Even if he doesn't end up being in the top 2. The win over Fabiano and the performance within this tournament should pretty much solidify his spot through the point rankings. Unless he shits the bed in a tournament between now and January 2024 at least. Him winning here would allow Alireza to attend.
I know he does his recap and analysis on his channel as well but just him standing there explaining the game and taking questions makes me believe he would make a killer mentor.
Always nice to see super GM's analysing their games, so we can take a human real approach of how to understand the tabias, not just with an engine judgement or stuff!
@@wabdihI’m guessing that he really does want to qualify for the candidates, but he feels that adopting the mindset that it’s ok if he doesn’t qualify increases his chances.
@@redskins973 For Hikaru qualifying is an "extremely nice to have" but not his main priority at the same time. Someone asked him if he falls behind Alireza in ratings would he jam in another tournament in December to get this ratings up and he said no, it's not that important to him, and if he doesn't qualify after this tournament so be it.
I was wondering which GM would finally tap on the evaluation during the interview you're obviously not supposed to for most of it congrats on Hikaru for having the cojones to do it. 🏆 Hikaru for world champ 🏆 🤞
@@abhinavshankar414 not 100% sure but maybe a soft rule I just noticed no player had the evaluation bar on during their interview but I saw the button and he said sorry before turning if on then turned it off for the rest of the review
@@limemlohdnul4795 perhaps but over the last couple broadcasts of tournaments I've noticed the announcers using the engineless as well and evaluating by themselves
@@limemlohdnul4795 You’ve missed the point entirely. And you’re wrong these days all the GM’s use an engine. I was pointing out differences in the broadcasting Since I started watching more tournaments a couple years ago till now.
He's been doing this in his head since he was a kid. He's only using the board for our sake to catch up and visualize something he can do without the board. He's a talent and if I were chess I'd say thank you for speaking for me 😄😂
Hikaru spoken at length about moving into streaming over being only chess has transformed his mental games and it shows in interviews and how he plays. Incredible!
@@johngeraltthat would be a very fun time for chess I think. Hikaru winning followed by the drama and thrill of watching Magnus blaze his way to the candidates and eventually challenging would be incredible
Hikaru actually has great record against Ding, so I think his biggest hurdle is winning the candidate. But despite his great record, I can’t give a new challenger without experience of WC anything above 50%
Great post game analysis from Hikaru. Unlike the video I watch before this where Hans Niemann seems very insecure, has very short and questionable variations his analysis is off and he keeps saying superficial or plain losing nonense.
Very prescient commentary from @gmhikaru on the quality of chess at the candidates tournament at the end there. All of the players at candidates are elite. The ones that will be. Successful are those who can control their nerves the best. For me, I've got 4 of my favortie players in the candidates already. I would like to see Anish added to the list because he's so pessimistic about chess. I think he walks in assuming he will draw, and then if his opponent makes mistakes, he will see winning chances. He doesn't really go into games to take risks and play for win from the opening.
Why is not turning on the engine evaluation or better why is he not allowed to? The game is over, so i don’t get it, maybe someone could explain me =) Appreciate it!
I don't think he is not allowed to. But people is interested in how he analyzes the game he just played and why he made some choices instead of others, not in how a supercomputer would have played the game.
The eval bar is quite good for assessing individual positions, but it assumes perfect play. If your goal is to see who has a better position at any point, it's quite useful, but if the point is to analyse an entire game and point out the likely moves and such it becomes unnecessary except to confirm that playing a certain line will give you an advantage or not - but in most cases a human can tell without the eval bar. And that's because computers play too well for humans and they make moves that simply don't make sense to us and it would be pointless to use that information unless you want to know how the game would have played out perfectly.
yes, he started streaming regularly after that loss but if he had won then he would've had to spend most of his time on preparing for the candidates and wouldn't have gotten into streaming.
He's kind of a dick when he explains things. He isn't like Magnus at all where he sort of has sorta has modesty. Unless he is kidding and I missed the joke.
are we talking about the same Magnus who - after he lost a game in the WC match against Karjakin - got so angry by Karjakin getting interviewed behind the scenes that he stormed out of the press conference because he didn't want to wait for a few minutes and couldn't stand not being interviewed first? : )
@@vibovitold I didn't say Magnus wasn't a sore loser. But from every post-game analysis I've seen of Magnus, he doesn't actively belittle his opponent. Hikaru is smug in almost every post-game I've seen.
