my game #4 against Hikaru Nakamura

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Yes I know, I am trying the impossible. Hopefully one day the chat will distract Hikaru enough to blunder and allow me to win.

Hikaru during his daily Twich sessions is now doing a TSM speed run using ScrubStomping username. As he is rated 2332 currently and I am around 2310, we got paired in the 1st round.

I am black and I thought I did ok in the opening a sicilian where I have the Black pieces.

but you guys are the judge:

Position 1 : 

I am playing a hedgehog type of position with bishops going to b7 and e7. Hikaru is also doing a fianchetto, playing b3 followed by Bb2.

Position 2: I am still in it to win it !

I am playing in the diagram d6-d5, the thematic breakthrough. I am also targetting Bxh2+ so Hikaru is playing f3-f4 but I will take his pawn.

Position 3: Tricky

Hikaru has two rooks but I have the queen. This is a tricky imbalance.

Position 4: Me missing a killer move after white's mistake. can you find it  ?

in the end Hikaru won on time.

Here's the full game :

Avatar of stormball9

cool

Avatar of stormball9

sad for you

Avatar of Bob_Jr3

What exactly is he doing the speed run for? Is there a theme (ex. Garbage openings)?

Avatar of tactics8805

Idk. I think he might have been doing a viewer speedrun. You know like speedrun against all the viewers.

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https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/arena/tsm-hikaru-speed-run-part-viii-541218

 

What Hikaru is doing is 

1) creating a new username ScrubStomping

2) getting the rating from new user( whatever that is) to 3000+

right now he is at 2400+ at the end of tournament VIII

the link to part III is here

https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/arena/tsm-hikaru-speed-run-part-iii-528688

 

Part I where he started is here

https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/arena/hikaru-scrub-stomping-part-1-3-0-528367

 

 

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https://www.chess.com/live/game/5541972674

282, that was his start rating