Grand master Hikaru challenges Obama to chess match on Twitch Flickr\/Instagram\/TwitchChess GM Hikaru Nakamura has issued a challenge to former US President Barack Obama to play a match on Twitch after the success of Alexandria \u2018AOC\u2019 Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s Among Us stream. Like many, Hikaru, who recently became a member of the esports organization TSM, was watching AOC\u2019s legendary Twitch stream on October 20 where the congresswoman competed against Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys and Ben \u2018DrLupo\u2019 Lupo. Over 420,000 people tuned in to watch the groundbreaking broadcast, prompting Hikaru to take to Twitter in an effort to get in on the sensation of politicians playing games on Twitch. \u201cHey Barack Obama \u2013 I see AOC on Twitch tonight doing a promotion for voting and playing Among Us with some huge streamers,\u201d the chess GM began, tagging both Obama and Cortez. \u201cAny chance you\u2019d be interested in a chess match to raise funds for the Joe Biden Victory Fund and Act Blue?\u201d Hey @BarackObama \u2013 I see @aoc on twitch tonight doing a promotion for voting and playing Among Us with some huge streamers. Any chance you’d be interested in a chess match to raise funds for the @joebiden Victory Fund and @actblue? Let me know, my dms are open! \u2014 Hikaru Nakamura (@GMHikaru) October 21, 2020 The response to Hikaru\u2019s challenge was mixed by his own followers, with some wondering why the streamer would engage in politics. \u201cHow the f*** do I follow you for chess and I see politics?\u201d one concerned user asked. \u201cI\u2019m surprised as well,\u201d another replied in response. However, not everyone was down on the challenge. Many of Hikaru\u2019s followers were open to the idea and quote-tweeted the chess GM to encourage the match. \u201cNakamura challenging Obama to a chess game? Wow, this election is getting truly exciting,\u201d one follower wrote with glee. So far, however, the forty-forth president has yet to reply to Hikaru\u2019s challenge publicly. It is possible that Obama decided to simply slide into Hikaru\u2019s DMs to organize the match, so we should wait and see how this unfolds. If the battle between Hikaru and Obama does end up taking place, it will be super interesting to see what kind of numbers it would pull on the platform, especially given the recent success of AOC\u2019s stream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Grand master Hikaru challenges Obama to chess match on Twitch Flickr\/Instagram\/TwitchChess GM Hikaru Nakamura has issued a challenge to former US President Barack Obama to play a match on Twitch after the success of Alexandria \u2018AOC\u2019 Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s Among Us stream. Like many, Hikaru, who recently became a member of the esports organization TSM, was watching […]<\/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-49185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49185","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=49185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}