragg won his game, what a day to post the selfie! | 3.0× | 149k | 4.4k | 91 | 7 |
| 56 | Aug 31, '23 | Hey I also want my Pragg likes today | 2.9× | 141k | 4.7k | 90 | 12 |
| 57 | Apr 21, '24 | No matter how this ends though, in two days Hikaru and me will be back streaming the Titled Tuesday and Gukesh will not. | 2.9× | 141k | 4.1k | 67 | 35 |
| 58 | Dec 13, '24 | Can't scroll all the countless posts, but if Gukesh drops another dance video, do let me know. | 2.7× | 133k | 4.7k | 95 | 41 |
| 59 | Apr 4, '25 | Everybody wondering how the knight moves. | 2.7× | 130k | 6.2k | 154 | 78 |
| 60 | Jun 19, '22 | Let me quickly change the scene and go to the bathroom, chat. | 2.7× | 0 | 9.8k | 592 | 106 |
| 61 | Apr 3, '25 | Indian wedding, groom POV: 1)Invite everyone 2)Practice dancing for 8 months* 3)Force everyone else to dance too 4)Have the bride realize that you are by far her best option and ha | 2.6× | 128k | 4.2k | 97 | 88 |
| 62 | Nov 5, '23 | give me those Vidit likes | 2.6× | 127k | 4.6k | 106 | 6 |
| 63 | Feb 13, '22 | What really saddens me is that apparently the hacker got me better engagement than my own tweets. I have to do better. 🤦🏻♂️ | 2.6× | 0 | 10k | 230 | 11 |
| 64 | Jun 24, '25 | Met a fan on the bus. He asked me if I was Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura or GothamChess. I said, no, I am Anish Giri. He said fine, whatever, and took a selfie anyway. He probabl | 2.5× | 121k | 4.1k | 96 | 47 |
| 65 | Apr 27, '21 | Thank you all for the support (didn't check all the notifications, but I assume there was support?!😅) We will try again next time.💪 Meanwhile congrats to Ian, everybody without e | 2.2× | 0 | 8.9k | 228 | 6 |
| 66 | Jul 15, '24 | Selfie with Gukesh. | 2.2× | 106k | 5.1k | 98 | 39 |
| 67 | Dec 14, '21 | I am thinking to never tweet anymore, except for if @MagnusCarlsen tags me. The motivation is no longer the same. I want to quit social media while at my best and in the retirement | 2.0× | 0 | 7.8k | 221 | 20 |
| 68 | Jun 10, '25 | View post on X | 1.9× | 94k | 4.6k | 58 | 36 |
| 69 | Oct 1, '24 | A random encounter! -with @vishy64theking | 1.8× | 86k | 4.5k | 88 | 27 |
| 70 | Jan 31, '21 | Hm, I thought spectators were not allowed this year.😜 #TataSteelChess | 1.6× | 0 | 6k | 352 | 14 |
| 71 | Sep 24, '21 | Obviously not my gate. #ChessChamps | 1.5× | 0 | 6.1k | 142 | 9 |
| 72 | May 28, '25 | @DinaBelenkaya On X u need to post something controversial to drive up the engagement, not something everybody just agrees on. | 1.5× | 74k | 5.8k | 119 | 39 |
| 73 | Nov 24, '20 | WE WILL STILL WIN, BUT FRANKLY THEY SHOULD HAVE STOPPED THE COUNT AFTER DAY TWO. #ChessChamps | 1.5× | 0 | 5.8k | 209 | 4 |
| 74 | Sep 27, '22 | My today's tweet (which got a bit long, hence the screenshot). | 1.4× | 0 | 5.8k | 157 | 31 |
| 75 | Feb 13, '22 | Hacked. | 1.4× | 0 | 5.5k | 133 | 6 |
| 76 | Oct 22, '21 | How to not get cancelled on Chess Twitter: ✅lichess-good ✅FIDE-bad ✅Carlsen-GOAT ✅Chesscom-bad, but when they pay-good ✅Alireza-very, very good ✅Rapport-Dubov ✅Dubov-Rapport ✅GMHik | 1.4× | 0 | 5.3k | 221 | 48 |
| 77 | Jul 1, '22 | If Hikaru wins today, I am going to fly to Madrid and get his autograph tonight, all recorded and uploaded on my YT channel as a vlog. Obviously provided this tweet gets enough lik | 1.4× | 0 | 5.3k | 280 | 7 |
