Post-game Press Conference with Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura | Round 13 | FIDE Candidates 

the only one who can out talk him lol

Nepo is so eloquent, he is nearly equally expressive as nakamura. SO there is a draw in the press conference as well

Because Nepo thinks he knows more than he does and Hikaru understands the game much better so he doesn't argue with him.

@@vasilismavroudis4211except nepo is a two time world championship contender and hikaru is not.

@@Aks.868 key word there, contender. Nepo hasn’t won anything

Even at those levels one prefers material to protecting the king who is just lazy. Hahaha

Ok

Based on the engine eval here I'd say Hikaru is more correct than Nepo on this position. Hikaru's idea to trade rooks and put the queen on d4 isn't best and still leads to a completely equal position. Black has better options that lead to a nearly winning position, so Hikaru's intuition that the two pawns are more valuable than white's activity seems to be correct. There's definitely no threat of getting mated anytime soon.

Objectively

can you repeat the questions?

Exactly! 😂

He is very bright, period.

He only thinks he knows, Hikaru actually understands the game much better and just sees that there's no point to really argue with him.

How can you say one is much better from their standings

@@vasilismavroudis4211 bro I like Hikaru as much as the next person but even I'm not gonna simp for him that hard

They both have a classic WTF face.😂😂😂 Ding would make a crap ton of money even if he loses the WCC. Doesn’t make sense for him not to play. So yeah. Bad question.

Ok

But ok...

It's like they filter out good questions and allow only stupid ones

What questions would you ask smartboy

@@stevo7220definitely not “are you also thinking about second place?” Lmao

@@SgtJuls okay fair, but I was expecting for you to give me such examples not quote them....

Hikaru was in a must win situation whether or not Gukesh won. He can't gamble on Nepo and Caruana tying their games just to get into a four way tie break. I think Gugesh winning changes basically nothing for him.

@@curio78 Yes, I know, but it doesn't change the fact that he is playing for a win was my point.

Perfectly synced😂

underrated comment 😂😂

One good question would have been if Hikaru confused his preparation and if Nepo and Hikaru were aware of the chances at that point. I was really wondering about that but nobody mentioned it.

Yes.m.

​@elia😅svonbrille

Cause FIDE still don't know how to manage the hype

Ok

Ian has no chance against Fabi in white 😅

Ok

a principled soviet-style chess machine

Ok

He’s just showing the lines he considered in the game? Not sure why ppl would be annoyed since the entire point of the conference is to discuss thoughts during the game lol

Yes

but at the time gukesh was still playing, you can see they even give their thoughts of the game in the end

She has a name card in front of her.

the fact that none of the other reporters even dared to ask a question after that reply is crazy 🥲

+ don't know how to keep up with players' variations

@@Sodnikawould you?

Stupid RU-vid user. Embarrassing comment.

@@ThatRaisinTho what a dumb thing to say

Why would that be a bad thing?

Right????? A nobody. Put someone else top level in there

Ridiculous, you don't have to be a super GM to conduct an interview. Thanks for reconfirming the biases that are prevalent within the sport.

She looks man enough to me what's your problem

Why cant there be a woman asking questions smh

@@GavinTheMistborn no, you don’t need to be a GM, but you need to be at least competent and likable. As we all know, women have their own category in chess - a completely non-physical game - since, as we all know, they would get destroyed playing against men. So why do we have women interviewing top male players?

Go play fortnite