Yeah, well yeah, I'm just above everybody else, I don't care about chess, I hardly even play chess. The candidates doesn't matter to me because I'm so special. I'm not like these chess players because I'm not even a chess player. That's my advantage is that these chess players care and I don't, I'm different because I'm special and these other people are just chess players.
@@trailblazer2001 In terms of chess performance he isn't even close to the most successful. And regardless of his financial good Fortune, success doesn't have to equate to arrogance. Hikaru has a personality disorder, but I know it's a waste of time talking to you fanbois
@@headholiohe's not literally the most successful of course, but he's the 10th highest rated player ever while some of the players ahead of him are either retired or semi-retired (Kasparov, Kramnik, Topalov, Anand). he's currently rated #3 in the world, he's been as high as #2 on the list more than once. if that's "not even close to the most successful", i don't know what is?
Am I the only one that thinks hikaru is kind of an a-hole? He always makes little unnecessary negative or offensive comments disguised as jokes or as normal comments.
No youre right, he is passive aggressive by nature, i think its because of jelousy to players like Magnus and the bad beats he has taken during his career, he feels entitled to be the best, its disgusting how he talks to Levy for example, he constantly belittle him when they collab in videos. He has a massive ego and pretends to not care, which he does probably more than anyone else of the top players. That being said, he is a great entertainer and you cant deny his skillset.
Fabi needs to just become a commentator. Retire. He can't beat Hikaru, how can he hope to be champion. Hikaru will be in the candidates. Might as well give up now. Lol. Lost in 18 moves. Just resign man
@@germanoscheller5095 both are equal. Caruana is slightly more consistent. Hikaru slightly more crative. Both have top overall. My impression is that hatters gonna hate. These guys breath chess. Nobody should think one is "better" than the other. But while you see younglings, streamer weirdos boosting Hikaru - his casualness attracts this unelegant commentors - the same is not seen Caruana-wise. His chess content is pretty mature and informational. So, yea, Hikaru bots shouldn't be lisetened to to begin with. The fact still remains: both have equal chances to win candidates and none to win against Magnus on a best of 12. My guess.
Wtf Fabi is still the best classical player in the world based in form for now. Losing to Hikaru is not a big deal as Hikaru is not just some random streamer, he's one of the best chess players of all time
Chess doesn't speak for itself. Hikaru speaks for chess.
Hikaru is such a beast right now. He could definitely win the candidates
doubtful
@@listen2luckihe has a 3-0 recent record against the #2 rated player...
@@listen2luckihe was ahead of ding in the last candidates until the last round, he almost made it to the world championship. He very well could win
Yes you are right he is a beast like a monkey
thats not a beast, a lion is a beast@@ExcelStrategy
Hikaru has really mastered his craft well. Hopefully he wins tomorrow and goes through the candidates
Even if he doesn't end up being in the top 2. The win over Fabiano and the performance within this tournament should pretty much solidify his spot through the point rankings. Unless he shits the bed in a tournament between now and January 2024 at least.
Him winning here would allow Alireza to attend.
He literally doesn't care
He made it
Other grand masters: extensive preparation with seconds and super computers
Hikaru: just play titled Tuesday bro
Love how he explains a casual crushing of one the world's best.
"Let me just take a look at the evaluation.... yeah, okay, so I did play well" :D
I know he does his recap and analysis on his channel as well but just him standing there explaining the game and taking questions makes me believe he would make a killer mentor.
Hikaru is definitely one of the best players of this century
Always nice to see super GM's analysing their games, so we can take a human real approach of how to understand the tabias, not just with an engine judgement or stuff!
Not enough green arrows and wooden shield
Yeah man even better when an ultimate super gm explains
Hikaru is just a Giant , and explaining is the Best!
Lucky !
@@AMBER_TFTNot lucky. Have you seen match . He played 2 brilliant moves and won. That's simple.
I thought he was only like 5’2 or something
Yeah right, Blind people can't see the obvious!
@@DaDaRacingChannel are you a bot?
