Hikaru criticizes Andrea Botez for making jokes at World Chess Championship Twitch\/Chess\/Instagram\/itsandreabotezTwitch chess sensation Andrea Botez is under fire from GM Hikaru Nakamura for asking a joke question to competitors at the World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi. Andrea, along with her older sister Alexandra, has been touring the world as part of a big international tour that brought them from England and France to Norway and now Dubai. Their Dubai trip had the Botez sisters make their way into the World Chess Championship with Andrea able to ask questions at the post-match press conference. Unfortunately for Andrea, not everyone was pleased with her line of questioning, as GM Hikaru called her out during his Twitch stream. Botez asks joke question at World Chess Championship After waiting in line to speak and letting the two competitors answer some serious chess questions, Andrea got on the microphone \u201creporting\u201d from her BotezLive channel. \u201cHello, Ian and Magnus, great game today. Another draw, who would have guessed?\u201d she rhetorically asked. \u201cI bet you\u2019re really tired of getting a lot of really complicated chess questions. But, I\u2019ve been dying to ask you, how does the Knight move?\u201d For his part, Magnus cracked a soft smile and gave a serious answer to her \u201cgood\u201d question, explaining that the piece moves like an \u201cL\u201d and remarked how it can be unpredictable in Blitz games. With that, Andrea sat down with her chat in awe that she actually asked such a bizarre question at a serious event. However, the comment was also a bit of an inside joke between the two as earlier in 2021, Magnus explained to the sisters how the Knight moves. Hikaru slams Botez for joke question for Magnus Carlsen GM Hikaru wasn\u2019t too pleased with the comment and addressed it on stream, stating how while he understands doing things for content, there are still limits. \u201cI\u2019m going to be honest, in a world championship match, that should not happen,\u201d he said. \u201cJoking aside, it\u2019s one thing to make content, but for a world championship press conference, the most serious event that we have in the chess world, that should not be happening.\u201d While Hikaru even commented on how his criticism could start some drama within the community, he doubled down, yet again reiterating how that question \u201cshould not happen.\u201d I want to say THANK YOU to @itsandreabotez for asking Magnus Carlsen how the knight moves at the press conference today. Now we will have several good days of chess drama content between people who are mad and people who don\u2019t care. \u2014 GothamChess (@GothamChess) December 1, 2021 Despite Hikaru\u2019s concerns, other big names, such as GothamChess, issued a \u201cthank you\u201d to Andrea on Twitter for providing \u201cseveral good days of chess drama content between people who are mad and people who don\u2019t care.\u201d So far, neither Alexandra or Andrea have addressed Hikaru\u2019s concerns, but they did retweet GothamChess\u2019s remarks, suggesting they are fully aware of his criticisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hikaru criticizes Andrea Botez for making jokes at World Chess Championship Twitch\/Chess\/Instagram\/itsandreabotezTwitch chess sensation Andrea Botez is under fire from GM Hikaru Nakamura for asking a joke question to competitors at the World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi. Andrea, along with her older sister Alexandra, has been touring the world as part […]<\/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-49640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49640","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=49640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}