once more let we chech who is best.Here are the links of Gibraltar chess tournament and Tata steel chess tournament:
Please see how many top 20 players played in one tournament and in other tournament and tell me who won and who is best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Nakamura plays all kinds of players, even the weak and lousy (comparatively) FMs and NMs. The same cannot be said about the other top players, especially Carlsen"
Carlsen was the first reigning World Champion in 45 years to participate in an open. He won it, and then played and won another open after that. So I don't know if Carlsen should be singled out more than any other top player with regards to "avoiding weakies", if it is supposed to be a bad thing to mainly play the strongest opponents.
that is truth.thats why Hikaru will soon fall behind best players in the world.They dont play bullet games with NM and IM they are working to improve themself.Its simple:i will not try to play with NM they are too strong for me(and they willnot accept my chalenge because i am too weak),so they dont need to play against Hikaru he is too strong for them
8-1 against Anand and 5-4 against Kramnik in classics is not a joke he is better than Caruana for sure
8-1 against Anand and 5-4 against Kramnik in classics is not a joke he is better than Caruana for sure
Over the past 2 years, Nakamura has spent an average of about 23 minutes a day playing bullet on chess.com (assuming 2 minutes a game), which is quite a moderate amount of time in comparison with that available for study and play. It would be a bit bonkers to say that the development of one of the top handful of chess players in the world has been hindered by playing bullet ! Is everyone who is not world champion suffering from such millstones on their development? 
I think that Naka simply enjoy playing chess. If you look at all the top players, they never speak on "How I'm great". If you like your profession, then you wake up in the morning and you are happy to do this Job. Naka is a great player of course, but great doesn't mean "The best".
He has been number 2 in the world and has been in the top 10 for most of his career, which is a pretty good achievement for a professional chess player.
Americans must think new chess games.Hikaru again lost from Magnus Carlsen hahaha
https://www.chess.com/news/view/carlsen-beats-nakamura-14-10-in-fischer-random-chess
it's not so much how good he is to me but that he plays where we can watch and see. he will also play non ranked players and you can tell him to play people you want him to play. he's the peoples champ so to say
This.
Nakamura plays all kinds of players, even the weak and lousy (comparatively) FMs and NMs. The same cannot be said about the other top players, especially Carlsen.
By playing with "lousy" players, he exposes himself to costly defeats which may also hurt his reputation, but still he manages to keep his rating high. He puts his neck on the line. That's one of the reasons why he is popular, and NOT just with Americans here....
His problem with Carlsen is mainly psychological. He has no issues bumping off other very strong GMs, but with Carlsen, I guess he plays a few hundred points lower than his true ability...
Play the board, not the player.
Magnus plays againsts us commoners on the sight which must not be named also so he doesnt exact;y avoid us
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...
Best bullet player? That's another myth.
yup, doubt Hikaru would even be in the top 3
He utterly dominates the rankings on chess.com. Just 5 days ago he hit a new high rating of 3319 which is 163 points higher than number 2.
He utterly dominates the rankings on chess.com. Just 5 days ago he hit a new high rating of 3319 which is 163 points higher than number 2.
Sure he dominate when all top players dont play on this site. You do know Magnus is streaming alot at chess24? He can reach number one only on sites where Magnus dont play a lot
Maybe so. It is fair to say that heads-up, Magnus has the edge There is a difference between long term performance and one off matches, though the two should be strongly related. I suspect knowing you are playing the world champion is a negative factor for Nakamura.
Could Magnus get 3400 at bullet on chess.com if he played here like Naka?
Maybe so. It is fair to say that heads-up, Magnus has the edge There is a difference between long term performance and one off matches, though the two should be strongly related. I suspect knowing you are playing the world champion is a negative factor for Nakamura.
Could Magnus get 3400 at bullet on chess.com if he played here like Naka?
I highly doubt Magnus would hit 3400, let alone 3300. He was struggling against Nihal Sarin, Iturrizaga and Arjun Erigaisi on the "other" chess site. He seems to lose about 30% of his 1/0 bullet games against all these players which I do not think would trouble Naka as much. He also has an even record against Daniel Naroditsky after about 20 or so games if not mistaken (a good sample size), a player that Naka has no issues beating. But note that I said 1/0 bullet and not 1/1 bullet.
But what is interesting is both have different styles of playing. Carlsen often tends to play trollish or dubious openings in 1/0, even losing material, and then proceed to outplay his opponents, while Naka tends to stick to conventional systems often with fianchettoed bishops.
Naka will beat him in 1|0 if they play. They never squared off in pure bullet chess.
it's not so much how good he is to me but that he plays where we can watch and see. he will also play non ranked players and you can tell him to play people you want him to play. he's the peoples champ so to say
This.
Nakamura plays all kinds of players, even the weak and lousy (comparatively) FMs and NMs. The same cannot be said about the other top players, especially Carlsen.
By playing with "lousy" players, he exposes himself to costly defeats which may also hurt his reputation, but still he manages to keep his rating high. He puts his neck on the line. That's one of the reasons why he is popular, and NOT just with Americans here....
His problem with Carlsen is mainly psychological. He has no issues bumping off other very strong GMs, but with Carlsen, I guess he plays a few hundred points lower than his true ability...
Play the board, not the person.