You are 100% correct! Shame on this loser eric!!!!

Shame on you where did u learn to call someone loser

Pin of shame

@@Brian-tx5ezexactly what I was thinking the pot calling the kettle black

“Nobody cares about your opinion” you said it yourself buddy.

Top 1 when it comes to online :)

Second best is drunk carlsen?

​@@haymatlost_it's Cagnus Marlsen

I mean Kramnik isnt sayi ng that Hikaru is a bad Player. But eben top Players could possibly cheat for whatever reason

@@SuperBiggy17 Do you really believe Naka needs an engine? Kramnik is hitting the bottle again. He's not serious.

I'm shocked it wasn't 100

He was losing in at least 4 of the games, but in the end he won 3 by flagging and drew 1. Perfectly consistent with the rating difference. Today those 5 players have an average rating of 2946 vs Hikaru's 3314

He trounsed Simon Williams a few years back. Pretty much anyone who isnt a top ten-twenty player could get a tough time against him.

Okay a 3000 vs a 3300 wins at least 1/45 tho cmon

300 rating is huge. Doesn't seem like much, maybe. But you cannot lose to a 300 lower rated player. That almost never happens.

Don’t think he cheated, but if you are a super grandmaster you could talk through why the computer recommend move, is the best move extremely easily.

The drug is called Iliterallydontcare

@@Boberman286 That's fair, but also Hikaru talks pre-moves a lot and talks about moves he plans to make down the line. Not saying it's impossible to cheat in blitz online, but it seems very unlikely in HIkaru's case, especially considering how fast he moves and how many hours he plays on camera.

@@Temptthedevil The same thing counts here. I don't think Hikaru is cheating, but it's a lot easier to cheat and get away with it when you're already a super GM

he can be good at chess and still cheat you if you see the top computer move you can always try to explain why it is the best move what you say doesnt prove anything

Exactly. To the layman, Hikaru doesn't talk much sense when he is making moves while dancing to music on stream, but to the connoisseur of Hikky content, it is obvious he is constantly outlining very human (but brilliant) plans with comments like "I take the juicer and consolidate", "takes takes takes and the juicer is hanging", "juicer here", "What is that?!", "you guys did I just blunder? Omg I just blundered. Wait no I might be alright. Okay I like my position here," "I should be winning here, but it isn't clear. I'll just flag him I guess," " you guys I literally don't care", "Okay chat I need to focus", "He should resign here. This is Gg's." It's not like Hikaru plays weird deep computer lines lol. He just has insanely quick pattern recognition. One of his favourite openings is the King's Indian Defense, which computers hate. It's objectively bad for black but he plays it anyway because he's so good at playing positionally and making small moves with deep understanding of how the endgame will play out. He's not playing brilliant moves every game or anything of the sort. He just plays insanely good. I think even Magnus fears Hikaru's ability to wriggle out of lost positions. I love Kramnik, but this is kind of an embarrassing accusation.. especially when he is playing people with high online ratings who probably don't have anywhere near Hikaru's rating in classical chess, and probably have half the experience playing chess that Hikaru does. If anyone should be accused of cheating, it would be people with a 2900 online rating beating Hikaru like... three or four times in a row. That I would find more surprising tbh. Hikaru made chess his entire life. He doesn't have side quests like Magnus. And people are surprised when he is inhumanly good at it? I also hope Ian isn't seriously accusing Hikky of this.

Sorry for the long reply/ rant. I was just responding to you mentioning Hikaru outlines his plans during the game, which he totally does. And not in a "the chess speaks for itself" kind of way. He makes his plans understandable for his viewers, which is saying something (I am one of his viewers from time to time)

Ian had a pretty tough history with Hikaru, I don't want to say it with100% certainty, but the dude seems to hate Hikaru. Which is why imo, if Hikaru ever get accused of cheating, I bet your ass Ian would be in one of them

@@aa-fi9ks my take is that Nepo thinks kramnik's attack is at least flawed - imao!

Well said

Yeah kind of crazy to me Hikaru kind of like a legend

he's never won the world blitz championship so calling him the best blitz player in the world is the biggest stretch ever. It's like calling the Belgian football team the best team in the world for being ranked #1 at some point despite winning sod all

@@Matthew-bu7fg largely an irrelevant point, he’s currently number two in the world according to the rankings. The original point stands firmly. The difference between a super grandmaster and a very weak grandmaster is almost day and night, yet we’re surprised the number 2 in the world in blitz can destroy some FMs and IMs?

