Hikaru is definitely cheating. He said he was starting a diet and I saw him eating cookies. That’s the only cheating he can be accused of

@meghadobriyal4051

6 ай бұрын

I read the first line and I thought you were a hater😂

@nichgnoynat

6 ай бұрын

You got me in the first half not gonna lie

@balemythology8077

6 ай бұрын

Lmao 😂

@randomuser17184

6 ай бұрын

😂😂

@anakkecil-bq9vu

6 ай бұрын

I don't think hes the only one cheating

I love the fact that hikaru himself is giving this about 1,000x more publicity than it would’ve received. The man knows the algorithm.

@aluminiumknight4038

6 ай бұрын

Why not use them as clowns to make more content 😂

@MC_Grenada

6 ай бұрын

Bro saw an easy check and took it, gotta respect the content grind

@viscuz3730

6 ай бұрын

Streamer doing streamer thing UwU

@GrandDad_001

6 ай бұрын

You guys know nothing... He has tipped Kramnik to do that 😂😂

@maxl5423

6 ай бұрын

Nah he’s defending himself how could a GM and former world champion do this to him it’s disgraceful , I would be mad too

I wish Kramnik a speedy recovery, I don't wish this level of delusion on my worst enemy

@gleameyes02

6 ай бұрын

He's just a paranoid

@cancelculture9953

6 ай бұрын

I wonder if it’s jealousy? It does suck that a Super GM has found a way to make a living off of streaming which has in turn seemingly elevated his play cause he no longer has the financial burden weighing on him to win.

@Ben-hl2vv

6 ай бұрын

Bro's gone Fischer.

@armingleiner5292

6 ай бұрын

He is gonna end up like Bobby Fischer.

@ninjaong87

6 ай бұрын

Giving Fisher vibes.. 😢

Eric: reacts Hikaru: reacts to Eric’s reaction Eric: reacts to Hikaru’s reaction to Eric’s reaction Hikaru:

@darkspider50

6 ай бұрын

Surprise Pikachu face.jpg

@ZeCroiSSanT950

6 ай бұрын

At this point they might as well host a joint streaming session. XD

@jaekn

6 ай бұрын

Can't they just have a conversation already?

@jriley-tv1on

6 ай бұрын

These streamers know what to jump on.

@Gaspa79

6 ай бұрын

Did eric react to this already? Lol I would like to see it

If he's cheating, he's the fastest cheater of all time.

@seinundzeiten

6 ай бұрын

if you could do it, everyone would be doing- only 3 or 4 players play as fast as Hikaru

@maluco3026

6 ай бұрын

Everyone knows Hikaru has the ability to install vibrating stockfishs in any ceiling

@ChillBill1

6 ай бұрын

The amazing time scrambles prove Hiraku is a genius not a cheater.

@NikoBased

6 ай бұрын

The way your average online player cheats, is not the same way a GM would cheat. The average cheater online is asking the engine to tell them what square to move what piece. This is incredibly slow, and easy to catch. All a GM needs is an indication in critical positions that the position is good, or to keep it consistent throughout the game, also indicating on equal positions to draw. This would cut down the time dramatically. I'm not an expert in Chess cheating, but I would imagine a separate computer used solely for processing positions from older Chess engines could do this in under 3 seconds. Do I think Hikaru is doing this? No. Why? Because I give everybody the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise. Coincidences are not proof. If correlation was causation, every conspiracy theory would be true. The 45.5/46 farming lower rated players is not even interesting let alone proof.

@bunhead8

6 ай бұрын

yes, and he did it while eating noodles and listening to music!

You know things are bad when Eric defends Hikaru

@El_IF_B_2

6 ай бұрын

Fr

@larryjohnson3087

Ай бұрын

The greatest underground chess fight of all time.

The fact Hikaru called out Danya as one of three people who could have possibly fit that description is such a massive shout out from him. That just stood out to me as a really awesome shout out to hear.

@movdqa

6 ай бұрын

Hikaru has been a Danya fan for at least several years.

@wesleyb1458

6 ай бұрын

Yeah he’s spoken like that about Danya for a while online. He has higher expectations of Daniel than Daniel does. Definitely big respect

@jootpepet

6 ай бұрын

Lol where have u been bro they've always been shouting out danya when it comes to speed chess.. even magnus mentions him quite frequently

@ericpetersen8155

6 ай бұрын

Danial is brilliant

@SeddincY

6 ай бұрын

I believe Hikaru also mentioned that if it's 1+0, danya is on par with magnus and hikaru. Now thats big

Eric at 1.5x sounds like a normal person.