| 78 | Mar 21, '21 | Hotdog Champion. ✌️#ChessChamps #MagnusCarlsenInvitational #ChessInSpace | 1.4× | 0 | 5.1k | 226 | 1 |
| 79 | Jun 15, '21 | As for cheating, jokes aside, there are billions of reasons not to do so and zero to do so, so I just never get it. 🤦🏻♂️ #ChessDrama | 1.3× | 0 | 5.3k | 166 | 5 |
| 80 | Apr 16, '21 | @chesscom @MagnusCarlsen Best chess website? | 1.3× | 0 | 4.6k | 282 | 18 |
| 81 | Dec 10, '21 | GGs @MagnusCarlsen!🏆 | 1.3× | 0 | 5.2k | 158 | 2 |
| 82 | Jun 28, '21 | Congrats @adhibanchess! To win despite such a horrible opening, wow!👏 | 1.3× | 0 | 4.8k | 190 | 5 |
| 83 | Jan 3, '21 | Congrats to @rajachess for his victory!Living proof that hard work, counterstrike and podcasts can help you achieve your dreams. Feel inspired and motivated now!🙏 Thank you, hero. | 1.3× | 0 | 4.9k | 238 | 3 |
| 84 | Jul 25, '22 | My supreme coach is here. | 1.2× | 0 | 5.1k | 101 | 3 |
| 85 | Apr 21, '22 | It's called a knight. Not a horse. A knight. | 1.2× | 0 | 4.1k | 161 | 11 |
| 86 | Apr 22, '22 | Ok, that's a horse. | 1.2× | 0 | 4.8k | 116 | 8 |
| 87 | May 4, '21 | #goals | 1.2× | 0 | 4.9k | 114 | 5 |
| 88 | Jul 3, '22 | My selfie request wasn't taken seriously. 😅 #WithTheTiger | 1.2× | 0 | 5k | 79 | 11 |
| 89 | Oct 6, '22 | One would think checking the player's banana is a bit too much, but ok. @chess24com | 1.2× | 0 | 4.3k | 221 | 17 |
| 90 | Jul 13, '22 | If this tweet gets 5000 likes I am going to ask champions tour organizers if I please please please can stop posting the daily pairing graphics. (I have to first download it, then | 1.1× | 0 | 4.9k | 33 | 1 |
| 91 | Mar 13, '21 | Happy Anniversary. ✌️💙#ChessChamps | 1.1× | 0 | 4.3k | 167 | 4 |
| 92 | Jul 20, '21 | Taking that 0.6 rating point home. 💪🤦🏻♂️ #FIDEWorldCup | 1.1× | 0 | 4.5k | 73 | 3 |
| 93 | Oct 30, '22 | Imagine though, suing two reigning chess world champions simultaneously.👀 | 1.1× | 0 | 4.4k | 119 | 8 |
| 94 | Oct 21, '22 | I'm not a lawyer, but | 1.1× | 0 | 4.4k | 73 | 10 |
| 95 | Nov 4, '21 | Today is that day of the year when all my Indian friends are suddenly all pretty and in HD on Instagram. | 1.1× | 0 | 4.4k | 94 | 4 |
| 96 | Oct 28, '22 | I am pretty sure this is the best chess related clip I had ever seen. | 1.1× | 0 | 4.2k | 131 | 63 |
| 97 | Nov 29, '21 | If GothamChess was in the match, we would see 14 decisive games and 0 draws. The players would have a fist fight at some point and chairs will be thrown. | 1.1× | 0 | 4.3k | 93 | 7 |
| 98 | Apr 18, '22 | Like this tweet if you sometimes trade a bishop for a knight unprovoked. | 1.1× | 0 | 4.3k | 64 | 4 |
| 99 | Sep 21, '21 | Top chess players can't start their tournament, because apparently "Samay is reaching 1700". 🤦♂️ We need elitism back.😢 | 1.0× | 0 | 4.2k | 123 | 7 |
| 100 | Jul 13, '21 | @ReheSamay no worries man, I can send you a photo from Sochi and you can upload it as well | 1.0× | 0 | 4.3k | 44 | 2 |
| 101 | Feb 22, '21 | I was always skeptical about the world in which chess is an e-sport, but if in that world MC gets trolled by @xQc for not winning enough games, then count me in. 🤓🤝 #PogChamps3 | 1.0× | 0 | 4.1k | 103 | 10 |