Clueless and hilarious

If you are such an avid follower of GM Nakamura twitter, maybe you know that he is spending some time in the best city in the world: Vancouver. The fact that he played in this tournament is about giving back to the local (chess) community. Accepting to play in this tournament raise the publicity of a chess tournament in a country where hockey the main sport, where the organizing committee is made out of 100% people with regular jobs not chess professionals as in other countries. Do I need to mention that he will also make an appearance in July at the Canadian Youth Chess Championships in Vancouver? In a country when GM titles are in single digits, what GM Nakamura did was an act of grace and you article is just a comedy act.

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Face the facts!

Andrei, if he wanted to show his gratitude, he could as well have given a simul or found a different way of expressing his love for Vancouver. Instead, he first dissed his colleagues for beating "weak" players and then went on to confirm his position by using a well-known exploit in the FIDE rules and taking advantage of amateurs. I would also like to note that your comment is worse than a "comedy act"; it is groundless and senseless.

http://pogonina.com

Face the facts!

I hope that more GMs follow Hikaru's example and play in local tournaments to support local chess. As far as I know, when Hikaru played in such events in the past, he asked the organizers to not FIDE rate them, but I suppose that this time around it would be too late to ask for that as he decided to attend almost in the last minute.  
While simuls are a great way of promoting chess, you really can't compare that to the actual participation in the tournament.

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thanks for the conversation gl hf

What hikaru clearly is doing by playing these amateurs is balancing the ranking...those amateurs will have their ranks droppped with reason and hikaru will balance the game ratings by regaining points that he cleary deserves by using the "glitch" or as you would say in League of Legends, "Fide patch 2.012". 
 
Which is just a natural way to regulate the "kingdom" of that level of chess. 1900=2300 players.  
 
Hikaru, Pogonina and other serious chess players out therem the ones that appear on videos with ratings under 2300 that are trapped in the ELO hell, citing League of Legends again, is to go down the ratings, and start getting consistent wins to get higher ratings almost for free. The famous Chinese Grindcore Gold Farming. Killing Minions non stop to get better weapons and get hit on top level tournaments by pick point. And getting a well paid retreat and helping chesspopularity all over the place.  
"Its like Southpark here: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s10e08-make-love-not-warcraft Watch This Episode 
South Park: Smug Alert 
Original Air Date: 03.29.2006  
Make Love, Not Warcraft."  
 
Kyle and his family are moving to San Francisco. The only way Stan can get his best friend back is to convince everyone to start driving hybrid cars. Just as everyone starts to feel really good about what they're doing for the environment, scientists discover a stormy, dark mass accumulating over the town.  
 
 
All of you guys need to raise your rating by playing people like kingcrusher and william and those yugitube stars. They never win something big and they have all your all your points. They are fair players.  
 
Why dont give that a chance? you already play against the world and other fun activities. You may find surprises or regain those precious 100 points a day, just like a FM 2300 I saw in Chess.com beating a FM 2100 in 1 minute chess. he reach FM 2400 in half and hour.  
 
U guys ...you are in 2400 you should be already 2700, will you tell me William cant beat a 2700? or that pogonina or yu fei or carlsesen why dont you play more...guys i mean seriosuly....look at bronstein , you can read his book and learn how to play chess, jajaja. thats what nakamura is doin. hes targetting them.  
 
u play only against you...play online! For FIDE points 
 
Ja, that Southpark chapter...poor kids playing against hikaru.  
That picture looks like a yugioh convention...but the dragon divisition for 12 year olds. http://www.yugioh-card.com/uk/news/news56.html 
 
so yeah videogame ratings, alex is talking about it already:  
 
Wonder what #videogames #chess champions love? Check this out @Kotaku @VideoGameNews http://www.chessblog.com/2012/04/non-chess-ios-games-for-ipadiphone-that.html 
 
and yeah Reykjavik Open 2012 of course feel stronger , u can go for more points? or actually well in world of warcraft it is recommended since years agothat in order to level up its "faster"done by killing four lower level monsters than one 3,2 level monsters.  
And in League of Legends you kill minions to grind gold.  
 
You guys use the 200 glith, or fide patch you have now.  
 
About Reykjavik Open 2012  
 
Game round 1: 
Steinthorsson Felix 1298 0 - 1  
Ingvason Johann 2132 
Reykjavik Open 2012  
 
Only: 93 points. 
 
U can say the 1200 had a chance, I know. Thats why he earns so small amounts of points. 93. Thats the ladder value of the player.  
 
 
I want to see that game. Not really. 
 
thanks for the post.

thanks for the conversation gl hf

naka destroys defenseless "amateurs" - those that are approximately the same strength as mrs. pogonina - the author of this article should not be insulting mrs. pogonina.

thanks for the conversation gl hf

Fred, I don't think you can compare people rated 1900-2300 with Natalia in terms of skill. Therefore, you are either hypocritically writing this to insult her, or haven't got the slightest notion about chess. 
 
Natalia is a FIDE top player & grandmaster. The guys Naka played against aren't recognized as pro players by the Association of Chess Professionals - need to be IM or stronger to qualify.

http://pogonina.com

simply funny

Such events do not merit discussion. Nakamura helped to promote chess. This is positive. One should not try to blame him or to warn that \"by facing amateurs a top GM loses concentration and then squanders away the freshly gained points playing against his colleagues at super tournaments\". Frankly speaking, such blames or warning are simply funny.

И не западло ему?

Кошмар! Пётр, неужели эти иностранцы не понимают,что такое самоуважение профессионала? У них в английском языке совсем нет понятия "западло"?? Лежат лёгкие деньги, гросс пришёл и завоевал их. Интересно, сколько это баксов? Играл 6 туров, прошла неделя, велик ли доход, обошёлся ли бы он без этих денег? Не стыдно было фотографироваться с детьми на вручении? Никуда не приглашают, что ли?

И не западло ему?

I just noticed this odd article and discussion. Nakamura loves Vancouver and has spent several weeks every year recently in Vancouver - in effect his second home. He has promoted chess in Vancouver in the past with simuls and is positively active in the local chess community. To suggest his motivation for playing in that event was a scheme to pick up a couple rating points is unfair. He happened to be enjoying down time in Vancouver and was persuaded to play. I know one local master who lost to Naka and was delighted by the time Naka spent positively analyzing the game post mortem.

И не западло ему?

Doesn't the list show that Nakamura has remained at #6 rather than regained #6. 
 
Everything about his conduct says that he did this to promote chess rather than to promote himself. 
 
We have a local GM who regularly participates in weekend opens it's a real boost when he turns out. It is a real shame when promoting the game is viewed so cynically.