@haggaisimon7748

6 ай бұрын

I would do 2.

@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836

6 ай бұрын

Canadians are a little slow.

@dox.K

6 ай бұрын

@@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 xqc omegalul

@dreytukaji7871

6 ай бұрын

*plays this vid at 2x playback speed*

@mond256

6 ай бұрын

​@@dox.Kxqc isn't canadian, he's 100% pure juicer

Hikaru puting Eric on 1.5 speed is a subtle roast

@hugovaz777

6 ай бұрын

Not really, go watch him play bullet...

I believe Hikaru is at the peak of his chess career. He looks so happy and is living his life. I think that's one of the reasons why Hikaru has been playing the best chess recently. And we are very proud and happy for him. But these accusations are just ridiculous.

@ultrafly100

6 ай бұрын

I feel like Hikaru has at least one solid growth run in him before hitting his true peak.

@esddzul9135

6 ай бұрын

@@ultrafly100I think so too but since he decided to focus more on streaming instead of fully committing to chess it is more likely that he has reached his peak.

@UndisputedONE2

6 ай бұрын

considering he is an official candidate one of eight possible players to challenge DING id say he has good chances since Magnus aint competing. He claps easily everyone in Blitz and if he can find that switch in Rapid as well, maybe he can overcome his fears and ´make a run for classical as well?

@cwmoo

6 ай бұрын

I grew up admiring Hikaru and have followed his games since I was a kid, way before his streamer career blew up. Hikaru 10 years ago was mostly godlike, but sometimes irrational and inconsistent. Hikaru today is just a winning machine in blitz. He's relentless and fearless and brutal and beats people down and crushes their soul. Hikaru says he was better 10 years ago but I don't think so, he is harder to play against now because now he gives no fucks. That's also his last weak spot against Magnus - Magnus is the only person he is actually afraid of, and it comes out in his play.

@cutieisabella3443

6 ай бұрын

@@cwmooand i do like the fact that Hikaru RESPECTS Magnus a lot … They both respect each other 💛❤

Someone has to tell Kramnik "just because you couldn't do it, doesn't mean he's cheating".

@blantant

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, but his academically rigorous napkin maths ?! He calculated some percents 😂

@eyeofhorus1301

Ай бұрын

Ur disrespectin' his authoritahh!

You know you're damn good at what you do when people make unfounded cheating accusations against you, props hikaru

@Idiomatick

6 ай бұрын

I got banned for aimbotting once and took at as an absolute badge of honour. I was on fire that day, went like 33-1

@eagle-eye29

6 ай бұрын

So, Hans is damn good. He’ll be happy you said so 👌

@infinitea6179

6 ай бұрын

@@eagle-eye29 yeah hans is pretty good man

@derbarenschander7737

6 ай бұрын

​@@eagle-eye29yeah, Hans's engine is really really good

@StarForgedTCG

6 ай бұрын

so hans must be a top 5 player then

Hikaru even blitzing his reaction to Eric Hansen.

Kramnik has officially lost it

Kramnik is actually going Insane.

@jacobmccain8082

6 ай бұрын

next stop: interdimensional vampires 😂

@kyleO1

6 ай бұрын

He is entering his bobby fisher stage 😂

@1stlullaby484

6 ай бұрын

​@@jacobmccain8082the heck😂😂😂😂

@TrulydaMoosey

Ай бұрын

​@@kyleO1Bobby didn't do anything to deserve such an insult 😂

In Levon Aronians words: “All my colleagues are paranoid ” *He then proceeds to stretch his back 30 times. 😅

Hikaru chats like a boss on a rampage while he's playing. There's no way he'd be able to concentrate on chess, respond to chat on subjects they bring up AND RECEIVE INPUT ON MOVES from an external source all at once. Saying Hikaru cheats doesn't pass the giggle test, let alone the smell test.

@dungeoner2356

6 ай бұрын

dont forget he also stares at the ceiling anytime he actually needs to think. Does Kramnik actually believe the ceiling monitor theory??????

