How will Hikaru's subs do vs @Gothamchess in a 960 Fischer Random Sub Battle? 

Not enough lower ranked players for entertainment 😕

Hikaru: Are you sure about that? Levy: At this level yes. Every single time

Regarding the origins of esports, I‘m always sad when StarCraft isn‘t mentioned. It was the first esport people made careers out of 2 decades ago (if at the time only in Korea).

i feel like another good variant of sub battles would be Puzzle Battle, although i don't know how well the lower-rated players would do since many of them don't understand how puzzles work

That last game got me rolling.

Chess could have been an E-sport way earlier but it needed a big spark to kick it off and bring the two communities together, I don't know much about the chess side but the scary thing with games is that the developers always need to change things and keep things new and it's an active product whereas chess now is in a great situation where it has no need for change and it is a well known widely spread game that people have a very favourable opinion of. I think chess is a surprisingly good investment for real teams / competitors to be sponsored like E-sports have been without being at risk of developers making choices that benefit the product in ways that are unhelpful or detrimental to the game as a sport because games currently are ultimately for a casual audience whereas chess has been a competitive sport potentially leading to a huge shift in the chess community for the better as an E-sport.

Gotham: *anything* Hikaru: “right, right”

“We have Kevin Durant now, but other than that, no.” 😂😂😂

25:30 said this exact thing in one of the Pogchamps videos and got absolutely destroyed by a bunch of gatekeeping chess "experts". Time is way too valuable for such new players. Making random moves was better than making good moves since it saved your clock

We've got Kevin Durant now 🐍🐍😂😂

I don't know what to make of any position in normal chess , 960 feels like that ×10

Hikaru 7:09 - 7:12 absolutely godly! 😂

6:22 shoutout to Kris Littlejohn! Comes up with some insane lines.

These guys have a pretty good career roasting their subs.

This just popped up on my RU-vid. Anyway, we need these guys back, after the Candidates. :)

50:49 white can't castle because all of the squares between his king's initial and final position have to be unattacked. and in this position, e1 is attacked by the knight.

Im quite sure i have seen interview of Hikaru saying he cant watch low elo games at all a few years back? Because he can see all mistakes clear as day. Now he's gotten used to watch them play, enjoy their games and say that they've been playing well. I'm sure its difficult for GM to accept "beginner mistakes", but Hikaru can actually accept it really well. (Im sorry if that wasn't Hikaru who said that, it could've been Carlsen aswell... cant recall)

44:00 😂😂😂

Where are the sub 1k players? We want the bloodbath!

These people seem to all be objectively worse than their ratings suggest. How are they hanging so many pieces and having 1 move blunders??? Maybe the combination of nerves from being in the comp and the 960 variant messed them up?

Bring out the 400 elos

Hikaru it's a London! Yooooo 😂

All of Hikaru's flexing lately has really paid off 🤣

this gotham Subs vs Hikaru Subs is great... ^^

does anyone else not think increment would be a good addition? winning on time is so anticlimactic i feel

Man that is So Confusing the switch between the channels is Crazy

Still wondering why Hikaru has two RU-vid channels 🤔. Can’t he post these videos in his first channel? Anyone knows?

24:18 omfg dude XD

Will there be any more battles?

Buena partida del doctor Debombi Ban DeBumbo

Vladimir's cup when?

9:29 Hey Jmobbon88!

love the content

Hey jmobon88 @9:35

So you have more than one channel😂

God of sun

Does anyone have a link to when Larrydavidlookalike owned Gothamchess?

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hi can you make a reaction video about the ufc fight, adesanya vs costa

Nice

I like to join one sub battle. How do you know when they are having sub battle? I cannot play bullet or blitz.

Lol

The only thing Hikaru won't agree with Levy is agreeing to disagree

Binod

I hate this mode