Discover the online chess profile of GM Hikaru Nakamura (Hikaru) at Chess.com. His highest  USCF rating was 2900 in August 2015.

Zheng has been shocked at how antagonistic his Twitch chat gets when he streams chess; sometimes, he can’t even look at it. Hikaru's Twitch. Hikaru pointed out one thing that he thinks is different between the Twitch community and Chess.

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Popular chess grand master Hikaru Nakamura has been one of the top streamers on the popular platform, Twitch. Read more to know what exactly did Chess GM Hikaru Nakamura during his recent Twitch stream.

People flocked in droves to learn from the best.On top of that though, Hikaru managed to foster a welcoming community.

Now, top On stream, Nakamura has described his new role as Twitch’s chess ambassador as his “calling.” In retrospect, he says, it makes sense; after winning his first championship in 2005, Nakamura says he went over to the hotel lobby to play blitz, or speed, games against random audience members until two or three in the morning.

Go check it out!). Sushant death case: 5-member AIIMS team to reexamine autopsy files as CBI begins probeTerrorist with ISIS links arrested with IED explosives in Delhi's Dhaula KuanCentre urges State govts to formulate own laws to mitigate flood damageSushant death case: Eyewitness cites Mumbai police's 'inaction'; calls out Sandip Ssingh In a twitch stream, xQc was given a crash course in advanced chess strategies.

Now, the grand master has managed to attract a lot of attention with one of his recent streams. and the previously chess … It’s more like reaching the rank of Yokozuna in Sumo wrestling, if that helps.All good and well, but… how do you even stream chess?Hikaru Nakamura has found a new outlet for his chess brilliance by combining the previously gamers-dominated platforms of Twitch, Mixer, Youtube Live, etc. After a millisecond more mental math, Lengyel did just that.

Beginning around late April of 2020, Nakamura’s Twitch stats and viewer counts have geysered upwards, and are now, as of June 16th, consistently reaching over 16,000 viewers per stream.Note the change in the following photos, the first of which is HN’s all time Twitch stats, and the latter of which is only his last 30 days. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation.

“Everyone doesn’t have their whole life to spend playing the game,” Nakamura once said on Twitch. He was seen having a conversation with Levy Rozman on his stream. When all the top streamers picked up Chess in droves earlier in 2020, Hikaru was the grandmaster at the center of it all.While he had already started pulling numbers on the streaming platform well before the ancient game’s renaissance on the platform, its popularity with streamers like Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyel only helped Hikaru’s status on the platform.Hikaru went from chatting to hundreds of viewers daily to tens of thousands seemingly overnight.

Twitch chat exploded as the stream was focused on the mistakes of Felix in his matches against Hikaru Nakamura. What's the more valuable piece, the knight or the bishop? He, along with Magnus Carlsen, have helped bring some of Chess’ biggest stars to the platform. Earlier this month, Hikaru shared that he was the top English language stream on May 17.

It’s stressful, honestly, watching it tick down and down and down.This asserts one thing: the people are there for the chess.

Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, 5-time United States Chess Champion

During a stream earlier this week, chess grandmaster and burgeoning Twitch megastar Hikaru Nakamura discussed the fact that two of his chess compatriots, the … I don’t play chess much unless it’s with family and we want to play a game for fun, and I always thought it was a boring, nerdy game. When all the top streamers picked up Chess in droves earlier in 2020, Hikaru was the grandmaster at the center of it all. He also added that “I’m not someone who has been liked.