@bonkyabeans

2 ай бұрын

And if he could then he could definitely also do that to 2900's. The dude would be even more of a monster hahaha. Not bc he's cheating but bc he's capable of doing superman multitasking so he could probably excel at chess

The gold moment in this video was Hikaru stating that Kramick doesn't have a brain anymore.

@ultimatequizmaster

6 ай бұрын

I mean.. it's facts

@LegendLungs

6 ай бұрын

@@ultimatequizmaster very true

Hikaru couldn’t think as slow as kramnik

@badmind8957

6 ай бұрын

He is former world chess champion but aight

@relur

2 ай бұрын

@@badmind8957 who cares hes washed af

Has Kramnik ever even seen Hikaru do puzzle rush? 🤭

@glowingfish

6 ай бұрын

Or for that matter, play Minesweeper?

@megamind8027

6 ай бұрын

He probably cheats there as well 😁

@tomsmith4542

6 ай бұрын

Kramnik does Puzzle Rush, but with photos of those killed by Putin in the last years !!

@arnie9482

6 ай бұрын

😂😂

@johnbowman3630

6 ай бұрын

He has. He said it looked very interesting.

I died laughing when that "YAAAAAY" soundbite you play after someone subs happened right after eric said hikaru was accused of cheating.

I think it is very interesting, that Kramnik went to the bathroom all the time in his world championship matches. I wished Hikaru could make a video about this very interesting topic which might find a lot of people also very interesting

@MorningNapalm

6 ай бұрын

In Danish we say: thief thinks that everyone steals.

@redeyexxx1841

6 ай бұрын

Well atleast he could qualify from candidates and dethrone legendary Kasporov and defend 2-3 more times. Hikaru couldn't even reach past candidates even after Magnus quit 😂

Fischer lost his mind before, and now Kramnik lost it completely. It seems like a mintal disorder happens to world champions, and I started to worry about Magnus😅

@MorningNapalm

6 ай бұрын

Magnus is just bored and frustrated, not insane.

@haggaisimon7748

6 ай бұрын

That’s why Magnus quit! He’s quite smart.

@willmcgill550

6 ай бұрын

Kasparov is a conspiracy theorist who believes in a massive alternate history conspiracy where ancient greece happened in the middle ages and Morphy was also known to have lost his mind and thought all his family members were trying to poison him.

@darylbrown6739

6 ай бұрын

Fischer didn't lose anything he started speaking his truth and got cancelled before it was a thing.

@GTari-ob6bj

2 ай бұрын

Bobby saw the ugly bitter truth and the good ol' elite labeled him crazy to push people away from him. he knows 'his people' to a T let's just say that..

Hikaru literally doesn’t care about the allegations

@cryterion7770

6 ай бұрын

This is just content at this point lol for him

@tmpace9

6 ай бұрын

Add it to the list of things Hikaru literally doesn't care about

@Rodisflawless

6 ай бұрын

That's why he made a video to discuss it at length, right? Doesn't care at all.

@just4fun607

6 ай бұрын

Just hikaru juicing out the contents

@amadeux5471

6 ай бұрын

@@Rodisflawless my mans never heard of memes before

Hikaru thought he would be exposed for cheating, he got exposed for being a hot asian girl trending on twitter.

I'm an avid chess player, in my fifties now. I grew up watching Karpov vs Kasparov, and Hikaru and all the other players since. Hikaru was just one of those players. Now I'm so grateful that Hikaru started streaming, I weirdly feel a connection with Hikaru. Hikaru lays it all out, and brings a really interesting insight on the world of chess.

@clamthethrone

6 ай бұрын

Key word: interesting 🤔

@GIGADEV690

6 ай бұрын

Para social relationship 😂 hikaru doesn't give two f about you your just number to him.

@ryannorris6128

6 ай бұрын

wtf???

@paulharris2331

6 ай бұрын

GIGADEV690 Finally, someone else understands this.

