@@Iakosa on other times it's other way around.. Way to check it as well is to check the knight size when hikaru mentions it, it really has a tiny variation in sizes
@@Iakosa I thought it was that too at first, but same color pieces on same colored squares are also different sizes at several points. Look at the space below a piece from the bottom of the square and it’s really obvious. Edit: Look especially at the C-pawn at 18:21. It’s obviously smaller than the other light-squared pawns.
@@Iakosa No it's not. When he clicks on them they get bigger. Try it yourself with arcade animations. It's very, very clear, not sure how you can think it's an optical illusion.
Hikaru, i made a screenshot and checked the size of the pawns and bishops with photoshop, there are some smaller ones, it's not just an impression or the effect of drugs.
The pieces are different sizes because the devs don't reset the piece sizes when you unhover a piece. While hovered, the pieces pulsate (change sizes) and when unhovered it simply leaves the size where it left off rather than resetting.
If you look at the base of the g pawn, you notice it is slightly lower than the f pawn, it does appear to be slightly bigger, I think it's something to do with the animations
some pawns appear bigger because of the piece animation Hikaru is using. When you select a piece that piece has a pulse animation cycling from slightly larger to smaller to give a pulsing illusion. When you drop a piece the animation freezes. So if the piece is placed while it's on the larger part of the pulse animation it becomes frozen as "large". That's why it some pawns look larger at times.
Imagine being a Grandmaster, having dedicate tons of your time in studying chess since you were a child, only to get tilted you lost a random blitz game and time stall the whole clock LOL.
White's rook was bigger than blacks rook when blacks rook was on the A file. A few pixels were condensed to make the numbers on the file fit in the square better.
Every game, Hikaru makes a "movie" it has people places things an entire storyline... the game that is. Then he robs you blind in 2 moves at the end. I'm gonna call these games out right here, as something special... some big time psychology going on in these positions. It's as if Hikaru knows from move 7 that between moves 20-30 he has to force your queen away from the defense of a corner that will make a -3 position from move 6 work. Just to let you know on move 4 of a chess game there are 400 different positions. By move 6, 17,000.
When he looks up to the right and thinks. I always wonder what the heck he is thinking to come up with a specific move. Decades of experience probably helps
The White Pawns are bigger on the White Squares, my opinion is that they have a different models for different colours, like the white on white is the standard size and the different board colour changes it.
The ponds are different sizes but it’s really an optical illusion. It’s because when the ponds are on white they look bigger when they on dark squares they look smaller. The same with the bishops and the knight, queens etc
There has been larger pieces than others since the beginning, how is it that only now most people notice it. I'm pretty sure Hikaru also knew for a while and he did say he could see it at the end. I think it's because of the animations, I don't what people are saying about the different colored squares lol.
I honestly can't tell if he was trolling with the "pieces are the same size" line. It feels like he is, like he knows there's some setting that does this, but I know for a fact that the pieces are different sizes at the start of the match before he's even clicked anything because I took a screenshot and used the line tool to make sure. Some of the pieces are just consistently bigger than others and I cannot unsee it.
He's trolling. It's been brought up many times and they figured it out on stream a while back. When you select a piece it does a "pulse" animation. The size depends on when you release the mouse click.
the knights are definitely not the same size. look at the pixels from the bottom of the piece to the bottom of the square. There is a noticeable difference.
So, for anyone who still doubts his reality, all you gotta do is look under each pieces for the amount of space there, the ones that are in fact bigger have less space underneath. It isn't simply an optical illusion about the white on white making it looks smaller. Also: lmfao.
the pawns where not the same size the piezes on the black squares were smaller and u can actually seet the gap between the squares bottom line and the bottom of the piece its smaller on the lightsquares than on the black squares.
The white pieces have a black outline is hidden on the purple background giving the apparent of larger on white squares when you include the outline in the object size
Those pawns were actually bigger.. And Hikaru justification was stupid they were not over lapping, they were repelling so how could you say they are same size...
I got so stressed that Hikaru doesn´t noticed or at least acknowledged the difference in size... and they are different in size from the beginning of the game, nothing to do with any sort of animation or if you take a piece or what so ever.
