Nakamura, The Future World CHamp??

Nakamura could retire from chess to be a full time pick up artist. 

I was expecting to read: "to be a world champion in tai chi push hands".

He could use Tai Chi studeos as day game pick up venues though many hot babes are into it

The thing to consider is that given the way the challenger is selected adn the short match format of the WCC, right now anyone who qualifies for the candidates' tournament has a real chance to take the crown. They may not be able to keep it, but they have a chance to take it. 

Now, if we were in the era of playing till 6 wins or even 24 game matches, then the answer woudl be "no." But to win the world championship crown these days "only" requires getting 12 draws then winning a rapid game.

Any top eschelon GM has a non-zero chance to do that, statistically speaking.  

Are you sure about this? I don't know him personally but all his interviews and every time i hear him speak he seems to be snobby and arrogant.

FirebrandX wrote:

TheRocketKing wrote:

I dont understand why there is so much hate on nakamura, it's because he is asian lol? He is actually mixed :D!

Actually no. It's more to do with two strikes against him:

1. He's American, and just about every other country hates Americans.

2. He had a reputation in his teenage years for being quite the arrogant little jerk (which he has gown out of).  I know a couple of masters here in the states that still hate him to this day for his behavior back then, and they actively root against him every chance they get.

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being American is not reason enough to be hated , problem is when you are also arrogant

but yeah there are the kind of people ( like Floyd Maywheater) who consciently create heat around themselves as a marketing strategy

Mourinho

yeah, he is hated without being American

http://whychess.com/es/node/517

I've always loved Radjabov and his playing style, but his black openings require far too much from him to ever allow him to become number one. Also I think his recent losses have demoralized him. Caruana pumps up his rating playing in tournaments the ultra elite aren't a part of, as Nakamura has accurately noted. Also he grew up in the US, vastly benefited from US chess training and being a part of our country and getting the opportunities we provide, and then because he felt like it he decided to move back to his birth country and declare himself a non-UScitizen. I can see why people who don't like the US love him. I thought he would be really good but some big losses against the worlds best have shown me he's not as good as his rating would tell you.

Aronian is not making any headway on Carlsen. In fact he's losing it. I think he can maintain his current strength compared to the rest of the world, but I dont know if he can improve on it at this point.

Karjakin is an extremely strong player but he'll lose games out of nowhere, or go on random losing streaks. I don't know whats up with that, makes me have less confidence in him.

Grischuk is a strong player but maybe a little too trusting in his rapid abilities, and not that good at time management. He'll let time get really low during some of his games and then start moving quickly in the belief that he's an amazing rapid player. He is but against an elite 2700+ opponent with standard time he's probably gonna not do so well lol. Also I don't really like his openings/style so not inclined to root for him.

Nakamura on the other hand plays some amazingly complicated, very chaotic attacking chess that makes games exciting and he's been significantly improving over the last 3 years. Theres no real telling how far his growth as a player will continue and that's why everyones so excited about him. Also youre either jealous or a hater if you think the #3 in the world has no chance or is being overhyped as the best possibility to surpass the 2 players who are fixtures at the top (Aronian+Carlsen).

Grischuck holds some very odd views but lets stick to chess.  

He says Nakas behavior was ugly and cowardly but doesn't say why.   He seems to not want to talk about that controversy.  

He also says FIDE is talking about a combined champion where they combime blitz rapid and classical.  Wow!  What a bad idea.

The FIDE is terrible. People should really look into finding an alternative organization.

well, his improvement was based mainly in slow down the complicated chaotic attacking chess and play quite solid (in fact taking minimal risks with black), I don't remember classical games from him playing agressive against top opposition in quite a long time

I guess that's the main reason I don't like Naka.  I admire players like Karpov.

If I were good enough to take a game to some stale endgame with the smallest of winning chances and grind it to a win I'd do it every time.

if Nakamura has said that (I find it find to believe) he is very wrong, basically lying cause the way to boost your rating is playing always against tough opposition and not in tournaments without elite players where every draw punish you, it is much better in order to increase your ratting play double round robin against Carlsen, Aronian and Kamsky. So, if he has stated such a think to explain Caruana rating boost in the last year he's being a demagogue, Naka plays only in top tourneys and in board one (unlike Grischuk, Karjakin, Mamedyarov...) with the US  team and so his rating never changes drastically even if he has bad tourneys

And not that I wanted to be that harsh with Naka (which certainly is not my favourite sportman). He is a great player, but if he lost 30 rating points he goes from #3 to #9, so let's relativize that, as somebody mentioned, looks like the market stocks, and for now, Andreikin is closer that him for being world champion and it is already like 3 years from that US champship he refused to take part in because he had to prepare for being World Champ

So what youre telling me is that you're more deserving of a high rating if you can beat down lesser players, more so than if you can hold your own and draw or beat the strongest players? I'm sorry that just seems ridiculous. Not to mention the fact that playing against those players your rating wouldn't increase unless you were getting = or plus scores against them. Moving up to #3 in the world means he's winning or equal against pretty much everyone except the top two. Can you say the same about Caruana's number 6 ranking when he's playing some tournaments with a bunch of 2500-2600's in them and just boosting his rating?

If people dislike Mayweather, Amstrong or other is not because they are American. I used to find Amstrong 7 tours to be the greatest achivement ever done in sport history, but it just turned to be the biggest lie ever in sport industry