@paulharris2331

6 ай бұрын

@GIGADEV690

Hikaru isn't cheating because the dude literally voices his entire game plan that he's thinking about

The fact that he is streaming isn't mentioned, but it's simply a fact that he thinks often outloud, draws arrows, premoves, etc makes even the most sophisticated cheating implausible. He literally has a camera and microphone surveillance on himself. I find this accusation laughable. I think it's a few chess insiders only who wanted to bring this to the behind the scenes griping and venting to the surface perhaps to generate discussion, make drama or whatever. Likely there is some agenda underlying this. The whole community isn't buying this nonsense. Not to mention we've seen the way he strategically uses the clock, and salvages hopeless positions. That's psychology and it happens as light speed. Even an engine cannot finesse its way through that. In fact the engine likely would lose those hopeless positions as best moves aren't the trickiest moves to keep your opponent wasting time. Also the only conceivable way to cheat with kernel drivers running a chess engine and using screen overlays direct on the graphics buffer to bypass browser detection or screen capturing, is a sophisticated project only a senior engineer with a lot of experience and time could pull off. And it would need to be updated with every Windows version and could break on driver updates. Not to mention you could keep the developers from talking about it. So I discount this as pretty much totally absurd as well. Technologically possible but extraordinarily impractical.

@dessertstorm7476

6 ай бұрын

while a front facing camera does not prove very much, it is still more proof than anyone else in the tournament offers.

It is INSANE to believe that someone who livestreams his games and explains the thinking behind his moves as he goes is cheating. His accusers have to be ignoramuses. I'm 100% behind Hikaru.

@Flyhr

6 ай бұрын

It's envy.

@RazielDeTam

6 ай бұрын

Cheating online/on stream is easy, but! Hikaru showed OTB his strength so much times, only Magnus can say he is stronger. Why he can't farm 'low' rated players? I don't understand Kramnik's arguments

@godfreyofbouillon966

6 ай бұрын

@@RazielDeTam tbh I dont think Kramnik understands Kraminks arguments

Currently, Hikaru's average accuracy is 87.8 but in the last 7 days from now his average accuracy was 86.3... Lower than his average, his opponents just played a little worse and he got a streak, I doubt he was cheating.

Hikaru's not cheating, period.

@Deerjason

6 ай бұрын

Hikaru is clearly an alien who has installed stockfish into his brain that only activates when looking at the ceiling. That is cheating.

@r00kiet80

6 ай бұрын

Shhh let the man milk this more

@Kitiariya

6 ай бұрын

Just imagine he got a monitor on the ceiling all along 😂😂😂

@freeEnd_

6 ай бұрын

​@@Kitiariyain the tournaments aswell

@albeback5234

6 ай бұрын

periods are one of 15638943 excuses women make as the last attempt to avoid unavoidable 👉👌

He cut off precisely where Eric was about to talk about how Hikaru was actually the most original "everyone's cheating against me" dude lmao. Wonder how Hikaru would've attempted to defend that

I think Kramnik's biggest mistake is not actually watching some of Hikaru's streaks and just referring to stats. If you've been watching his stream long enough, you see how real the Hikaru/Magnus effect is on opponents.

@tongobong1

5 ай бұрын

Kramnik is one of the last players that didn't cheat. Today most if not all of the top 10 players cheat.

@nocbvideos6458

4 ай бұрын

@@tongobong1 proof?

@tongobong1

4 ай бұрын

@@nocbvideos6458 the proof is the treatment of Hans Niemann by Magnus. Magnus accused Hans of cheating and he was right but how did Magnus know that Hans is cheating? He knew it because he is also cheating the same way.

@nocbvideos6458

4 ай бұрын

@@tongobong1 uhm proof?

@tariqulislamakash5749

4 ай бұрын

@@tongobong1 You love the sound of your own voice huh. You are not that bright

It's really funny seeing Hikki being defended by Eric. Two of my favorite GMs of all time. It is always fun watching them compete against each other, but this video and Eric's video were a change of pace.

Because Hikaru is usually so casual and outspoken in the public people don't realize how monstrous he is at chess. Magnus is more of a mythical creature for average chess player because of his aura. But Hikaru just as much as a monster as Magnus, we just take it for granted.

Keep doing what you're doing Hikaru. Now my money's on you for the Candidates!

@user-iw2cl4ug7z

6 ай бұрын

Where can we bet for chess?

@francescosi7556

6 ай бұрын

Where did you bet?

@patrickcummings6831

6 ай бұрын

It's an expression

@Aditya-hh5gz

Ай бұрын

How much did you lose

Eric called you the goat. He clearly has a lot of respect for you. Show the man some love! ❤

@murodjon256

6 ай бұрын

They've been friends for like 15 years

Statistically, there is no difference whether we pick 46 consecutive games or we pick every other game or every p-th game, where p is a prime. So the easiest way to "prove" someone is cheating is simply pick all games they won and say that their win rate is 100%. Kramnik needs to justify why he specifically chose those 46 games.

i love your videos and this one is surprisingly one of my favorite. keep rockin!!!!