@@Matthew-bu7fgonly because Magnus exists and Magnus is just so much better than everyone else. But Hikaru has consistently won second and third place in otb world blitz championships.

​​​​@@3rdEarlRussell but Magnus still isn't 3600. It is true that Hikaru's online performance is much better than what he does in World rapid or blitz. To quote Hikaru himself, "is pretty sus ". But yeah his otb performance have also been consistently decent, so imo not enough reason to doubt him.personally I think Hikaru just has nerves issue in world titles, plus Magnus is serious there.

This is a good point

Yeah extremely good with its media bots army too

True for magnus as well, maybe even more. Hikaru himself said he once felt that pressure against magnus and these days he feels more relaxed which leads to him playing better against magnus at least in online matches in recent years.

Yeah I agree. @@x0cx102

Exactly this, it’s surely a big factor in why Alireza doesn’t dominate online blitz like Magnus and Hikaru do even though he’s rated higher than both of them OTB in blitz. Also Magnus and Hikaru both consistently get bad positions out of the opening so they’re both used to turning games around and swindling in time pressure. It’s not remotely unfathomable that Hikaru could go on a streak like this against considerably lower rated opponents occasionally when he plays so much online blitz

Kramnik is a former world champion.I don't think he's jealous.It's just that he's lost his marbles.

Geniuses always end up mad in their old age. It seems to be inevitable.

@@jackbicknell4711 yes - it is because the neurons become destabilized and all logic goes out the door

Jealousy.

Sour grapes?! Impossible. Russians would never do that. Clearly a chess conspiracy.

Yeah jelous people man

Russians come from a place where you don't have democracy. Delete your comment. That was the stupidiest thing I have ever heard@@bigolboomerbelly4348

yes Hikaru's generation is outrageously good, they make the old Soviet players look slow and sluggish

That's also what makes them at the top. They can enter these state of groove more than other people and perform at high level. When they are hot they are hot. Like how stars in other sports, you see top tier nba players just starts to feel in and goes big time consecutively more than those normal nba palyers.

Yeah. I have gotten up to nearly 2100 before on a really good day, but on a normal day I'm about 1800-1900

Who knows

Like messi's goal against Bayern 2015. People didn't suddenly accuse him of using drugs just because he scored that goal, did they? @@marksun4292

He's also basically only playing IM's and FM's during the streak

This is the correct answer, it's a probability question. Sure, a specific streak like this is a huge outlier, but when you play tens of thousands of games like Hikaru, it's much more probable.

my best streak is 13 wins in a row, lost that rating shortly after lol…as you say statistical outliers are to be expected and Hikaru having outstanding performances being historically one of the best at blitz is not strange at all

@@3rdEarlRussell yes and those 10-15 win streaks, which are definitely achievable by regular players, happen against opponents of roughly the same rating, imagine you were constantly playing people 300 points below you (like Hikaru), those streaks would be much longer. I once won 42 bullet games in a row against my brother, who was significantly lower rated than me. Kramnik doesn't have any understanding of statistics.

@@aftermath4096 tbf he is not 3300, his skills are 3400+, like Magnus, but it's an unsustainable raiting due to the lack of player above 3000 and because of the fact tha any GM can be very annoying and play for a draw to suck his rating

I have won more than 50 games on a trot. It just depends on matchmaking. I hav also lost many consecutive games. My total win% is around 60%

Unless you are a cheater, then its not an accomplishment but youre just getting exposed you midwit, go watch another thousand hours of crybaby hikky streams

Seriously. Who would throw in a draw?? "They wont get suspicious if i make one draw after 45 wins..." hahahahah

Magnus can also be drunk as hell :))

Kramnik has just lost his marbles mate. That's all it is.

​@@jasonmdt watch before talk. He almost lost many games and got his way through flagging. Or tricking his opponents to blunder. Just salty ppl who can't become good so they mad or just some internet troll to get some likes.

@@jasonmdt dude at least pull up a random game and just look at it to know he's not cheating. Another youtuber already pulled up a random game and Hikaru played so poorly and only won because his opponent played extra extra poorly. the draw was located somewhere in the middle, not after 45 games. it's a super weird place to pick a draw if he was going for some consecutive wins run. i mean, at least take a look before posting a comment. when it comes to cheating scandals, you don't want to be a student of kramnik at this point who reads the title of a book and submits his paper 😉

Ooohhhh sneaky russians 😮

Had the same tought.

Yeah, it's looking certain that the winner of the candidates is gonna be American, be it Fabi or Naka.

Hikaru will beat him

Magnus said that about Hikaru?

