Am I better at chess than Super GM Hikaru Nakamura?

So I've always thought of my chess skills as average or maybe slightly above average until today when a benevolent soul told me not even Hikaru could match my accurate play.

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Suspicious Game 1

https://www.chess.com/game/daily/540617439

Suspicious Game 2

https://www.chess.com/game/daily/540617451

Before you dismiss their assessment of my chess abilities you should check out my 50-game win streak.

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Here's a quick look at some of my most recent games.

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Notice how they didn't point out their own excellent performance with 94.2% accuracy. How humble! Kendrick Lamar will be proud.

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My only regret is that they didn't compare me to former world chess champion and the GOAT Magnus Carlsen.

Claim 1: 'Nobody, and I mean nobody plays with that kind of accuracy at that consistently, with barely even an inaccuracy let alone blunders, misses or mistakes. Not even someone like Hikaru.'

Response: If you had the slightest clue of what you're babbling about, you would see I regularly make blunders, mistakes and inaccracies. Image 3 shows the first game on the list excluding my games with @nostiken and @Calico_Zack where they lost on time. It was a tournament game against @Forrest_Gumph where I played with accuracy of 82.7%. Image 6: There were 0 brilliant moves, 2 inaccuracies and 1 miss from my end. Furthermore, a chess grandmaster would've at the very least shown better endgame technique than whatever the heck I was doing there.

Game link: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/537659615

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I had the following accuracy rate in games of image 4: 81.7%, 92.9 %, 86.5%, 90.5%, 93.1%, 86.7%, 86.1%, 73.9%, 87.2%, 88.3%. Similar figures can be found in image 5 where my accuracy rats is as follows: 90.1%, 97%, 78.1%, 96.1%, 92.8%, 96.1%, 75.1%, 89.1%, 84.8%. It must be clear my accuracy varies between 70s to 90s. I've higher accuracy against relatively lower rated players and lower accuracy against comparatively higher rated players which is obviously understandable. Higher rated players tend to be more tactical and strategically aware which leaves more room for their opponents to make mistakes. Let me remind you that most people are more accurate in higher time controls such as Daily/Correspondence games. You make few errors because you have more time to think through your moves.

Let's look at the review of my game against @dasbak in image 7. It says 0 brilliant moves, 3 inaccuracies, 2 mistakes, 2 missed opportunities and 1 blunder. Notice how the only blunder of the game was made by none other than me. So much for 'barely even an inaccuracy let alone blunders, misses or mistakes!'

Game link: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/534548833

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Let's now examine how I fared in my matchup with @Goworowo who is an experinced player. They're one of the strongest opponents I ever faced. We played two games. One of my games was a win, the other a loss. In the game I won against them: 4 inaccuracies, 3 mistakes, 2 missed opportunities and 1 blunder. In the game I lost against them: 4 inaccuracies, 3 mistakes, 0 missed opportunities and 0 blunder. Who knew blunder leads to victory in chess? See image 8, image 9 and image 10.

Games link: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/522467001 and https://www.chess.com/game/daily/522467015

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According to the Game Review in image 10, @Goworowo had an accuracy of 93.7%. Look at image 11 which shows a few recent games played by @Goworowo. The accuracy rates of 100% and 92.9%, which is quite impressive, but you don't see me whining. You know why? Because I'm not a sore loser.

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I need to address assertions on Nakamura's skills made by @nostiken. They don't seem to comprehend the level of chess someone like Nakamura plays. To be fair to them, many of us, including me sometimes are perplexed by 20 moves deep variations we see in grandmaster level games but we all vaguely recognise how good they are at chess. Image 12 shows Nakamura playing 60 second bullet games with various grandmasters including 3161 rated @Jospem.

@nostiken, listen, I'll be nice to you but you can't compare your patzer games with Nakamura's games. He can beat thousands of you blindfolded with 10 seconds on his clock with 100% accuracy. the only reason he isn't that accurate all the time is because he's playing against other grandmasters and super grandmasters. Tougher opponents play trickier moves. For the Queen's sake, a child could understand that. Moreover, most of these games are berserked meaning players will only get 30 seconds.

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If @nostiken wants to understand what kind of chess Hikaru Nakamura is capable of playing before they start spewing nonsense, I suggest them to refer to this article by ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/hikaru-nakamura-wins-norway-chess-2023

Claim 2: 'I don't believe I'm even playing legit games.'