So beautiful to see Eric supporting Hikaru after the front lawn incident

@yeetyeetyeet1967

Ай бұрын

Why would he still be mad? He won the fight

@youtubeaddict487

Ай бұрын

ty lol. only comment acknowledging these 2 fist fight

Playing online is always different than OTB. It's definitely more comfortable at home, in your own chair, and set up. OTB chess is always a little more nerve wracking and you do move slower when having to reach for the pieces.

@StrAniG09

6 ай бұрын

yeah and you can also draw arrows like Hikaru does they help at thinking faster i think, also the 2D perspective is easier to overlook than OTB

@faznaz7455

6 ай бұрын

Also there’s premoves and flagging in equal positions which also have to be taken into account.

@orshabaal8990

6 ай бұрын

@@faznaz7455 ​ @StrAniG09 yep both of you bring good points. The different perspective is huge, and hikaru is THE premover.

Ben Shapiro: Play at .5x to sound normal. Eric Hansen: Play at 1.5x to sound normal.

@freeEnd_

6 ай бұрын

Xqc: play at 0.25x still dont understand shit

Even the actual cheaters got confused on this one.

Hikaru should just interpret this situation as nothing but a massive compliment from one of the great chess legends. Kramnik is essentially saying that Hikaru is so good that it is quite literally hard to believe it.

@ishitvvats2044

5 ай бұрын

when your career is at stake??

@ishitvvats2044

5 ай бұрын

its fine to be mad at him.

@jackbicknell4711

5 ай бұрын

@@ishitvvats2044 His career isn't at stake, he's done nothing wrong

@jackbicknell4711

5 ай бұрын

@@ishitvvats2044 no point that's all

Hikaru should challenge Kramnik to an over the board high security blitz tourney. I’ll bet Hikaru would beat him 46 times in a row

@ultrafly100

6 ай бұрын

That would be hilarious lol

@UndisputedONE2

6 ай бұрын

@@ultrafly100 Kramniks ego wouldnt allow him after all that getting obliterated by Hikaru. He looses his mind all the time when getting flagged OTB and Online. - Kramnik would be a patient in an asylum after that match lol

@voca6175

6 ай бұрын

Play naked and isolated, thats the way

@DomenG33K

6 ай бұрын

I dont think hikaru could win more than 5 times in a row. But maybe...

@LoganNagol

6 ай бұрын

I mean Hikaru would beat him but no where close to 46 times lmao. Kramnik is still the 26th ranked Blitz player lol he not some scrub

"he doesn't have a brain, he lost it" ~Nakaru Hikamura

the rating system itself can't even be used as a marker for blitz chess because the rating applies to so many different time controls... hikaru could be 300 points over someone on increment and 400 points over the same person without increment you wouldnt be able to disguinsh based on a combined rating if one players plays mainly one over the other

@nassimbenhenni6746

6 ай бұрын

Nonetheless, being so good at chess to the point a GM thinks you're cheating is the ultimate flex.

@William-Morey-Baker

6 ай бұрын

a couple "friends" from work are like 1200 on blitz but probably like 800 or less over the board... most of the online blitz in the lower elo is just anxiety control, being calm or just not really worried in general. the same thing applies to the higher elos as well, some really good players kinda suck at blitz because its just nerve wracking... whereas some people just literally dont care... like Hikaru... he is an expert at not caring

@evolution5899

6 ай бұрын

former World champion lmao

@johnbowman3630

6 ай бұрын

@@nassimbenhenni6746Not just a GM, literal former World Champ

"He's been accused of cheating" " YYAAAAAAAAYYYYY"

I know Eric's and Hikaru's relationship is professional and not friendship, but hearing Eric talk at 1.5 speed and sound like a normal person is entertaining haha

Kramnik being a merchant banker, hikaru chasing that bank 🎉

For anyone wondering why the "Hikaru" trend is not related to GM Hikaru, the term 光(Hikaru) means light in Japanese, so it's a pretty common term used by many people in many aspects

@stanlyaateja7778

Ай бұрын

Isnt that "hikari" and not hikaru?

@user-ej7sr3ow8b

Ай бұрын

@@stanlyaateja7778 Oh, yes, Hikari means light, Hikaru means shining or glowing.

