KKWORLD17 wrote:
Hikaru Nakamura was born in Japan
I thought he was born in a bed.
Why are there not Japanese Grandmasters?
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Is shogi play same as crazyhouse?
They have also go
egoole wrote:
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Oct 28, 2020
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#126
two_photon wrote:
In my junior high and high school days, I only met a few people who knew how to move pieces. Simply, chess isn't popular in Japan. For many Japanese, chess is an interior appeared in Harry Potter.
Even Shogi become unpopular among young generation. Japanese people have a lot of amusements instead of board games like animated cartoons or games from Nintendo.
Similar to my country
It's crazy that Yoshiharu Habu is the best at both Chess and Shogi in his country. Incredible!
Sep 7, 2021
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#128
no hikaru is not in japan chess federasins he is in us chess fideration so he is not listed there
even though he was born in japan,hirakata
Sep 25, 2021
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#129
KKWORLD17 wrote:
Hikaru Nakamura was born in Japan
When he was two years old, his family moved to the United States
(Wikipedia)
(why is the text B on W, because copy-paste does also pastes the style...)
It is emotion of dominance like samurai.
As someone above noted, Habu is one of the very top Shogi players in Japan. Chess is just a sideline for him. Go, shogi, Mahjong are all much more popular than chess.
Japanese have a different mindset. The fact is that they aren´t so interested in chess because they haven´t any great players yet. In my humble opinion, the world would benefit from serious japanese chess players. If Hikaru Nakamura should win the Candidates Tournment, we could see more kids getting interested in playing professional chess.
An interesting article about Hikaru Nakamura.
https://www.chessjournal.com/facts-about-hikaru-nakamura/
interesting forum, but more interesting is: why India is bad in almost every sport? (taking into account they are 1.4 billion people)
in almost every sport, other than chess...
Oct 16, 2022
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#137
congrandolor wrote:
interesting forum, but more interesting is: why India is bad in almost every sport? (taking into account they are 1.4 billion people)
It's a matter of funding - look at the top countries in the olympics - pretty much mirrors top spending and resource allocation - i.e. lots of money to spend on non essential things like dominating the world at team pursuit cycling.
To reach top level you need to have a lot of things in your favour - natural talent and continued good health, relative wealth so you have space and resource to train and practice all day every day, and investment in trainers, coaches, facilities like stadiums etc.
Oct 16, 2022
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#138
The amazing thing is that sometimes countries with less resources manage to produce world champions against all the odds.
they play games like go and shogi go is very easy any chess player can learn its tatics like in 2-3 hours and in months gain a good rating and shogi is very boring bacuse of its annoying cringe rules
Well, if I were in Japan I'd find better things to do than play chess.
You can do that anywhere!