Hans Niemann slams GMHikaru for calling opponent\u2019s family \u201ccrazies\u201d after losing Instagram: hans_niemann \/ Instagram: gmhikaruChess star Hans Niemann slammed GMHikaru after the latter lost to Alireza Firouzja and subsequently called his family \u201ccrazies\u201d. Chess grandmaster Alireza is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2800 and showcased his proficiency during the 2024 Bullet Chess Championship. He won four matches on the final day, taking home the title and defeating grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura. And while Hikaru congratulated Alireza on X (formerly Twitter) after the match, a comment he made later has rubbed some in the chess community the wrong way \u2014 namely, Hans. While streaming a chess game, Hikaru spoke with his chat about the championship and stated Alireza played \u201creally, really well\u201d, comparing his performance to that of \u201ca God.\u201d He then went on to say, \u201cAlireza cares a lot more about all these things. He, his dad, his brother \u2014 all those crazies care more about these things than I ever will, unfortunately.\u201d Hans wasn\u2019t impressed by this label given to Alireza\u2019s family, posting the clip to X and writing, \u201cWhy did you personally attack Alireza and his family after the match? Calling them \u2018crazies\u2019 seems like a pretty low blow and pretty poor sportsmanship.\u201d \u201cHow can you lose a match and then make personal attacks towards his family?\u201d the chess star said after hearing Hikaru\u2019s comments. \u201cAnd he calls me immature? What does [Alireza] beating you have to do with his family?\u201d While Hikaru hasn\u2019t responded to Hans\u2019 comments, one viewer stated they didn\u2019t think the grandmaster \u201cmeant it in a malicious way\u201d and was instead \u201cjust poking fun after a dreadful match.\u201d Nonetheless, many felt Hikaru was acting like a \u201csore loser,\u201d and one person wrote, \u201cHikaru is the only guy on earth who will repeatedly tell you that he does not care while having a public meltdown right there and then.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hans Niemann slams GMHikaru for calling opponent\u2019s family \u201ccrazies\u201d after losing Instagram: hans_niemann \/ Instagram: gmhikaruChess star Hans Niemann slammed GMHikaru after the latter lost to Alireza Firouzja and subsequently called his family \u201ccrazies\u201d. Chess grandmaster Alireza is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2800 and showcased his proficiency during the […]<\/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-49440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49440","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=49440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}