Nakamura's Time?

Well, as expected. Not only was it not his time but he also did really REALLY badly.

ONE win......LOL

I'm not a Topalov fan, but I think he's going to be remembered for a long time. He was the World #1 in terms of FIDE rating for some time, and is the one of just seven people so far to have occupied that spot. He also came very close to becoming undisputed world champion on two occasions (although one of them was highly controversial).

Nakamura is so talented that he can rise to number one.  He is able to win against top ten, because he is strong enough, and dares to lose. Playing for win against top ten is also playing sharp, and sharp play is very doubledged. In the canidates Nakumura and Giri ended up with the same 50% score. Nakumura risks more than Giri and therefore he also will both win and lose more. 

I think that Nakamura can win more top ten tournaments if he calms down slightly, and takes  risks like Carlsen , Karjakin and Caruana. He have to still risk more than Giri.

Nakamura often plays Kings Indian as black. It works fantastic against slightly weaker players, but it might be too sharp against Carlsen. Caruana risks less with black, often plays the Berlin wall for a draw, and plays more for win with white.

Behaves like a small child..? You mean when naka in the Candidates tournament tried to say j'adoube after touching the king and trying to get away from moving it? Your favoritism blinds you to the facts.

Touchamura LOL.

Shame how Nakamura finished in the tournament. But objectively he's one of the stronger candidates and still have good chances next cycle. He's uncomprising plays, on a good tournament, can see he blowing out the competition with his "take no prisoners style".

If he does get a match against Carlsen, he has the chance to wipe the slate clean. He's best chance would be to get into the rapid and blitz tiebreak against carlsen, anything can happen there.

Alekhine has never beaten Capablanca before their world championship match. But he becomes the victor in eyes of history by dethroning possibly the most talented player ever.

I will not complain about that j`adoube incident. It is extremely difficult to handle such things when they happen when so much is at stake. He trew away thousands of dollars in a second, and went from draw to lose in a game in  the most important tournament ever. I dont think I would have behaved better. Nobody was hurt, and no bad words were said.

I am proud of Nakamuras performance in the candidates. He played  a lot fantastic chess, and he played for winning, not for draw. He didnt get everything right this time, but thats chess.

BTW, just a sideline from the main topic, I'd like to mention the first impression after looking at this ancient profile pic, this guy must have seen the extinct dodo and even the wooly mammoths ! :D

I had no idea top players could be confused just like me!

Well... not exactly like me lol. But in my imagination they can glance at any position and know immediately the correct evaluation.

Biggest bunch of bull ever, that he figured out all his chess by himself.

His friggin' stepdad was Sunil Weeramantry, a well-known chess coach and author, who helped him the whole way to GM level. 

Once he's a super-GM, ok, he's likely so advanced that he actually does have to figure most of the stuff out on his own as he's better than 99.99% of book authors out there, but he had plenty of help on the road up.

He's a great player, love his KID games. Hope he continues to improve. 

Also, can't touch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UGS-n_zioY

A pity Naka didn't won the candidate's. Magnus vs. Naka would have been an exciting match.

Yeah, something like 12-0 for Carlsen. 

I say that Nakamura is sharp, not drawish and safe. To me it looks like he more often than many other at top ten goes for the win , even with black. Magnus of course wins sharp games against Nakamura, because Nakamura plays sharp, not Giri-safe. I agree that Magnus is a sharp player too, but he is playing more safe (slightly less sharp) now, than he played as a teenager. Caruana is usually less sharp than Nakamura with black, but when he absolutely needs to win, like in the final candidategame versus Karjakin, he goes very sharp too. Nakamuras Kings Indian Defence is sharp.

I think that Nakamura will win more top ten tournaments if he plays slightly  less sharp. But I can be wrong, because he might be best at his own style. Myself I am trying to increase my drawrate, and has done this with some success (not much) and gone from 5%  to 6% draw in  a year in my online-correspondencegames. Nakamura might benefit from thoughts like that, and I recommend him  a trainingcamp with Anish Giri.

Magnus Carlsen is the best, and one if his advantages is that he can play everything.  Both sharp and safe. He was as a kid extremely sharp but has broadened his repertoire and has developed into a more complete player. 

Nakamura has like Carlsen a very sharp history, so its easy to guess that he can improve a lot if he focuses more on safe play.  Carlsen can be compared to the Norwegian footballplayer Ronny Johnsen, who was a great goalgetter, and later became  a fantastic defender for Norway and Manchester United.