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The Candidates tourney is much than 3 months away, but Hikaru Nakamura has already started preparing for it. And the World No. 2 is determined to bid harder than helium did successful the past for the tourney that decides the challenger for the World chess champion.
He is truthful focussed, helium is adjacent going to sacrifice immoderate of his streaming. With much than 3 cardinal subscribers connected YouTube helium is 1 of the world’s astir fashionable chess streamers.
He adjacent enactment retired contented from present aft the archetypal circular of the Global Chess League, successful which helium is the Icon subordinate of the American Gambits.
He titled the video, ‘I americium a daddy and I played the World champ,” referring to his drawn crippled with D. Gukesh of PBG Alaskan Knights.
“I would accidental I person already started preparing for the Candidates astatine this constituent successful time,” Nakamura said, soon aft beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave connected the apical committee successful the lucifer against upGrad Mumba Masters.
“It really has precise small to bash with having a child, but what I would accidental is that determination are a mates of precise large differences versus the past. When I look astatine the candidates successful 2022 oregon 2024, I was inactive streaming a batch much than I presently am.”
He feels it is going to beryllium an breathtaking Candidates, to beryllium held successful Cyprus successful March to April adjacent year. “I americium looking guardant to it,” helium said. “It should beryllium a large event, and it volition beryllium truly breathtaking with each the beardown players competing.”
This is Nakamura’s 2nd Global Chess League. “It is large to spot the lawsuit happening present successful India,” helium said.
“I didn’t play the archetypal variation successful Dubai, which I didn’t vie in. I played successful London past year, and I was ever wondering wherefore it hadn’t been held successful India yet. I deliberation that India, without a doubt, if I look into the aboriginal beyond the adjacent mates of years, is decidedly going to beryllium the hub oregon the centre of satellite chess.”
(The writer is successful Mumbai astatine the invitation of Tech Mahindra)
