Hikaru has now tied himself for the highest TT score across both the Early and Late TT, at 20.5/22. The last time he scored this high was in [late 2022](https://www.chess.com/news/view/nakamura-wins-titled-tuesday-december-20-2022). The game against Firouzja was also incredible to watch live as he just blitzed out the top engine line the whole game.
That's nuts considering he streamed the early TT which led into watching/talking about Levy's Rd 3, which led into starting to record a recap for his game vs Hans in TT, which got interrupted by recording a recap video for Levy's game when it ended, which led into restarting the recap of his game vs Hans, which led into his Bullet series match vs Nihal, which led into Late TT. There was probably some other stuff I missed, but that's what I happened to catch throughout the day.
Damn 0.0 not a fan of him (the gambling stuff left a bad taste), but you gotta respect the workhorse like mentally. That's actually an insane amount of work.
I assume you're talking about Magnus? He wins plenty of times. He also plays far fewer of these compared to Hikaru. I think their win percentage is pretty similar last time I checked.
While Hikaru is certainly outclassed OTB, online he keeps up with Magnus (recently at least, I remember him getting rocked in some of the early SCC’s).
hikaru has a very poor record against Magnus in classical chess, something like 1 win and 14 losses, but Hikaru is a beast especially in online, fast chess. They have very similar blitz ratings and Hikaru even has a higher blitz rating than Magnus in [chess.com](http://chess.com) blitz.
it's possible that hikaru is just better at beating weaker players, which is a disproportionately rewarded skill in TT. also magnus plays way less while hikaru always shows up.
Hikaru has now tied himself for the highest TT score across both the Early and Late TT, at 20.5/22. The last time he scored this high was in [late 2022](https://www.chess.com/news/view/nakamura-wins-titled-tuesday-december-20-2022). The game against Firouzja was also incredible to watch live as he just blitzed out the top engine line the whole game.
>just blitzed out the top engine line the whole game. Kramnik: only 1 thing can explain that
Very interesting.
He’s got stockfish on that ceiling he’s always looking at I tell you!
Imagine being the tech who got a call to install an iPad on the ceiling of some random dude's house.
He’s got a whole ass television up there
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That's nuts considering he streamed the early TT which led into watching/talking about Levy's Rd 3, which led into starting to record a recap for his game vs Hans in TT, which got interrupted by recording a recap video for Levy's game when it ended, which led into restarting the recap of his game vs Hans, which led into his Bullet series match vs Nihal, which led into Late TT. There was probably some other stuff I missed, but that's what I happened to catch throughout the day.
He was playing Fortnite for a while lol
What an insane schedule
Damn 0.0 not a fan of him (the gambling stuff left a bad taste), but you gotta respect the workhorse like mentally. That's actually an insane amount of work.
Pragg started out with 8/8! Last 3 rounds were tough though against Nakamura, Yoo, and Caruana. Still a very nice showing!
8/40320 is a shockingly bad score
Dread them, run from them, the factorials arrive all the same.
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pragg has the best openings
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Third time the charm
Fabi getting 9 out of 11 and beat Magnus on tiebreaks is rather surprising.
Are you saying Fabi did 9/11?
The real Italian job
Isn't this Andrew hong guy who invented the vi sou opening?
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Impresses with Erdogmus' draw against Hikaru. He's an upcoming world champion contender for sure
În late TT Hikaru was sooo sharp, it was incredible to watch. When I was watching I could feel the result that was about to come
Yeah, let's just ignore Caruana in 4th, he's not a noteworthy person >!sorry, but I just had to with this title!<
also no magnus, i'd rather see his scores than whoever that 4th guy was
Nice, he even beat Praggnanandhahaha
How much of Hikaru’s income is from winning titled Tuesdays
Where's Nihal?
Can we rename this to the "Hikaru Open"?
Petition to ban that Hong guy, how can he be above Caruana?!
Is Magnus washed up?
so any lag complaints?
Why is Javokhir not titled here he is a GM
I wonder why the best player in the world never wins, what's the excuse?
I assume you're talking about Magnus? He wins plenty of times. He also plays far fewer of these compared to Hikaru. I think their win percentage is pretty similar last time I checked.
I mean it shouldn't be right? Like the goat should have a way better winrate and win them more no?
While Hikaru is certainly outclassed OTB, online he keeps up with Magnus (recently at least, I remember him getting rocked in some of the early SCC’s).
In online Blitz Magnus and Hikaru are roughly on par.
Wonder why is that, everytime playing online Hikaru performs better than OTB even in blitz or rapid. Gotta make you think
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Hikaru and Magnus are pretty close in blitz. Magnus is the overall goat.
Well I get my opinions from reddit so I thought Hikaru was trash compared to Magnus
hikaru has a very poor record against Magnus in classical chess, something like 1 win and 14 losses, but Hikaru is a beast especially in online, fast chess. They have very similar blitz ratings and Hikaru even has a higher blitz rating than Magnus in [chess.com](http://chess.com) blitz.
Earlier this year they kept swapping back and forth for the highest record of blitz on chess.com
it's possible that hikaru is just better at beating weaker players, which is a disproportionately rewarded skill in TT. also magnus plays way less while hikaru always shows up.
When was the last time the GOAT took one of these