Source please

Magnus never said that, in fact Magnus spanked Hikky about 25 times in a row before hikky finally won one, AND Magnus plays the most garbage openings imaginable just because h wants to have some fun

@@user-ez7ls2du9c What? He did say that after BCC & Magnus literally lost lmao

Kramnik is an old degenerate

" what an embarrasing display of poor sportsmanship from those accusing him" Magnus and Hikaru hiding their face somewhere after reading this.

​@@masoodjalal1152how dare they accuse an admitted and proven cheater of cheating. Blasphemy

​@@1234444rbiYeah. Though I'd be interested in someone doing an evaluation about the level Hikaru played there and if he had other streaks with comparably good gameplay (like accuracy). Although it's of course way easier to have better accuracy if you're opponents play badly. So due to nervousness or being triggered, you probably can't tell anything from that data :/

@@HiFisch94the accuracy was there I think, it was around 90+, not 99.

@@1234444rbifreedom of speech

@@HiFisch94 there was one game where Hikaru was dead lost, mate in 3 or something and he miraculously end s up winning. His accuracy in that game was 63%. Kramkik is just embarrassing himself at this point

@@Funnygooner10 He obviously turned off his cheats for that game to lower suspicion.

A streak is called a streak because it ends somewhere. He took the latest streak and made his analysis based on that. IDK what are your expectations here? You wanted Kramnik to mention every single game?

@@masoodjalal1152 you have to look at an entire population, not a cherrypicked subset, to draw an inference about said population. By your logic if I flip a coin 100,000 times you’d accuse me of cheating because somewhere within that population I had a crazy streak that in isolation has an extremely low probability of occurring 🤦‍♂️

Is that even possible to cheat in bullet or blitz against top player? 😂

@@anakkecil-bq9vuimagine the frequency of the bead

exactly

​​@@anakkecil-bq9vuyeah. People were caught red handed doing it successfully. But dont think Hikaru cheats. There is just not really an incentive for him to cheat.

@@kunalsingh4418 It would be so hard. He streams for hours. Imagine being the person feeding him engine moves all that time. Highly unlikely.

I've seen him wax people on ICC. That was forever ago

There are programs that show you the moves through an overlay that won't show up even if you stream the browser since it's a different program that overlays the screen, so if you stream the browser it won't show the overlay. I don't think Hikaru is cheating btw

@@VaoDxArchAngelseems like you have experience the way you’re spamming that.

​@@VaoDxArchAngeleven if that is true with the overlay. How on earth is he managing to explain us his thought process and how does he play so bad (I think I saw 1 game with 65% accuracy). If there is evidence (statistical) that supports the accusation then onlinechess is dead. If Hikaru is "cheating" then there will be statistical evidence that everybody is cheating online.

@@Monika77ful Like I said I don't think he's cheating, I'm just saying it's possible

I wouldn't call it computer skills as he really is such a Boomer, but he's a great online player😂

Agree, you can look at the individual games and see that they stack up.

Thousands of hours? Do you have a job?

self employed, work from home@@BaadMotorFinger

@@BaadMotorFingeryou care? 😂

@@armandsusen6277 another no lifer joins the chat..

@@BaadMotorFinger I take that as a “yes”

Robson is the best at puzzle rush

You don't even have to think about it very much. This is clearly a badly constructed accusation.

Let's also remember that hot streak was against only 4 players. Who were probably dehabilitated psychologically by him when in an L steak

​@@MC-ep8cuyeah, quite possibly tilted

To think Hikaru can even attempt to cheat in online Blitz is just words of a silly man.

@@BongelaMnguni Think it's silly? I would say that about any GM. But here we are. A player whoops Magnus OTB, and is a 100% cheater though. Coming up with the most bizarre reason.

⁠@@ItIsYouAreNotYourto be fair, otb classical is MUCH different than online blitz. If you’ve ever watched Hikaru play blitz, he pulls so many losing positions out of the gutter by putting time pressure on his opponent. As an example, magnus’s worst classical loss in the last 20 years came this year against someone rated like 2550 or so? And he loses to people 2400-2500 pretty often in titled tuesdays. It’s not even the same game

Let's remove the name and ask a more general question: why would an abstract GM cheat in TT? For money. Why would he also cheat out of TT? For practice. In short, if you have a setup that gives you tips from engine through your headphones, you need to sometimes practice playing with this setup, so that in decisive moment you can enable it and it works smoothly. I'm not accusing Hikaru, neither does Kramnik. Kramnik just found a statistical anomaly while processing the data, and shared it. This statistical anomaly should be explained. Something like "IM players are intimidated by Hikaru and loose" is one possible explanation. But this explanation can be statistically checked too.

