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Magnus Carlsen - Hikaru Nakamura blitz match Thur 27th Oct
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:53 pm
by Paul Cooksey
Lots of online promotion for the final of the chess.com #Blitzbattle series, but I thought I'd mention it in case anyone had managed to miss the announcement. 6pm uk time tomorrow.
Preview:
https://www.chess.com/article/view/7-re ... -next-week
I am certainly looking forward to it.
Re: Magnus Carlsen - Hikaru Nakamura blitz match Thur 27th Oct
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:13 pm
by Paul Cooksey
nightmare fischer random start for Magnus
Re: Magnus Carlsen - Hikaru Nakamura blitz match Thur 27th Oct
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:25 pm
by Joshua Gibbs
Re: Magnus Carlsen - Hikaru Nakamura blitz match Thur 27th Oct
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 1:00 pm
by Barry Sandercock
Magnus won the match brilliantly.
Re: Magnus Carlsen - Hikaru Nakamura blitz match Thur 27th Oct
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 2:04 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
All the Naka fanboys who claimed that Magnus was cruisin' for a bruisin' - lets hear you
Re: Magnus Carlsen - Hikaru Nakamura blitz match Thur 27th Oct
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 6:55 pm
by John Brewitt
Yes, it was a bitter pill to swallow, even for the biased commentators. IM Daniel Rensch seemed to be in denial, to the very end.
Re: Magnus Carlsen - Hikaru Nakamura blitz match Thur 27th Oct
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2016 3:17 am
by Joshua Gibbs
Re: Magnus Carlsen - Hikaru Nakamura blitz match Thur 27th Oct
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 6:22 pm
by Ian Thompson
chess.com are claiming what seem to me to be very high viewing figures.
chess.com wrote:At some point, the match was the #3 watched show on Twitch.tv, the leading website for gaming and e-sports. A total of 183,000 unique viewers watched the show, and the hashtag #BlitzBattle was trending.
Re: Magnus Carlsen - Hikaru Nakamura blitz match Thur 27th Oct
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 6:42 pm
by Roger de Coverly
If 183,000 is thought to be larger than plausible, what does it say about the 600,000,000 players claimed by FIDE, Agon and others?