Hikaru in this interview: “I’m not really thinking about the candidates “
Hikaru on his YT channel “I may qualify for the candidates”
On his channel he also said that hes okay if he doesn't qualify because he can just stream more
@@wabdihI’m guessing that he really does want to qualify for the candidates, but he feels that adopting the mindset that it’s ok if he doesn’t qualify increases his chances.
@@redskins973i mean its kinda true tho based on what we’ve seen so far lol
@@redskins973 For Hikaru qualifying is an "extremely nice to have" but not his main priority at the same time. Someone asked him if he falls behind Alireza in ratings would he jam in another tournament in December to get this ratings up and he said no, it's not that important to him, and if he doesn't qualify after this tournament so be it.
he literally doesnt care
Thank you Hikaru, your commentary is invaluable! Greatly appreciated.
The man the legend the streamer!!
That's exquisite chess play. The strategic issues, the focus on the right things, the concise variations. It's perfect!
Hikaru is a huge asset to the chess world.
Hikaru is amazing with analyzing his games 🤗
Hikaru analysis is like a machine make stockfish has no job 😂
Hans analysing his game be like:
CHESS SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
I was wondering which GM would finally tap on the evaluation during the interview you're obviously not supposed to for most of it congrats on Hikaru for having the cojones to do it.
🏆 Hikaru for world champ 🏆 🤞
why are you not supposed to? they can do whatever they want, no one is gonna stop them
@@abhinavshankar414 not 100% sure but maybe a soft rule I just noticed no player had the evaluation bar on during their interview but I saw the button and he said sorry before turning if on then turned it off for the rest of the review
@@limemlohdnul4795 perhaps but over the last couple broadcasts of tournaments I've noticed the announcers using the engineless as well and evaluating by themselves
@@limemlohdnul4795 You’ve missed the point entirely. And you’re wrong these days all the GM’s use an engine. I was pointing out differences in the broadcasting Since I started watching more tournaments a couple years ago till now.
@@limemlohdnul4795 thanks for regurgitating what I said and admitting you don't know 🤗
I was waiting for his references like wooden shields and kabobs
He's been doing this in his head since he was a kid. He's only using the board for our sake to catch up and visualize something he can do without the board. He's a talent and if I were chess I'd say thank you for speaking for me 😄😂
Hikaru for world champion ..!!! God speed brother ..!!!
Hey don’t copy my profile pic! 😂
@@ReverseFlash23 😂😂😂😂
Hikaru spoken at length about moving into streaming over being only chess has transformed his mental games and it shows in interviews and how he plays. Incredible!
His mind is going at 1 million miles per hour. Interesting to see his evaluation and take on the game.
So this is what GM level analysis is supposed to sound like. Nice.
welcome to todaaaaaays video - hikaru ;)
Hikaru is in excellent form. He will be in the canidates
This man makes it look so easy
Hikaru's chess speaks for itself.
*power to the beads*
Next champion!
Crazy how can someone call him a cheater after this multilayered analysis. Compare his analysis vs Hans explaining his moves lol
"vs Hans explaining his moves"
what explanation
I see hikaru winning the candidates
Then winning world champion
I wonder if Magnus decides to challenge for it if Hikaru does win it.
@johngeralt magnus he is no longer world champion
If he want to challenge he should play the candidates
@@johngeraltthat would be a very fun time for chess I think. Hikaru winning followed by the drama and thrill of watching Magnus blaze his way to the candidates and eventually challenging would be incredible
@@moelarry8088this would be the ultimate content of the chess history
Ding has a good score against Naka
I see good future for streaming for this GM, if he keeps up the good commentary....
Hikaru taking the chess world by storm right now. Everyone knows he is playing above his rating.
lets GO
Hikaru will win the candidates final because the performance here proven that
"drink some tea"😅
Hikaru actually has great record against Ding, so I think his biggest hurdle is winning the candidate. But despite his great record, I can’t give a new challenger without experience of WC anything above 50%
8:20 Hikaru literally doesn't care
I play 1.e4 e5 2.nf3 nc6 3.nc3 nf6 4. d4 exd4 nd5 instead of nxd4 (Belgrade Gambit)🧐🧐🧐
Chess doesn't speak for itself.
He says he doesn't care about the candidates, but started every breakdown video he did with a comment about making the candidates.