​​@@sergeysmyshlyaev9716It is already explained. 'IM players are significantly worse than Hikaru'. Having an unbeaten streak of 46 against players 300-400 elo below you is not a 'statistical anomaly'.

Seriously? Wow...

Just by instinct, he can instantly play lines I can only dream of

Another thing to keep in mind too is how Hikaru grew up. He had the unique experience from a very young age playing week after week in new york at the new york masters playing very strong IMs and GMs at the time in rapid and blitz A LOT. That is really the basis of his strength is likely from that time and why he's so consistent. He ingrained all those really strong patterns from an incredibly early age and faced that over and over relentlessly. It also explains a bit why he's not always been at Magnus or Fabiano level because you can develop some bad habits playing that way all the time.

He might also be a bit autistic as well, repeating many times the same things@@ChessDiagnostic

In a 2 second him can will 1000s

Yeah right if he can multitask to that level at that speed it's almost more impressive lol. That's why it seems unlikely to me

Apes together strong?

@@MC-ep8cu Somehow you just made an argument for him cheating without realizing it. If he can multitask at that level, it just proves that he can also multi task a cheat along with it.

"then I’m a monkeys uncle." Looks like you are already.

@@masoodjalal1152 I never argue with relatives online. Especially nephews.

Mathematics is the proof. I am not fan of VK or Hikaru. One is World Champ, second is very good player. BUT!! Not at level 4200 Performance. Is non existant for any human. It mean easy win over stockfish for example 10/10, which is the opposite is the truth.

Your statement makes it ckear you are ignorant in the areas of mathematics and chess ratings.

​@@drakestorm46911. The proof is statistics and 46 games is not a large enough sample size in this case to draw a conclusion. In a 1000-game sample, he would take losses. 2. He didn't perform at a 4200 level

@@ccjl9160 yes, he played at 3600 then his play dropped, that is why his rating fell under 3300

Yup, brainless Hikaru fanboys would do exactly the same. Hikaru can never cheat, you 100% sure? Turns out Kramnik didnt name anyone and Hikaru was the one to point out it was him. If Hikaru had shut up, i wouldnt have figured who Kramnik was talking about. But looks like Hikaru's ego couldnt take it.

Thanks for sharing the data!

Hikaru reacted to a video from Fabi the other day and he was basically saying that due to how good top players are at the game they could cheat on a handful of moves maybe even 1 and win the game every time. Fabis' stance was the only way to detect this would be to look at the outcome of the games because cheating on 1 or 2 moves would not influence accuracy in a meaningful way.

Goat at blitz ? He hasn't even won a single championship!

@@kingmystery2136 Dude whatever even Magnus says he’s the online top of the food chain. Blitz live is kind of stupid.

@@mikecantreed Online and over the board aren't the same. Anyways, regarding online chess you could say he is but for me it's magnus. However, over the board chess he, clearly, isn't.

@@mikecantreed Magnus said that only pertaining to bullet though.

@@kingmystery2136I know right. Besides the five otb Speed Chess Championships that he has won, what has Hikaru done? Nothing. Such a loser.

Wow cool, so cheaters are the most accomplished and respected chess player in the world according to your "logic"

@@user-ez7ls2du9c according to your "logic" you think Hikaru is a cheater - prove it or shut the front door ;)

And without the heat of the moment lol he's a complete douche (though I don't think he necessarily cheated either).

Its a certainty that your IQ is no more than 2 digits lmao

Kramnik has been on that Fischer road a while now. Fortunately, he's only ambling down it slowly so far...

The new argument going around is that the only way to detect cheaters is to look at their record. Hikaru reacted to a video about it the other day from Caruana. The TLDR being that cheating on 1 move would be enough to make a game you are even on a win at the top level, and they are good enough to know which move they would need help on, and that would not show up noticeably in accuracy checks.

Lol what reason did Magnus have

@@MikeKing001 Thanks for this info. But it seems like the scenario you're describing is one where detecting cheating is possible by identifying move quality on "critical moves" and comparing it to some baseline expectation. That seems to be different from looking at their record.

@DaggerMan11 Any move in chess can be a critical move. Top level players find the best move all the time.

@@MikeKing001 But if top players find the best move all the time, how can a player's record be the basis of cheating accusations? Wouldn't it be reasonable to surmise Hikaru is winning all the time because he's finding the top moves all the time? If it were the case that Hikaru is cheating now but hasn't always been cheating, there should be observable differences between the former set of games and the latter set i.e., oversights in critical moments that exist in his older games but no longer exist.

no fire witout smok

actually headphones are about the only way in which cheating blitz is feasible.

