GM Hikaru strikes back at chess cheating accusations with \u201cinsane\u201d win streak YouTube\/GMHikaruChess legend GM Hikaru Nakamura has responded to Vladimir Kramnik\u2019s cheating allegations by going on a wild win streak that has the community in awe. Hikaru went on an impressive hot streak earlier this month, winning fifteen games straight to break the all-time Chess.com blitz rating record, but not everyone was happy for the Kick streamer. Following the impressive accomplishment, Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik suggested that Hikaru had cheated. Hikaru denied the allegations, calling them \u201cgarbage,\u201d but that didn\u2019t stop the world\u2019s top player, Magnus Carlson, from roasting his rival on social media. However, instead of simply continuing to dismiss the claims, Hikaru went on the offensive, returning to blitz chess with an incredible 43-game win streak. Needless to say, the community was blown away. GM Hikaru goes on the offensive amid chess cheating allegations Hikaru\u2019s November 23 streak began on Kick.com, where he had signed a non-exclusive deal, and he didn\u2019t disappoint. The GM started winning and kept winning and just didn\u2019t stop winning, with his stream getting the attention of popular chess YouTuber GothamChess who called the streak \u201cinsane.\u201d \u201cGrandmaster Hikaru Nakamura has just won 43 blitz chess games in a row, live on stream\u2026 he is clearly sending a message regarding the recent comments from Vladimir Kramnik,\u201d he praised. Users in the comments were equally as baffled, but many spoke highly of Nakamura while taking aim at Kramnik for starting the rumors to begin with. \u201cKramnik has gone off the rails,\u201d one said. \u201cI hope Hikaru uses this as motivation to finally win his first over the board World Blitz gold medal,\u201d someone else remarked. I hope Hikaru uses this as motivation to finally win his first over the board World Blitz gold medal. \u2014 Frank Smith (@chessandsuccess) November 23, 2023 That said, not everyone was as delighted, with a few users even under the impression that this stunt added to the cheating speculation. \u201cI love hikaru but there\u2019s literally no way he clearly cheats rn,\u201d a user commented. \u201cHe keeps playing the same people over and over and they are not on his level. This is like Kevin Durant playing one on one against college players and people being shocked that he wins every game.\u201d So far, there hasn\u2019t been any proof offered indicating that Hikaru has cheated in any capacity, but this is hardly the first time a chess cheating scandal has rocked the community. Last year, Hans Niemann was accused of using an adult toy to cheat in an over-the-board tournament and defeat Magnus Carlsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GM Hikaru strikes back at chess cheating accusations with \u201cinsane\u201d win streak YouTube\/GMHikaruChess legend GM Hikaru Nakamura has responded to Vladimir Kramnik\u2019s cheating allegations by going on a wild win streak that has the community in awe. Hikaru went on an impressive hot streak earlier this month, winning fifteen games straight to break the all-time […]<\/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-49130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49130","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=49130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}