Great post game analysis from Hikaru. Unlike the video I watch before this where Hans Niemann seems very insecure, has very short and questionable variations his analysis is off and he keeps saying superficial or plain losing nonense.
SAVAGE
Hans struggled with this touchscreen analysis and said he'd rather be using lichess. Here Hikaru has no trouble with it at all.
What's that streamer doing in a chess tournament?
Hikaru is so short you can see his feet on his drivers license .
Tomorrow zero pressure the candidate are on the pocket at 99.997%.
Very prescient commentary from @gmhikaru on the quality of chess at the candidates tournament at the end there. All of the players at candidates are elite. The ones that will be. Successful are those who can control their nerves the best.
For me, I've got 4 of my favortie players in the candidates already.
I would like to see Anish added to the list because he's so pessimistic about chess. I think he walks in assuming he will draw, and then if his opponent makes mistakes, he will see winning chances. He doesn't really go into games to take risks and play for win from the opening.
He's just a streamer, he doesn't care :)
"Play for 5 years"
Beating Fabio is no easy task
Caruana suffers an inferiority complex against this clown
Who?
@@musical_lolu4811Fabio
Hikaru makes chess sound easy.
Why is not turning on the engine evaluation or better why is he not allowed to? The game is over, so i don’t get it, maybe someone could explain me =) Appreciate it!
It could mess with his thinking and analysis to have the eval bar jump up and down.
Chess is a human game. His thinking process is what the analysis here is for.
I don't think he is not allowed to. But people is interested in how he analyzes the game he just played and why he made some choices instead of others, not in how a supercomputer would have played the game.
The eval bar is quite good for assessing individual positions, but it assumes perfect play. If your goal is to see who has a better position at any point, it's quite useful, but if the point is to analyse an entire game and point out the likely moves and such it becomes unnecessary except to confirm that playing a certain line will give you an advantage or not - but in most cases a human can tell without the eval bar. And that's because computers play too well for humans and they make moves that simply don't make sense to us and it would be pointless to use that information unless you want to know how the game would have played out perfectly.
At 2:08 i thought there was an eartquake :D
Who says there wasn't?
@@31redorange08 :D
Don’t try to pacify me I play for wins like Hikaru nakamura
Beating fabi 3 times in a year is absolutely insane .. hikaru is at his peak . I wish he was more pleasant and funny though . Never happy face !!
What was the 3rd one? I only remember Norway, and this one
Caruana obviously has some psichological issues against this clown
@@colsonhicks4022 Last candidates tournament
The thing is that Mr Nakamura is more familiar with the English vernacular than even the commentators. Nor is he in awe of anyone. Typical New Yorker
Alireza needs to win games, he’s the only one that plays trickery chess
He hasn’t improved in three years
@@quandt4847maybe even becoming worse
@@quandt4847bro is a fashion designer now
The chess did not speak for itself, I guess
What are the obvious reasons why it was good he didn’t qualify for the 2019 candidates? Was it because he wouldn’t have started streaming?
yes, he started streaming regularly after that loss but if he had won then he would've had to spend most of his time on preparing for the candidates and wouldn't have gotten into streaming.
Campeón sin corona, el ídolo del pueblo.
I see we got “full of himself” Hikaru today
no spoilers, please, in the title, please!
wifey buff
Heres something hans cant do
I come from the future: HIKARU wins the CANDIDATES but loses the battle for the world champion.
Wow will ding play the champioship future man
Nah no way, If Hikaru wins candidate he's gonna destroy Ding, Ding has a very poor record against Hikaru
U mean he loses to Ding Liren ?
@@Rollin..Ding won't be chilling against Hikaru's pineapple shirt
Cringe
Its all really simple from here…. Lol for you
why does he look like a kid doing a presentation in class about chess
chess players are weird
go drink some tea waste more time and make Fabi suffer.. lol
Chimpa on working day
Caruana was not in a good form, I guess for a reason if you know what I mean 😅
nah bro, Hikaru just said that its better for everyone if he doesnt qualify through Grand Swiss because Alireza wont qualify by rating
@@bleyd__Caruan is already qualified
Candidates/WC lost its prestige with Carlsen's departure and Ding's inactivity -- not to mention FIDE's ever-deteriorating reputation.