Hikaru dressed like an easytech at staples

i drank a litre of motor oil yesterday

@Jump-n-smash

Ай бұрын

Interesting

Maybe it’s just me, but I read that tweet like Nepo wasn’t agreeing with kramnik… seemed like he was saying kramnik is right to be concerned with cheating but this is not the battle to be fought (because he’s obviously wrong). And also meme-ing on kramnik by referring to him as some self proclaimed vigilante. I could be 100% wrong tho

Hikaru: It's still slow lets put it at 100x speed

Any doubts about Hikaru should be dispelled by seeing him do puzzle rush. That shit is straight up insane

Hikaru is melking his own drama. I love it! At least he produces some nice content after that ridiculous suspicions of that old delusional pal.

Kramnik: this cockroach, this SWINE, I will EXPOSE him for the CHEAT he is Eric and Hikaru: we could probably make a lot of YT coin off of this...

So chess grandmasters are essentially just gamers... "damn he shot me so quickly, I didn't even see him, cheater"

Hikaru hides all of his chess moves in his brain.

Hikaru living a double life as a jpop star 😮

Probability is an strange animal. Lets say the rating difference suggest H has a 90% chance at winning against a random player. Then the probability of H winning 44 in a row is less than 1 % But as soon as your not playing 44 random players but just a few you can throw that calculation out of the window. Different players have different playing style that can be a good or bad match. There may be a prehistory of intimidation and fear. So perhaps the chance of H winning may be 95 %. This subjective probability may come closer to the truth the the one derived from ELO diff. If this is the case then the probability of winning all games jumps to more then 10%. Lets assume that we have a tilt factor as well. So whe H has won three games in a row the probability goes up to 97%. Then we are not looking at a proposterous result anymore. People use statistics too casual sometimes.

@ET-yc4wb

6 ай бұрын

That's true. I can beat my friends who have are rated lower than me by like 300 elo in 30 consecutive games. But if I played 30 games against 30 random players rated 300 elo below me, I'd probably lose a couple.

@XCC23

6 ай бұрын

But also, let's say the rating difference suggests that H has a 90% chance of winning against a random player. You're right that the probability of winning 44 in a row is less than 1%. But if someone has played, say, one thousand games (and Hikaru has played easily that), the probability of such a streak appearing somewhere in one thousand games is 62%!

@johnbowman3630

6 ай бұрын

He literally just cherry-picked a small sample size to skew results, like an average idiot as opposed to a former world chess champ.

I love how Eric and Hikaru went from online beef to now he is defending him. Good sportsmanship.

“this is the last time I’m pausing the video…” 😂 much love Hikaru. good job confronting the nonsense

Hikaru definitely enjoyed the showering of praise 😂

Never accuse a GM the likes of Hikaru of cheating without actual proof. It’s in poor taste and we all know Hikaru doesn’t need to cheat. Hikaru is true elite class as a player and a person.

It’s funny how Eric on increased speed sounds the same as Hikaru

I remember on ICC Nakamora reached 3700 in blitz while the best computer at the time was rated 3300

@timwheeler8523

6 ай бұрын

Bend!

Another possibility is that the ratings aren't very accurate. I think in these cases, Hikaru also found some players who were a bit overrated online, and managed to farm them, also probably using the psychological advantage of being a GM. It might be a little unfair, but its not cheating. But maybe the rating system does need to be reformed a bit.

@pugsnhogz

6 ай бұрын

the rating system is fine. fluctuations are normal. it's accurate over the long run; there's not really any good way to avoid peaks and valleys (not to mention, what would be the point...)

@DomenG33K

6 ай бұрын

It wasnt even that special. There was like a 5% chance of hikaru pulling it off. So when you think in terms of 1000s of games he plays its like 50/50 something like this will happen.

If I learned that Hikaru does cheat, then I would have to question everything I ever thought I knew. Incredible players have incredible stats, and his brilliance, is proven over and again on stream at a pace that couldn't even allow for cheating.

0:40 "...That he's been accused of cheating" "Yayyyyy"

Getting used to time makes a huge difference. I play nothing but bullet and I can crush in bullet bc I’m used to the time where as in blitz or rapid people have more time and you lose a big advantage if you’re good at the laying fast.

Kramnik needs a friend. Maybe we could all pitch in and buy him a puppy.

