Post-game Press Conference with Hikaru Nakamura and Alireza Firouzja | Round 12 | FIDE Candidates 

He mentally checked out of the tournament a while ago. Seems like he’s just completing his contractual obligations at this point.

it's sad cuz this is second chance and he even "cheated" to get to the Candidates

What da dawg doin?

@@matthewglenguir7204 cheated ?

No, He seems calm, he even smiles, at the beginning he is clearly in the tank, still analyzing the game.

Yeah to be fair if I were Alireza I would have a hard time bringing myself to interview

In most cases,it's always the winner yapping around how great they are but Firouza showing up made this interview even more worth watching. Props to our FrenchMan 👹❤

I think they are forced by contract to show up even when they lose. At least they are forced to do media. I'm not sure if its every interview

Funny everyone forgot how his camp orchestrated some random tournaments to qualify, but ends up getting smacked ☠️

​@@youknowit-Arpitdo they not all show up?

lmao the way he just grabs the mouse 😂😂

He fails to mention here and two or three other post match recaps that after White played Ra7 that instead of ...Ra4 which still draws (...g5 soon after is just utter madness and hard to grasp) black can just play pawn to a4 followed by moving the rook and it looks like a very simple draw? A very poor game by oth players (for this level) and very messy game of not great value. Naka was very lucky but deserved to wi coz Firuja was rubbish. Naka will do well to get such GIFTS in the last tow rounds, Assume he will at best get a draw from the last two games or lose both, end in 4th place?

@@dublintvcontent2023I mean the whole point of choosing these strange/uncommon lines is that beyond prep, the players don't necessarily know the best moves anymore. They're hoping their prep gets them in a better situation. It's not really to play perfect with perfect openings, or they'd all be on equal playing field and just draw. The goal is to choose openings that will potentially result in "mistakes" from both sides, but with you hopefully having the opening advantage and your opponent making more. Then instead of opening theory or remembering old games, it is a matter of skill with the pieces, which no one is 100% perfect at.

@@spinninglinkthey gave him the mouse. They cut it in this one but in another interview the interviewer asks him to grab the mouse and go through it

@@riley1636 Prep by Naka has been rubbish (for this level) and he has been getting away with it.Practical approach over trying to play high level or and creative ideas. Triumph of banal, mediocre reductionist , pragmatic approach to some degree.

He is not a to ten player. He will do well to stay in the top 20 but probably deserve it. Greatly overrated player for a few years now. Still a great player but not more than a top 15 at best ,going forward (maybe 11 or 12th - if he improves)

​@@dublintvcontent2023he is the youngest player to achieve 2800...its just he took a break to pursue fashion a bit

@@dublintvcontent2023 His peak was n°2 in the world in 2021 and three years after that, he is still in the top 10, what u mean lol

@@dublintvcontent2023 you do not get 2800 being a top 15 player. Does not happen. If you can't stay objective stay away from chess.

@@NMHChess "taking a break to pursue" this or that is not something you can "just" do if you're an elite player. the top level chess is a cut-throat world, you need to be 100% focused, otherwise it doesn't matter how talented you are, because all the other guys are also insanely talented AND fully focused. and in my opinion trying another career isn't even a problem in and of itself - it's more of a symptom of a problem.

All those orchestrated tournaments in order to qualify went to 🗑️

He is done with chess

Unfunny

​@@aleemazeez263unfunny is not a word 😂

@@seife41every english dictionary in the world disagrees with you

Agadmator released a video and all the possible lines he mentioned were discussed by Hikaru here. Hikaru is a machine.

I concur

Draw lol

We've been hearing that about Firouzja for years now. He's not really getting any younger as years go passing by.

@@milankotevski1663 Overrated AND over the hill compared to the slew of players on the rise. An impressive also ran, worthy of being in the top 20

Fake talent

@@milankotevski1663 He's still 20 years old lol

@@ShadowRM72 We're talking chess here. Not life excpectancy. Lol back at ya.

A China vs China matchup.

I believe!

Yeah. Like Magnus. I would love Hikaru to win FIDE, then Magnus decides to challenge again in 2 years. Match made in heaven

Yeah sure genius. He'll take some random guy's advice and ditch his father who has supported his chess journey for 20 years even though his father doesn't even play chess himself. Keyboard warriors are funny. I agree with the last part of your sentence though, he has the potential to win a lot.

