Hikaru Nakamura is better than Magnus Carlsen?

 2 good player

Disadvantages: Carlsen is great at slow chess and takes his time.

Advantages: Nakamura is a quick thinker and fast player. Due to the fast timing, Carlsen would not be able to think very much.

Both players are incredible at chess. 

Carlsen is blitz champion.

No point arguing with naka fans, they are sort of blind followers

Yes lol. I was thinking that they just watch Hikaru’s streams. The depressing thing is that they were 1700 blitz and don’t know anything about Carlsen, and just blindly follow Nakamura.

IMO the 3 best chess players of all time

1.Magnus Carlsen

2.Viswanathan Anand

3.Vladimir Kramnik

I do know about Carlsen

I'll say their tied

I think Carlsen broke Nakamura.  That's why Hikaru has declined so much in Classical, IMO.

Hikaru is an awesome chess player.   
But I believe he's ranked in the top 30 or top 20 at this moment regarding classical.
And he's ranked Second for blitz.    Sooooo no,   at this moment he's not better then Magnus

     FIDE has a years-long process of qualifying tournaments and matches to select the challenger for a match vs the world champion. Magnus Carlsen has successfully gone through this process and become world champion, then defended his title. Nakamura has not. Should he succeed in the next cycle, then he can be considered as better than Carlsen.

OK, I like Hikaru, but Magnus is better

Hikaru is a super grandmaster in classical, too.

For perspective:

- Titled masters are the top 1% of all chess players.

- Grandmasters are the top 1% of all titled masters.

- Super grandmasters (like Hikaru) are the top 1% of all grandmasters.

Yes, Magnus is the undisputed king of the hill. His accomplishments speak for themselves.

But give Hikaru credit where credit is due ...

Yes, Hikaru is a stellar player. Great skill. But... The Magster is better than Hikaru at classical, rapid, blitz, aaaand bullet, even 960. Not only in real over the board play but even in online competition too. They've played many blitz & bullet games right here on chess.com. Anybody can look the results up. The Magster is likely better in rock/paper/scissors, badminton, & connect 4 too. 

I think it's mostly stupid children who don't know anything about chess outside of twitch / youtube.

Magnus definitely holds the top spot in the blitz/rapid format, though Hikaru seems to be climbing.

In the St. Louis Blitz/Rapid leg of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour, Hikaru walked all over the top players in attendance. He went all 27 rounds undefeated.

Magnus didn't participate in the GCT, unfortunately. No doubt, he would've contributed some stellar games.

And it would've been fun to see him and Hikaru clash yet again.

Though 960 is the one format where Carlsen can't claim total dominance. There, Wesley So is the current king. Surprisingly, even Magnus seems to stand no chance against him.

They did face each other many times in the Champions Chess Tour this year, in the six events both played Carlsen finished ahead of Nakamura every time. So S:t Louis was a bit of an outlier in Nakamura's case.

As for Carlsen standing no chance against So in Chess960, that was certainly the case in the 2019 final of the first World Championship. But as far as I recall Carlsen has won the other Chess960 events he played and that was the one where he finished second, so difficult to say if he just had a bad event that one time.