Nakamura vs Carlsen at bullet & Deathmatch
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How high do you think he could get on chess.com, MSC?
AchiIles wrote:
AchiIles wrote: How high do you think he could get on chess.com, MSC? 3100+ of course!
How high do you think he could get on chess.com, MSC?
AchiIles wrote:
How high do you think he could get on chess.com, MSC?
While I'm pretty sure he would edge Naka (if his hand is fast in endgames of course, Naka's definitely is), I'm not sure he'd so easily get 3200. 3100+ is possible if he's persistent enough.
Bronstein would crush both of them.
Classical games: Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura12 to 0, with 18 draws. Blitz: Including rapid/exhibition games: Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura 19 to 5, with 25 draws. Only rapid/exhibition games: Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura 7 to 5, with 7 draws. Want to know a little know fact that will bring tears to those rooting for Nakamura? The night the World Blitz Championship finished, late last year, Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura played a private 40-game blitz match. That’s well known, but for whatever reason they kept the result secret. The secret is out: in the latest edition of New In Chess Magazine, Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam spills the beans. The winner was… Carlsen, by a fairly hefty 24.5-15.5 score. Now when you interpret this data, you can conclude without question that Magnus will disassemble him in any time control: Blindfold/Classical/Blitz/Rapid/Bullet... you name it.
Hikaru is a tactical beast while Carlsen is a positional monster.
Feb 15, 2016
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I have watched a few epic bullet battles between Naka(smallvile) and MC(Nielsen?) on icc a few years back, seems pretty even back then.
Well Naka is somewhat of a specialist. He wouldn't necessarily get above Naka. Anyway I'd love to see a deathmatch involving him.
DamonevicSmithlov wrote:
Naka is maybe best when playing bullet on a computer. Magnus likely best in real over the board bullet.
I'd actually consider bullet on the computer to be the "real bullet," strange as that sounds.
^Without lag. Then yes.
Elubas-" I'd actually consider bullet on the computer to be the "real bullet," strange as that sounds."
Yes, moving pieces is a lot quicker when on computer.
Right, bullet over the board is way too chaotic with pieces flying everywhere. Playing online is the only feasible way for the time control to work.
I know Carlsen has been said to have played anonymously online before on ICC and perhaps other chess websites, but from what I know, no account has ever been close to reaching Nakamura's 3100 in the 1 minute pool. From what I remember, no other account has ever reached even 2900.
I think if Carlsen dedicated some time in getting used to the techniques and strategies for playing bullet chess online, he would be the most formidable challenger to Nakamura; I think he could get to 3100 on chess.com. Carlsen has proven to be a superior player to Nakamura in all other time controls, bullet seems to be the last remaining one.
For now, Nakamura is considered the best at bullet because no one has proven to top him in terms of rating or head to head matchups. I would personally give Nakamura the edge in 1 0 if they were to play today.
Recently, Hikaru Nakamura broke the 3200 barrier in bullet on live chess reaching an astounding peak at 3220, now being more than 300 points higher than the next highest rated contender on chess.com being Maxime Vachier Lagrave at 2903. It seems like Nakamura is virtually unstoppable when it comes to bullet, but how would he fare against the Mozart of chess and current world champion?
We've seen Magnus play fast, handicapped chess against fellow GMs and reputable players like Danny Rensch, seeming to win with ease. How high could he get if he played bullet on chess.com? Is one of chess.com's next goals to bring Magnus Carlsen to the spotlight for a Deathmatch between him and Nakamura?
What do you guys think?