Hikaru Nakamura

For some time i have question about Hikaru Nakamura and its:Why everybody saying that he is great player?

Yes i know he is very,very good player but not great as everybody say.I think(read "think") he said that all the players now can beat Fisher.I am sure that Magnus,Karjakin,Giri... can beat him but Nakamura????

I am following chess on chess .com only year 2016 but i can not see what he have done.In  Grandmaster Blitz Battle Championship Carlsen killed him 14.5-10.5 and that is a lot because we saw later Karjakin was much better in 1 vs 1 against Carlsen.Somebody said "Naka played bad that day",but when he played fantastic that we can all say he had terible day??????Should i say anything about World Rapid And Blitz Championship?Same old,nowhere Nakamura.

I know,who i am to say he is not good player when i am ranking 1600,but i dont say he is not good.He is but i just want to know why people like him when there is lots of better players then he.Somebody will say what about olimpic games.Well,he did not play alone,he played in team.I know he is "American" and lots of American people will tell me that i am idiot,maybe even jealous,but i realy dont hate him.I just dont know why everybody say(regardless who play) Naka is Best.Well all resultats say that he is not and soon (my opinion) So will be much better then him.Sorry if i did not write everything perfect but i did not write english for 10 Years

Though his performance in 2016 isn't what I would have hoped, Nakamura is one of the greats. He's one of (IIRC) 9 players that have crossed the 2800 mark. I agree, he does get emphasized a lot by us Americans, but that doesn't mean he's not a great player.

Well, he is #7 in the world, and probably the best bullet chess player... I guess that's not too bad.

Apart from that I don't know many people who believe that he is stronger than Carlsen...

Make that 11 going by end of the month ratings, and 12 by live rating.

"For some time i have question about Hikaru Nakamura and its:Why everybody saying that he is great player?"

He has 8-1 against Anand in classical time controls and 5-4 against Kramnik, only a great player can have such stats against such opponents.

Best bullet player? That's another myth.

So i gues i am not only one who think same about him.I must say he is very great player,he is in top 10 players in world but best bullet chess player????? Maybe,maybe not

Here's another thread that might help you.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/naka-is-not-the-best-blitz-player-in-the-world2

I was watching the blitz championship with a friend a few days ago and we both noticed something. One of his games, I dont remember which one, he had to make a very simple move which would have won, and instead he moved somewhere else and ended up drawing one or two moves later. So either two things are possible, he overlooked something that a 1200 rated player easily saw, or we are wrong and it wasnt a winning move. I think he is a great player too, but I also think he made a huge mistake for being a grandmaster.

Seems he is #1 here on chess.com:  https://www.chess.com/livechess/players?type=Bullet  So that assumption is not totally off the mark. Who else - except Magnus and maybe Roland Schmaltz :-) - could claim to be equally strong?

Looks like #2 to me. 

And players lie Karjakin, Anand, So, Caruana don't even play here. So Hikaru might as well be #3 or #4.

And I haven't been playing bullet here recently, so it might be #4 or #5.

He he. 

And to me it looks like #1

As I said he is probably the best bullet player. And being face to face with the highest rated player in the history of chess doesn't seem to be so bad. 

And speaking of myths: On ICC Caruana's 1-minute rating is 2505, So's is 2627 ... compared to Naka's 3077.

For a while he was a sensation on ICC as the highest rated blitz and bullet player. This was before Carlsen was world champ, maybe as many as 10 years ago, and that reputation seems to have hung around a long time.

Even so, he was runner up in the chess.com blitz battle thing... #2 is easily "one of the best"

As for real chess, he's consistently been in the top 10 for maybe 10 years by now. So yes, he's one of the best players in the world. You want a reason why? Because he literally is, just look at the ratings.

Hi! I want to answer you for question: why everybody saying that he is great player?

I`m not so sure everybody say this but still... I think his great! 

But... not such caliber like players you mention. Why he is great for my point of view? 

He is a perfect example of hardworker! His ability to complicate games and win even a lost position is amazing too. 

In bullet... he is absolutely no 1! Yes! Why? In match witch Magnus time control was... 1+1! And this one small plus give a advantage for Magnus.  

A very simple response to the question of this topic is to note that research suggests there has not been rating inflation in FIDE ratings and that Nakamura has achieved one of the highest chess ratings of all time. At blitz he is also in the group of the very best ever and at bullet (an inferior form of chess to those of us inclined more towards correspondance time controls!) he may be the best ever.

Nakamura being better than most world champions, perhaps he should rue being around in the Carlsen era, or maybe his time will yet come.

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