yes turn off evaluation that says the opposite of your statements
He's kind of a dick when he explains things. He isn't like Magnus at all where he sort of has sorta has modesty. Unless he is kidding and I missed the joke.
are we talking about the same Magnus who - after he lost a game in the WC match against Karjakin - got so angry by Karjakin getting interviewed behind the scenes that he stormed out of the press conference because he didn't want to wait for a few minutes and couldn't stand not being interviewed first? : )
@@vibovitold I didn't say Magnus wasn't a sore loser. But from every post-game analysis I've seen of Magnus, he doesn't actively belittle his opponent. Hikaru is smug in almost every post-game I've seen.
@@Metallica9391how did he "belittle" Fabi though?
25 seconds in and he's dissing other players. LOL! Must be the most arrogant player on the circuit surely.
Yeah, well yeah, I'm just above everybody else, I don't care about chess, I hardly even play chess. The candidates doesn't matter to me because I'm so special. I'm not like these chess players because I'm not even a chess player. That's my advantage is that these chess players care and I don't, I'm different because I'm special and these other people are just chess players.
Relax buddy 😂 he is the most successful chess player for a reason. Obviously he is different.
@@trailblazer2001 In terms of chess performance he isn't even close to the most successful. And regardless of his financial good Fortune, success doesn't have to equate to arrogance. Hikaru has a personality disorder, but I know it's a waste of time talking to you fanbois
@@headholio You just mad for no reason lmao 😂
Wahhhh wahhhhh
@@headholiohe's not literally the most successful of course, but he's the 10th highest rated player ever
while some of the players ahead of him are either retired or semi-retired (Kasparov, Kramnik, Topalov, Anand).
he's currently rated #3 in the world, he's been as high as #2 on the list more than once.
if that's "not even close to the most successful", i don't know what is?
Am I the only one that thinks hikaru is kind of an a-hole? He always makes little unnecessary negative or offensive comments disguised as jokes or as normal comments.
No you are not the only one like the mo3on up here said.
I think you are just being a little too sensitive. Stop being offended over small things and your life would be more blissful.
what comment did he make in the interview?
Snowflake
No youre right, he is passive aggressive by nature, i think its because of jelousy to players like Magnus and the bad beats he has taken during his career, he feels entitled to be the best, its disgusting how he talks to Levy for example, he constantly belittle him when they collab in videos.
He has a massive ego and pretends to not care, which he does probably more than anyone else of the top players.
That being said, he is a great entertainer and you cant deny his skillset.
Caruana noob
Caruana second highest rated player in the world
it's almost 2024 and these smooth-brained trolls are still using the word 'noob' 😂
gotta step it up kiddo 💩
@@aries2764 you should be able to win a chess game first to that person u calling smooth-brained. Otherwise, ur opinion is like no important
wtf do you mean "noob" lmao
Ah yes The 2 Time defending US Chess Champion, 2018 WCC Challenger, 3rd Highest Rated player in history, USA No. 1 and World No. 2 is a Noob
Fabi needs to just become a commentator. Retire. He can't beat Hikaru, how can he hope to be champion. Hikaru will be in the candidates. Might as well give up now. Lol. Lost in 18 moves. Just resign man
Hold your horses. Caruana is a beast. Here in Brasil 🇧🇷 we call him Caruborg. He is fitter than Hikaru. Caruana doesn't have a sick ego underneath.
Caruana is able to beat Hikaru on a good day.
@@germanoscheller5095 both are equal. Caruana is slightly more consistent. Hikaru slightly more crative. Both have top overall.
My impression is that hatters gonna hate. These guys breath chess. Nobody should think one is "better" than the other. But while you see younglings, streamer weirdos boosting Hikaru - his casualness attracts this unelegant commentors - the same is not seen Caruana-wise. His chess content is pretty mature and informational. So, yea, Hikaru bots shouldn't be lisetened to to begin with. The fact still remains: both have equal chances to win candidates and none to win against Magnus on a best of 12. My guess.
Wtf Fabi is still the best classical player in the world based in form for now. Losing to Hikaru is not a big deal as Hikaru is not just some random streamer, he's one of the best chess players of all time
@@susbedo9258forgetting someone?
Hans needs to take notes