xQc stuns chess Grandmaster Hikaru with epic opening blunder xQc\/GMHikaruFelix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel was one of the big streamers to enter the Twitch PogChamps Chess tournament, but his run was cut short after a disastrous opening that led to a lightning-fast checkmate and made commentators speechless. Chess, one of the oldest board games in the world, has become increasingly popular on Twitch lately. Popular personalities like xQc have been playing it on stream, and Grandmaster Hikaru \u2018GMhikaru\u2019 Nakamura has even seen success with his informative streams from players trying to learn the game. During the opening rounds of the $50,000 PogChamps Twitch Chess tournament, xQc put his skills to the test against Charlie White (AKA penguinz0, moistcr1tikal) and the results left Hikaru dumbfounded. xQc began with a \u201cScotch Opening\u201d which gives White control of the center of the board early, but it can also backfire and allow Black to counter very easily, which is just what moistcr1tikal did. \u201cNo please don\u2019t, it\u2019s too soon Hikaru, we didn\u2019t eve reach a climax,\u201d WFM Alexandra Botez lamented, while Hikaru just watched speechless as Cr1tikal finished off Felix. \u201cYou know when I said it would be fun to see a checkmate in four earlier? I was joking, it wasn\u2019t real.\u201d Cr1tical explained how he was ready for xQc\u2019s Scotch open based on advice, and with xQc\u2019s blunder of moving his Knight from d4 to c6, thereby leaving the diagonal route to the White King wide open for the Black Bishop. \u201cxQc will likely go with a Scotch open, and he did, so I had to counterplay,\u201d Charlie explained. \u201cAnd he immediately blundered. Well, that\u2019s gotta be a world record.\u201d \u201cOk, I\u2019m done, really dude?\u201d xQc said after the stunning defeat. Hopefully, Felix doesn\u2019t give up on chess entirely though, as he is entertaining to watch, even with the blunders. Timestamp at 7:38 for mobile viewers. If you\u2019re still looking to satisfy your Chess cravings on Twitch, you\u2019re in luck, because the PogChamps tournament runs through Sunday, June 14. Even though xQc isn\u2019t in the running anymore, maybe you\u2019ll still be able to pick up on some strategies as you watch to help you avoid a similar fate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
xQc stuns chess Grandmaster Hikaru with epic opening blunder xQc\/GMHikaruFelix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel was one of the big streamers to enter the Twitch PogChamps Chess tournament, but his run was cut short after a disastrous opening that led to a lightning-fast checkmate and made commentators speechless. Chess, one of the oldest board games in the world, […]<\/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-65538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65538","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=65538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}