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What happened to the top GMs in live chess?

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polydiatonic
Jul 19, 2021
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It used to be fairly common place to see matches between 3000+ Grand Masters in live chess. It seems that something changed a few months ago. Why have they decided to go away? What’s the story here? It seems to have coincided with that kerfuffle involving Nakamura Chesbrah back in April:

“Chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura has addressed his recent controversy in the Twitch community after being accused of copyright striking fellow competitor Eric Hansen's Chessbrah YouTube channel. ... The claims in question were made by Bent Pixels Select, a company that works with Hikaru and TSM.Apr 12, 2021”
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polydiatonic
Jul 20, 2021
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Fonz, this has been going on for months. At least since April I'd say.