Great to hear Hikaru praising Danya

Hikaru putting the video speed up😂😂

Ive been playing chess for 7 months now and i recently won a chess tournament in my School im so happy when i won since all my opponent is older than i am i learned alot from Hikaru's content and help me improve more in playing chess

The one thing I'm still trying to figure out is, how on earth did Eric not lose his place counting when he scrolled up??

@hashyyrz673

6 ай бұрын

Probably on accuracy and move count

@mofe620

6 ай бұрын

Or you just know the name of the opponent you counted last 🤷🏽‍♂️

@jfan3049

Ай бұрын

@@mofe620he only played like 3 different people during the 45.5 streak

I've heard Hikaru is the top player whom most gm's dislike so i believe this is why many said hes cheating cause they dont like him but deep in their souls they know how good he is at online chess but they wish he wasnt... and im not a fan of hikaru i will never think hes cheating he has good skills with the mouse way better than any other top gm, thats it.

@marchielli

6 ай бұрын

Hikaru is the annoying "mothers-best-friends-son" for most of them. Better at chess, better at life. People need to touch grass more often.

Frankly my first interpretation of Ian´s Tweet, "He is the hero gotham deserves, but not the one we need right now", was that he was refering to Kramnik, not Hikaru. I saw it as : Kramnik is what we need (or deserve) to fight cheating, but not what we need right now (because right now we dont need this sort of un-fundamented accusations against people like hikaru). But i could be wrong

@magjistariukaj6306

6 ай бұрын

Well thanks for explaning the obvious that anyone here understands besides Hikaru .

Hikaru has shown his skills time and time again. Bong cloud, the Botez gambit.....he shows he is not afraid, talented enough to sacrifice and still win just for the heck of it

Imagine being that good at chess that even top players think you’re cheating 😂😂🤣

The Russians are still pissed about 1972.

Nepo's tweet referencing the dark night is literally just him saying that Kramnig is "speaking facts!!" but that no one is ready to hear it yet.

I remember Hikaru in NYC and in NJ. Hikaru always clobbered everyone in blitz even in his youth.

When your such a monster at chess people think you be cheating 😅

Bro is so good at chess that the former world champion accused him of cheating.

Hikaru's rant on Kramnik's brain is so good

i really want standupmaths to review this whole debacle. What kramnik did (and what Eric did, essentially) is basically called a "sampling bias" which is covered by Matt Parker of standupmaths when Dream's minecraft speedrun drama happened. We have to look at hikaru's 51 thousand games (and maybe distill it down to only the game mode in question) and account for all of them, and calculate the possibility of him having a run of 45 wins among the thousands of games he's played. At that point we would have something that is statistically sound to put blame on, if there's any.

Hikaru doesnt need to do this. Hikaru's track record has been on live in front of everyone since basically what...like...'94? '95? Hikaru you are worth more than this.

@Frogesh

6 ай бұрын

he is doing it because he knows people love drama. he gets to make entertaining content with it while also showing how he isn't cheating. tbh i am quite entertained.

Eric is a Legend. He knows Hikaru is the Overlord.

Even hans is doing a face palm

To detect cheating requires more than just checking game results! Move accuracy and count of inaccuracies during time scrambles. Cheaters typically have a fixed time increment for their moves. There will be exceptions to this, as someone might not be referencing the engine moves directly, but just the scores at key times. nevertheless, one would expect particular gaps in move times if cheating.

When a former world champion thinks you’re cheating, that’s a massive compliment

this drama led me to the hansen/nakamura drama that happened a couple of years ago over alexandra botez, chessbae and the copyright strikes. from this video it seems like hansen and nakamura are on friendly enough terms, but i couldnt find much online about what ended up happening between them. can anyone who knows better explain what happened?

@dougdimmadome7529

6 ай бұрын

i thought that fight was unrelated, comments in that video are saying hikaru punched eric after the game but it didnt have to do with the other drama

It makes me smile seeing an absolutely phenomenal player like Hikaru give credit to Magnus saying sometimes he is too good to beat in tournaments

There should be an event where Hikaru speedruns FMs and IMs. Pay every one to show up and double the pay for beating Hikaru.

9:55 hikaru calls danya a GOD

Hikaru is top 2 GOATed for online speed chess, with a longevity case for #1.

me: looks up the fight hikaru and eric

It's so funny that Hikaru has the video is at 1.5 and Eric is basically speaking at normal pace 😂😂😂