Chessbrah sides with Hikaru on Andrea Botez\u2019s \u201ccringe\u201d World Chess Championship joke Twitch\/chess\/Instagram\/amanhambleton\/itsandreabotezChessbrah host Aman Hambleton has surprisingly sided with fellow Twitch streamer Hikaru Nakamura\u2019s take that Andrea Botez was wrong to ask a joke question at the World Chess Championship. On November 30, the Botez sisters were in Dubai to attend the World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi when Andrea decided to ask a question at the press conference. Her question was an inside joke for Magnus, asking him \u201chow does the Knight move,\u201d which prompted a grin followed by semi-serious answer from the chess legend. However, it still caused some issues in the greater chess community. In particular, Hikaru slammed Botez, claiming that such joke questions \u201cshould not be happening\u201d at the prestigious chess event. And as it turns out, he\u2019s not the only one who feels that way. \u2658 @itsandreabotez asks @MagnusCarlsen how the knight moves \u2b07\ufe0f #CarlsenNepo pic.twitter.com\/GV1Z7sPd6V \u2014 Chess.com (@chesscom) December 1, 2021 Chessbrah says Andra \u201calienated\u201d Ian Nepomniachtchi During his own stream, Chessbrah watched the video of Andrea asking her question and didn\u2019t take too kindly to her line of questioning. \u201cHere\u2019s the thing. Botez sisters, I like them and I like what they bring. But, it\u2019s in the middle of the world championship and you shouldn\u2019t make it all about you,\u201d he said. \u201cYou should never, and this is a comedic rule, this is a serious event, you should never make an inside joke that only includes one of the players.\u201d Hambleton noted that if both Nepomniachtchi and Carlsen were in on it, things would be different. \u201cAnytime you alienate one of the players, it\u2019s not funny. It\u2019s immediately not funny and it just becomes cringe,\u201d he added. \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t exclude one of the players\u2026 that\u2019s just bad comedy.\u201d Chessbrah agrees with Hikaru After watching Hikaru\u2019s take, the streamer sided with the GM, claiming he \u201cfully agrees\u201d with his opinion. \u201cI think he\u2019s right. F**k, I think he\u2019s totally right,\u201d Chessbrah said. \u201cYou got Andrea Botez asking Magnus Carlsen how the knight moves while Nepo\u2019s there asking \u2018literally who are you and why are you in my conference?\u2019 Seriously, I agree with Hikaru.\u201d Seeing Hambleton and Hikaru on the same page is certainly quite interesting. Add in the fact that opinions on Andrea\u2019s joke have been mixed and it seems like the community is very divided. You could even say it\u2019s a stalemate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chessbrah sides with Hikaru on Andrea Botez\u2019s \u201ccringe\u201d World Chess Championship joke Twitch\/chess\/Instagram\/amanhambleton\/itsandreabotezChessbrah host Aman Hambleton has surprisingly sided with fellow Twitch streamer Hikaru Nakamura\u2019s take that Andrea Botez was wrong to ask a joke question at the World Chess Championship. On November 30, the Botez sisters were in Dubai to attend the World Chess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}