How to talk like Hikaru Nakamura

1. Thank you to _______ for the prime, thank you so much, I appreciate it!!

2. Somehow I misplayed this.

3. Oh, why did I do this, I'm so bad at chess

4. I'll just take the juicer, load up on this juicer, and then just go here and here and here and here.

5. Ok, so let's do this and this and this and this and this. (see diagram)

and where is "so takes takes then check and if he goes here than i mate him otherwise he just loses his queen"

and where is *fake, forced laugh at a joke from gothamchess he doesn't fully understand*

genius!

What's juicer?

juicy juice

"Yeah, I should be winning here. If takes, takes, then takes takes takes, takes takes, takes check, Ke2 takes, takes takes takes takes, takes takes, takes takes takes, then takes takes, then if Ne7 then I sauce the diagonal, and his juicer is hanging, unless he takes, then takes takes takes, then I take ... *stares at ceiling* then takes takes, takes takes takes ... hmm.. it's pretty unclear. I think I'll just castle."

"I don't know if this is right, but whatever ..."

"I think I'm winning here ... *one move later* Ugh. I totally misplayed this. I'm not happy with my position at all."

Oh yeah. I think I'm winning. Um... ok. Yeah Levy, I think I'm winning this. 

I mean, sure your position isn't terrible but I'm winning.

*Makes a weird face*

Just repeat a sentence 6 times and watabang wataboom your Hikaru

@infestationPit Almost the most watched Twitched streamer being forgotten in a decade? I don't think so.

@DreamscapeHorizons A juicer is a chess piece.

lol

And only 5 arrows on the example board? I do more than that sometimes (not on chess.com because the knight arrows are stupid).

Hikaru is ridiculous because he'll do a 10 move variation (so 20 arrows)... and it's not ridiculous because of skill, even masters can do that much, it's ridiculous because variations that long are pointless, especially in speed games. It's a way to show off to players who are too weak to know that it's not impressive.

But when you understand half of what he's talking about, you feel like Hikaru.

Maybe if I watched him more I'd understand. Usually to me it just look like a big mess on the board

Hikaru gets a lot of hate, for whatever reasons, but I find him quite entertaining to watch. And often instructive, to see the lines and tactics that he considers.

By contrast, whenever I watch Carlsen stream his games (Banter Blitz, for example), I find it a bit dry and boring (and not particularly instructive). Which is kind of disappointing.

What hate?

Carlsen doesn't stream for instruction... but neither does Hikaru.

But if you find him entertaining, that's great.

I don't think Carlsen particularly likes teaching. Here's his "Rule of the Square" instructional video, which easily qualifies for the least enthusiastic instructional chess video I've ever seen:

It felt like a contract obligation. Lol.