Response: You can believe whatever the fudge you want just like flat earthers believe the earth is flat and climate change deniers believe we don't need to cut carbon emissions.

Claim 3: 'And no surprise there with your accuracy on the second game, there's not a doubt in my mind that you would have kept that accuracy through to the end game.'

Response: Again, wrong! I wouldn't have kept that accuracy through to the endgame because I would've finished you off in the opening just like I did it in our first game. Maybe you subconsciously realised that and decided to blame others but yourself. On a side note, it's telling that you conveniently left out the part where your accuracy was 94.2% in our second game since you believe such accurate play is only possible with the assistance of a chess engine. What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.

Claim 4: 'It will catch up with you eventually man, once support get enough complaints through from people.'

Response: I hope it does. I'm bored of chess anyway and could use a break. Maybe I could do something productive.

And finally fellow comrades, do you think I'm some kind of humanoid stockfish? Or is a chess engine being used? No, seriously, I want to know does it look sketchy? I know my win rate is extremely high, but I guess it'll balance out because I'm playing higher rated players as I climb the ELO ladder myself.

Anyways, thanks for your time and have a great day!

While I may not be the best judge here by any means, I think it's important to not that accuracy varies here on the part of both players. Some games with opponents at 94-95%. It's also important to consider that the majority of wins are resignations and timeouts. I certainly wouldn't be able to tell a suspicious game just by looking at it as my skills are not that good, but having played 13pax I can at least vouch that they are a very kind and considerate opponent, even offering me advice while we played.

@MellowCornbb I'm glad to hear your input. Correspondence chess tournaments usually don't start instantly which results in timeout defeats for the sound minded individuals who don't log into this website daily.

Now these few tiresome moments before chess dot com recognises my brilliance and bestows upon me the GOAT and the GM title. Can't wait to party with Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren.

Don't worry if any player accused you it is just a comment on your game if you are good and passionate in things you should care nobody

And the accuracy which crossed 90+ is just a short games

That guy is lying

@Mr_Mathematician Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever be accused of cheating. I'm simply not good enough for such a thing to happen. I never won any significant OTB tournament. Only in regional or school level competitions did I have any success. I do enjoy playing chess. But lately, I'm kinda bored of it. I just continue to play because I don't want to lose in the tournaments I signed up for months ago.

@nostiken seems to think I've 90%+ accuracy in each and every game. You're absolutely right that I should just take it as a compliment.

yeah he just wants to protects his identy

@13pax youre really a fighter you fought to prove him wrong

he compared youreself to hikaru not magnus

anyways i'll report him to chess.com

Correct! Such people assume that they are superior to everyone else and demand acceptance as such, while doing nothing to deserve it. Narcissistic stuff.

@hkchessking Thank you so much! I would have preferred to talk to @nostiken directly. They DM'd me and then blocked me before I could respond to their message. I simply felt compelled to put what was on my thoughts in writing.

I don't want @nostiken banned or anything. Please don't report them.

Don't worry! If he accused you of cheating and reported even though you didn't did anything wrong, You won't be banned. Anyway, You should try to talk with them and tell them that you didn't cheat.

I don't know what the point of the OP is. Are we supposed to congratulate on the winning streak or what? Too long and too boring.

@13pax as you say

by the way thank you for the e-trophy

So he played daily chess as if it was blitz and hung mate in 1? Nice.

[ They DM'd me and then blocked me before I could respond to their message. I simply felt compelled to put what was on my thoughts in writing.]i understand @13pax they just want to protect themselves

nowdays people do anything to make them prime but he was really jealous about you winning but i understand 

anyways i hope we collaborate in the future

Does it look like the player with the white pieces in the first game did anything extraordinary? Did he play better than Hikaru Nakamura? He didn't do anything particularly noteworthy, in my arrogant opinion. The point of the OP is to thoroughly refute the accusation of cheating. It's game showcase forum not fun with chess. For humour, I suggest you visit this forum: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/got-memes-6

You deserve it.

It's frustrating when it happens to you yet delightful when it happens to your opponent for some unknown reason.

You got me. I sent you a friend request so we can easily play later.

Thanks for the trophy.

No.