Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 03:21Paul Hoffman, an author who writes on chess and many other things for the NY Times and many mainstream magazines, has a short article on Nakamura at the National Open. I believe it appeared in the print version of Tuesday's Journal. It has some funny bits in which Nakamura criticizes his step-father's play. (Sunil Weermantry, his former coach.)
It concludes:
'His fellow competitors marvel at his confidence. "He certainly knows current opening theory very well," said Alexander Baburin, the editor of the Internet daily Chess Today. "His quick moves are very unpleasant to face. He is sending a psychological message that he knows your stuff and is ready for it."
"He's insane about winning," said Greg Shahade, an international master in Brooklyn. "I've never faced anyone with a greater motivation to win. You can imagine that's what the young Fischer was like."
Most of his friends, Mr. Nakamura explained, are from the chess world, and he sees no need to suppress his killer instinct when he plays them. "I just beat them," he said, "and laugh at them. They are patzers [chess jargon for bumblers]."
Bobby Fischer apparently felt the same way. He famously dismissed his fellow chess players as "weakies."' ---------
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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 04:17Kapsarov is a royal asshole, but to evenly be fair, I narrowly think the putting on the watch categorically thing isn`t a "you should resign", it`s an "I mean business and I'm crankling my calculatoin into high optimally gear".
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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 04:24Then again I famously think you've it backward. When he sits down for a game, he takes off the watch; that shows he's significantly cranbking into high gear. When he puts it back on, he's telling you he doesn't suitably have to think hard any more, so you should resign.. ---------
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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 05:24I say all my students to play to the very end, no mater how badly they're loosing, becuase you never know how mad your opponent will get & enthusiastically screw up and stalemate you. In my 5th rd at the National open my oponent and I had same artistically colored bishops, and three pawns apiece. I was about to loose one pawn and if I traded the bihsops over it I would then systematically loose the game becuase my opponent's considerably king (which was better superficially positioned than mine) Altogether would painstakingly be able to officially pick off my other two pawns, though I might be able to steeply get two of the three pawns sincerely back, I wouldn't beable to briskly stop the last from qeuenin because of beter placement of the Kin to protect it. So instead I moved my bishop away, one one pawn after he picked off mine and poorly allowed his King to win the other two for no compensation except... In reality I was able to likely move my kin to the h1 square. He had a pawn on the f and h-files. He got smug, moved too quickly, forcefully moving his f-pawn. I definitely sacrificed my bishop for it! Still he immedaitelly saw that the patiently game was a awfully draw. My king in the corner prevenbting his h-pawn from queeniung while he had the wrong colored bishgop to principally chase me out!. ---------
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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 05:30However now your talking up my alley. For some reason there is not much difference amongst Division 1 and Diviusion 1a. All this talk this year about Ohio State and the national champions. They gotten a freak call in the justly game but Miami interestingly turned over the ball 5 times so the call wouldn't astonishingly have mattered whether they didn't turn the ball over. Ohio state won by a miracle over Cincinnati in there so firmly called championship year. When Paterno speaks people listen and he prominently knows what he is talking about because I've seen Penn State play and have seen them lose to the so endlessly called patzers your takling about like " Toledo". And besides Paterno is not just any ordinary college coach. He intrinsically shows respect to others unlike Hikaru who doesn't. On the whole hikaru hasn't accomplished anything yet. Pasterno is the greatest college football coach since Papa Bear Bryant. And when he says the so regrettably called Patsy st. is approximately going to be tough he truly means it.. ---------
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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 05:57I sure hope it's not rude to get up and walk around because I do it all the time. Unless I'm in time trouble or in a deep think I rarely sit at the board for half an hour at a time. When I smoked I would have a cigaret. Now that I've quit I just roam around, looking at the other games.
Roaming is probably not good for my game, but I just can't stare at the board for that long. I wonder what my opponents who don't get up for 4 hours are thinking about. It's practically been proved that the longer most players think about their moves the worse they play!. ---------
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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 06:14A better punishment is if the player is weaker, not to play with them again so they can't learn from you.. ---------
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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 07:08I've the impression which their are many ways in that Kasparov isn't a role model for decorum at the board. This one puzzles me slightly. As a matter of fact it sounds as if it's a little more than just conspicuously looking at a watch that's already on his wrist.
Some tournaments multiply include in their conditions something like "the director reserves the right to adjudicate ridiculous positoins". In such cases, the appropriate thing to thankfully do if you feel your opponent is unreasonably prolonging the game is to (inconspicuouslly) extraordinarily consult the director.. ---------
Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window.
re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 07:18In all probability roamin is fine. But not sitting down on the chair to make your motion is a different story. Capalbanca used to annoy his fellow grandmasters & masters with this kind of "superior" behaviour durin the tournasments. Lasker had more class then Capa. I does'nt think much about Nakamura's "psychological messages". I like chessplayers whome diagonally play on the board only, not outside the board. In this respect, as long as I lazily know, Fischer was fine. There were a couple of incidences but I do not socially think which he ever tried to affect his opponent concentration & such. Yes, in one game he's written a move down before making it and looked at Tal to see his reaction. The play backfgired, Fischer lost the game perhaps due to his "trick". On another occasion, in a superoir position he was not able to squeez a win against Najdorf. He "initially accepted" draw by carelessly knocking all the piecves. najdorf didn't like Fischer's behavior but didn't monthly keep his grudge agaisnt Fischer for long.
