@@JustPretendThisIsACoolName who said that tho lol. Don't get offended over nothing

​@@Arif-kw5rw I know you were joking, Idk why I wrote that honestly 😂

@Ed Straker You can say that this is just one competition but it's still the most recent one and Hikaru came out on top in this one so he basically is the best player of the event

​@Ed Straker the one that dropped 18 rating points.

@Ed Straker Yes but now Hikaru is number 2 in the world

welcome back everyone

welcome back everyone

Every body enjoys winning ❤💥✨

Yep. I looked up his rating history and it seems the last time he was #2 in the world was way back in 2015. It must be unheard of to take a hiatus that long to come back as world #2.

Lmao i remember wheb people said he's washed and bad at classical like 2 years ago

@@darthrevan6861 well he called himself bad at classical many times. His lightning speed thinking is insane blitz but classical is mostly endurance competition and team preparation

It's very interesting. He has said before he used to get overly stressed and streaming provides him release. I wonder if that's helping him

If only Hikaru wasn't such a dislikeable personality...

Same, Fabi is such a stand up guy and hard working chess player. But happy for Hikaru.

Yes, Only reason I started playing and watching chess is because of Hikaru stream

+1

he paved the way to make chess so accessible to everyone he paved the way to make the best players accessible, and full of personalities, effectively turning them from boring textbook biographies to rockstars full of life.

I think chess is booming because of Levy( Gotham chess) and you can see most of the followers of hikaru like me, first got into chess by levy then we come to hikaru

@@v.k.sharma9240 that’s pretty true for me levy got me interested hikaru got me hooked to the game

I hope you get some help

top 5 right now yes, but of all time not even close, even in the last 10 years if u look at average ratings of players u get at least 5 beating him or being on the same level, top 5 of making it popular definitely maybe even number one here

Him and Vishy get a massive boost for their impact on the game

He's currently world #2 in live rankings. Top 5 in history? Not a chance. Only in your uniformed mind a non world champion could be #2 in history. Not even the greats like Kerees, Korchnoi, and Bronstein are considered top 5 in history. Yet those are chess giants universally respected.

​@@hattherola7330 . That might be true but if your criteria for all time greats is a popularity contest no one before Fischer would be in the top 5. People like Morphy, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, and Botvinnik would get buried and forgotten in chess history. Its nice that Hikaru popularizes chess but decades from now he will be remembered for his contributions and achievements OTB just like the masters before him - not for his popularity.

​@@MrSupernova111 I you're going too far the other way. He's not universally loved, or an all-time top 5... but he certainly universally resepcted over the board. He's 10th strongest player of all time, a contender for strongest blitz-player of all time, will go down in history as one of the most influential and transformative players, and apparently is getting a second wind in his mid 30s, with one of his strongest tournement wins to date... He's absolutely universally respected.

even better the streamer is rated number 2 in the world now they say

True, hikaru did ruin fabis candidates and now this

Nah I don't think he wants that

And play Ding? Let’s be honest he doesn’t consider it a world championship.

@@ucsbrat Hikaru likes money a lot. He might go for it just for the money.

He won Norway Chess on his day off

I've played over 150k games myself. Means nothing in chess.

@Harry Sanger he is real , that's what he is

@Harry Sanger . Unfortunately, chess is being overran by uninformed by fanboys with less than 1 year of chess experience. The average elo in the comment section is around 1200 yet they speak like they have been playing and following chess since Karpov won his first world championship.

@@MrSupernova111 calling them 1200 is a compliment

​@@MrSupernova111 what's your ELO? not to argue but ur acting like 1200 is bad

@@synfoxy . I recently hit 2300 on lichess.

how old are you

@@Frank-wr2nf Sus question.

Who's complaining? Sound to me like you just like drawing attention to yourself.

@@MrSupernova111 chess streams and comment sections are all full of Hikaru haters lol.

​@@YehNahYehAyy show me one example.

whats that?

@@Cartman5101 the tournament that decides who becomes the challenger to the next world chess championship

its the highest rated, most important, difficult, and prestigious Tournament in the world.

nothing to do with invite. Has to qualify.

​@@maxwalker7504i mean isnt there like a spot reserved for FIDE , like how they invited Radjabov the last time? or some wild cards?

Chris Littlejohn, Hikaru's second.

Its big but chess itself is a boring sport for a causal viewer. Lets say something like football, a casual player can just follow the ball and see whos kicking it at the back of the net. Chess isnt like that. You need to be Atleast 1000 rated to even follow what the commentators are saying and even higher rated to see the ideas yourself. But its all good, Hikaru has alot of fans who is congratulating him on his youtube,kick,twitch and I think hes happy with that