Why Hikaru Nakamura doesn't participate in US Championship?

Hikaru said he isnt taking chess as a proffesion anymore,he rather streams

Except for the even bigger tournament that starts in 12 days. There's that.

If something isn’t fun, don’t do it. 

Where are your parents? Why do they allow you to be the whole day on internet? Do they know how disrespectful you are?

I agree. I think he had the dream of being the World Champion one day. Now, he is frustrated and has lost interest in the game.

On the other hand, nobody wonders why Carlsen doesn´t participate in the Norwegian national championship, or Grischuk in the Russian one, being played nowadays.

Why wouldn’t you have 100% fun? Makes no sense…

Wait!

I mean that if you don't have fun, don't do it.

You are talking about playing seriously. I agree with you if that's the case.

Lol, I didn't expect it to be such a stormy discourse, haha.

Well, I thought the National Championships are esteemed more by the players than some high-priced competitions, since in my eyes, a prestige of ie. being most titled champion in nation's history outweighs any kind of income. But I'm not even a pro! 

However perhaps the prestige of the large international tournaments is even greater than of a national championship.

I'd say the international events r more prestigious. Especially this one starting on October 27, the top 2 finishers qualify for the next candidates tournament. Nakamura is in it along with Aronian, Caruana, etc. Basically almost all the biggest names in chess. 

Over the past 16 years, Hikaru Nakamura has won the U.S. Chess Championship more than any other player (five times).

He has already proven himself in that regard.

The FIDE Grand Swiss is simply a different whale to chase. It also has a $425,000 prize fund, compared to the US CC's prize fund of $194,000 ... so that might also have something to do with it ...

Yes, us championship is boring to Hikaru.

the guiy probabbly got better, and more important things on his agenda to addend to, simpley as that

lol

national titles are meaningless to world class players. Some do take a sort of small pride in being the person to have won their national championship most times in history but its a small item in their bucket list. (it also depends heavily on country, some FIDE masters have the record for most national titles won in their country, in a post-soviet country, thats no easy feat  at all).

really prestige means really little in chess, aside from the WC, WJC and handful of other events. The game is too meritocratic and rating does already enough justice to need them. After all, one bad week of perfomance does not make the winner of an event a better player than you per se.

when  i was a talented scholastic player in FL often wondered why our top junior players in the rankings, a certain fabiano caruana rated 2400 didnt bother to show up to our junior state championships. In hindsight the answer is pretty obvious, the event wasnt worth the dirt on his shoe even then. Heck , only our legit state championship in the last round or two would have been deemed a worthy warm up (and considering i have reached as high as third in such events, may be not even that lol)

That comment about national championships being meaningless if ur a world class player makes a lot of sense. It's like not caring about a stste championship if ur one of the best nationally. Or not caring about being the best on ur street of ur trying to win a state title. 

Naka needs to focus on getting his azz back in the candidates. 

Naka probably more worried about getten paid and getten leaiyed. Now that he is a big shot in the world its all about the bling bling dolla dolla yo. $$$

He don't got nothin more to prove by winin some crumby tournament. Everyone know he good at chess game. If anything, its a classy move for him to not show up, let the little guiys have their moment in the sun

Yeah, he could get badly burned. Better to stay in the shadow.

all you Hikaru haters are so stupid, Hikaru just won the us championship