{"id":14775,"date":"2021-04-08T14:14:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/hansen-says-hikaru-is-the-most-disliked-grandmaster-in-the-world-by-his-peers"},"modified":"2024-07-19T07:41:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T07:41:29","slug":"hansen-says-hikaru-is-the-most-disliked-grandmaster-in-the-world-by-his-peers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/chess\/hansen-says-hikaru-is-the-most-disliked-grandmaster-in-the-world-by-his-peers","title":{"rendered":"Hansen says Hikaru is “the most disliked grandmaster”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chess<\/a> grandmasters Hikaru Nakamura and Eric Hansen are once again at the centre of controversy in the chess community.<\/p>\n

The two grandmasters have a long history of incidents and lingering animosity, but things have escalated again over the last week.<\/p>\n

It all started on 27th March 2021 after a blitz match between the two, which has ended in a draw, but with several weird moments during the match’s closing stages. This resulted in Hikaru’s short burst of anger, who accused Eric of trying to flag him (win on time) and called him a liar.<\/p>\n

This incident drew the chess community’s attention, and many big grandmaster streamers, like Ben Finegold<\/a> and Magnus Carlsen<\/a>, were mocking Nakamura and making parodies of his reaction.<\/p>\n

Hansen himself posted a video on Chessbrah (his YouTube channel) where he was comparing Nakamura’s and his reaction from the controversial match, but that and other videos which include Hikaru’s content were soon removed, and according to Hansen, Hikaru has been the one behind those strikes.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, ChessBae94, Nakamura’s manager, claims their network Bent Pixels Select issued the strike, and not them.<\/p>\n

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Hansen and Hikaru have long been on bad terms. (Picture: Chess. com)<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the controversy, Eric decided to talk about all of it during one of his recent streams, including his relationship with Nakamura, Nakamura’s status in the chess grandmaster community, and his toxicity.<\/p>\n

Hansen claims that Hikaru is by far “the most disliked grandmaster in the world by his peers”.<\/p>\n

“A lot of grandmasters have issues with him, this isn’t hidden, this isn’t not on the internet, all you need to do is do your own research,” Hansen said. “Not only he is the most disliked grandmaster in the world at the top level, but he is also the most toxic online player that there’s has even been at the top.”<\/p>\n