@@thesurrealist7 his father has no mind control to make firouja mentally stronger. He is fight creator toxic not good. He also impacting firouja career in wrong way. Look at gukesh pragnanandha in case.

This is what I was saying the whole time. He needs a very good coach who also is a very good Psychologist who can help him both in chess and mental strength. Not his father nor his brother can do that. Please Alireza, if you are reading this, Please reconsider your team. Daniel King can be a very good coach! There are a lot you can chose from of course.

Wait his father is coaching him?

Its cause since ur only 800 level, u dont understand.

@@zatoichimasseur6767 are you okay bud?

Mr. Zatoichi I'm a 1700 and even I see that after g5 Hikaru is winning a pawn after exchanges. Do you have what it takes to explain Ra1 which Alireza would've played instead of g5 (which is a completely insane move, giving up a pawn)

@@phd.inanime3427 I mean, it's obviously an awful move. I think the only real explanation is nerves. First there's the pressure of time control, and then once he could finally "breathe" again, he lost a bit of tension and blundered. I see it frequently in other contexts too. I've done it myself pretty frequently in video games too. (Executing some extremely difficult sequence of moves, and then immediately once I lose that tension, screwing up on an easy one).

Panic and stress

g5*

Most blunders happen on move 39 and 41. But what did he miss? No idea

@@tobyquaite8616 Pathetic and suck.

Not gonna happen

​@@darkwarlord3224 how do you know? 🧐

@@darkwarlord3224 I mean its possible, unfortunate he has black against nepo but maybe draw nepo and win the last one could be gg

According to the statisticians on twitter, Hikaru has 39% of winning it, while Nepo has 31%. I guess they aren't taking it into consideration that Nepo is white against Nakamura, which gives him an advantage.

​@@phd.inanime3427what are their stats based on?

Yup. Seemed like a message for his team.

@@axelbauh7937I don’t think so, he trusts all the people in his team I assume. It might seem like his files has been hacked or smth

@@conradnal8934 so you telling me that someone in charge of the security measures screwed things up.

@@axelbauh7937 I have no idea but it seems more likely than someone of his team snitching the files. It is also possible that both teams are using the same engine and the same logic to search for lines. That’s actually the most probable I’d say. Ian was surprisingly well prepared in their first game and in the press he almost wanted to show off how well he knew the line, something to keep in mind. Hopefully hikaru will provide explanation for all of this

Naka should have replied "You mean it looked as if you were playing."

Hikaru just switches to streaming mode, lol

nah, it's just good sportsmanship and good spirit of research (notice that they usually call themselves white/black instead of I/you)

He wont! 4th probably. Maybe 3rd

They don’t have to show up btw…

I think having a dry officer is good if you have a streamer like Hikaru who basically runs the interview all by himself. But you would need a more active and emotional one if you are interviewing 2 players that are more of the introvert kind

His camp orchestrated some tournaments to qualify, only to end up like this ☠️

@@pauljoseph3081 Maybe he's playing for experience as he knows currently these old guys will beat the crap out of everyone, and after 4-6 years Firouzja is going to be world champion anyways.

@@phd.inanime3427 That's a bold prediction for someone who's playing mediocre chess like this. That's not a winner's mentality, that's incompetence and it pays off - not in a good way tho

​@@pauljoseph3081mediocre chess? Take your meds bro

@@phd.inanime3427 bruh prag, gukesh have already played better then him in their first candidates aged 18 & 17, even abdu, arjun and vincet are playing better then him, he has to focus more and make a comeback like wei yi

How did Gukesh qualify again, remind me? Chennai Masters lol, sus af

@@thesurrealist7 How did Gukesh performed so far against Alireza again? Remind me

@@pauljoseph3081 doesn't matter does it genius? You brought up a separate point. I responded to that separate point. Keep the same standards all across the board or have no standards at all.

@@thesurrealist7 How did your Alireza performed against Gukesh? 🤡 That's what happens when your cherry picking your opponents in your own fabricicated tournament only to qualify in FIDE HAHAHAHAHA

They’re…analyzing their thoughts…that’s kinda the point of this, like “oh I wonder what he was thinking when he made this move”…they were thinking of other ultimately-unplayed positions…not sure what you were expecting clicking on this

you must be 900

True man 😂

They are not analysing billions of lines, they're analysing moves they were thinking of playing or missed to move the game in their favour. Play chess and you'll understand.

Tell me you're a three digit rating player without telling me your a three digit rating player

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