@@carlkligerman1981 lmao

Who's to say the person shown in the webcams is even the one playing?

@@jiaan100 Terrible argument. Naka could have a metal device in his ear, he could have some sensory device behind the computer. You need to trust the player at some point lol

@@vercot7000 I think you misunderstood me and we actually agree

I don’t think Hikaru is cheating, however online gaming is rife RIFE with examples of cheating while streaming, and it would not be particularly difficult to cheat while streaming chess. I disagree with the argument that streaming while “getting achievements” guarantees those achievements as legit, especially in chess.

@@Chris.4345 Reasonable point to bring up, but chess is nothing like CS or something, he sits there and gives his thought process for every move

@@timcannon5384 notihig easier then cheating in chess while streaming.

There's nothing stopping him from cheating while streaming.

Why would he cheated against fm and im. Hes a super gm, ive seen alot of gm playing simul blindfoldedly against bunch of master and win without effort

If you a see a statistical anomaly, why won't you share it? He was not accusing Hikaru directly.

@@sergeysmyshlyaev9716 Apparently he has doubled down now. Kramnik has lost the plot. Also, he doesn't know how statistics really work, his analysis is wrong.

@@Axiomatic75 did he actually post the calculation so I could check them?

@@sergeysmyshlyaev9716 I don't think he did

Good points.

Not that I believe Hikaru is cheating, but he explains his moves on a very surface level that even a 1500 can usually understand, he doesn't go very deep into nuances or long calculation. Which is to be expected, it's difficult to do that.

i was going to say this. he explains his moves. a cheater would be clueless as to why

​@@SoupSailorhow the hell is he going to go in depth with commentary in blitz.

​@@SoupSailor I'm 2400 and his commentary is good. Sometimes it goes a bit quick but most of the time I can follow along with the calculations in real time. It's still obvious to me that he's leagues stronger. To a 1500 it may seem quick or underexplained. That's because after you play for years, you build your chess common sense to the point where things that seem complicated to weaker players are taken for granted and not even calculated anymore. I notice this difference even when playing people 200 points lower than me and hikaru is almost 1k higher than that. The skill gap is much larger than you think.

yes, you would at least have to take the whole year of his games

"Kramnik takes the best winning streak of Hikaru’s 30 years career." Correction: Kramnik takes the latest streak of Hikaru and immediately reports his suspicion. You report what happens right now, instead of going over something that happened in the past. He saw something happen and responded at the same time and you are upset about it and making a weird case with no legs to stand on. It was hikarus best streak, but it was also his latest.

@@masoodjalal1152 Regardless it doesn't mean anything. Taking a simple elo-based prediction doesn't account for naka flagging people, or mouse speed, etc...

He is wearing headphones while doing this, right? Maybe we could ask Hikaru for a couple of no headphones streams and compare the results?

Its very easy to cheat in chess and being a well known GM just makes it easier, im sorry that your IQ is so low that you cant fathom that, but it really is like that. None of the reasons you gave on why he couldnt be cheating make any sense outside of your fantasy world... Lets try and stick to logic and facts next time instead of whatever this crap is lmao

He literally sometimes goes through lines just in commentary faster than the people with engines can evaluate on livestream for tournaments. Saw Qd3 immediately in Ding's win against Nepo while Fabi and the rest were trying to look at inferior lines

Aman's a character. I've seen him draw against cheaters, and make no mistake: these GM's are good enough to even draw and sometimes win against cheaters. Their chess game is incredible as a rule.

Hikaru is playing better now than he's ever played in his life by far. He may be the person to overtake Magnus in rating.

Ian is literally backing up Hikaru he is not accusing him read what he wrote carefully

"Hikaru isn't cheating, he's clearly insanely good" Nieman is no cheating, he's clearly insanely good. Its a shame to see Magnus accusing Hans after losing a game. Funny how people knew Hans was cheating because Hikaru said so, and suddenly the same people know Hikaru is not cheating because he said so. Double Standards/Hypocirsy whatever you call it, is clearly at display in the comments.

@@masoodjalal1152 I would agree with you, I think the chess world is on edge now that engines are clearly so good and so easily accessed. The most likely scenario is of course that neither Hikaru nor Hans were cheating when accused. Hans, however, did have a history of cheating online so it's a bit more founded, but I still agree with you, he shouldn't have been accused without proof.

Half the time he's singing what he's listening to. And it's terrible, lol