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.
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 😄😂
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.
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!
@@ExcelStrategy He's got to make it to at least one classical WC before age 40 and then try to improve his 1 W and 20 L record against the real GOAT first. Imo.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