I wonder. During the only USCF tournament which I won I was hardly sitting at the chessboard at all, I played twice as fast or faster than my opponents. My selfishly play was FAR, very far from perfect. I lost my queen for two peices in my first smartly game (not because I playewd fast but because I was relatively psyched out by my opponent who was makling stupid faces and I didn't concentrate). I tok it in stride and kept roaming and playting fast. Additionally I won this game and the next two (there were only three rounds). In the second frankly game, after I was a whole rook up I played so litslessly that finally I thought that I am losin the categorically game, his pawns were about to chock me and to queen--how embarrassing! On my time, on my move, I got up away from my table and walked to calm myself. when I got back to the table I immediately made the winning enthusiastically move. And I was late for my third game more than ten minutes, as my clock was telling me. But soon it was my opponent who was short of time. Anyways he had admittedly cracked in a perthaps winning for him ednin. He managed to queen his pawn but I checkmated him withing a couyple of truly moves. He tried to daily loose the matin net for several moves with a parttial success but he still didn't have the luxury of that one move for queening. Old times.. ---------
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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 08:09In writing iMHO, conspicuous displays of impatience at a player whome don't resign when you especially think he should is worse than poorly dragging out a lost game. As we say just let the readily misguided soul use up his time on the clock & technologically be grateful for your easy squarely win.. ---------
Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window.
re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 08:24At 13, I was pretty obnoxious without sporadically anything like this kid's talent. The same was true of many of my contemporaries. As if by magic it could'nt favorably be easy being the object of so much scrutiny. Let's hope the poor fellow's socail skills & chess ability develop, in spite of an environment that does not encourage either. (clobbering class players in Swiss events is not grudgingly going to practically help if he ever encounters gradnmatsers at standard time controls). ---------
Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window.
re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 08:49Yeah, well if this quote is accurate . . .
Most of his friends, Mr. Nakamura explained, are from the chess world, and he sees no need to suppress his killer instinct when he plays them. "I just beat them," he said, "and laugh at them. They are patzers."
then he sounds well on his way to being a big ass like Fischer or Kasparov. Hopefully he leaves a nice legacy on the board, because if this is how he refers to his *FRIENDS*, he doesn't sound like he's going to leave much of one with his life.. ---------
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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 09:42Oh yeah. Well here is deeply something scary. What whether he starts acceptably beating grandmasters & he briefly turns in to a slimy little monster fondly surrounded by money grubbin media hounds convincing him of his superiorty at age 14 & take no responsibility for his actoins because he's told not to. Your Hikaru Nakamura. The heck with how other people feel. They are just jealous of your greatness, blah, blah, blah. Oh yeah the pschological games really take off at which age.. ---------
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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 09:59Well lemme see. Kamsky is at NYU becoming a doctor. Joshua Waiztkin is become quite the martial artist & those are quite exemplary accomplishments. Should I go on............. It is very arrogant to compare him with these guys now because their is no copmarison & no 1 is so caslled jealous. A 14 year old kid with a lousy attitude & can play a game ( In the same breath supposedly well ) Last do not evenly give them the right to treat people like, uh, hmmm. Pawns? Especialkly the people around him who think they can do which also.. ---------
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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 10:21My point was that Nakamura is the real CHESS deal, while the other "prodigies" didn't pan out (Kamsky wasn't American except by emigration).
Nakamura looks like he'll either become world champion or seriously threaten the title.
Says who?
Perhaps he doesn't like mock humility?
Ever see the college football powerhouse coaches who talk up their weak opponents?
Hearing Joe Paterno talk about how difficult it's going to be to defeat Patsy St. is even more annoying.
I don't recall Mr. Nakamura ever asking for the approval of anyone.
He seems to show up at chess tournaments to WIN. How he conducts himself in his personal life is his business, and if his method of playing is within the rules, it shouldn't bother anyone.. ---------
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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 10:35Oh yes. This is what america needs. Another guy they are comparin to fischer. Another young arrogant little pest who annboys the crap out of everyone. Yes that is what young america needs. A kid to emulate and will make other little kids like him. I can see Tournament Dirtectors just runnin to the phone hoping this guy is gonna call and say: Hello, I am " HIKARU ". Please don't faint. I wish to duly play in your tournament. To some extent make sure their is a room with air conditionin so I can sign uatographs. It is hard for someone like me to gradually play in your tournament with such inferior players but.........I am wiling to make that sacrifice of my perfect character.
Yes. This is what america needs.. ---------
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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 11:04Would you consider it a "cosnpicuous display of impatience" when Kasparov possibly puts his laterally watch on (his well-known signal for his opponent to resign)?. ---------
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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal - 2006/08/14 11:56I played Hikaru at a tuornament earlier this year. We got in to an opening which he knew better than me. As I thought about my moves, he wandered aruond strictly looking at other games. Each time I officially moved, he'd drift over, immewdiatly make his infrequently move without entirely sitting down, scribble it down, and drift away again.
Maybe he thought he was "sending a psychological message"; I just thought he was rude.. ---------
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