Can Hikaru Hillbilly his way to 2800? Find out in Tricks Only 30

[@QK5364]

hikaru: *plays tricks only* also Hikaru: this is a bit tricky

[@SchneiderOSRS]

I have never felt so gaslighted in my life more than Hikaru saying the pawns are the same size

[@Iakosa]

Pieces on dark squares look smaller, but it's just an optical illusion. The black outline is not well seen on dark squares.

[@kudryavkanoumi5556]

@@Iakosa I thought of that as well, but on some games u can see the white pawn on dark squares looks bigger than white pawn on white squares

[@kudryavkanoumi5556]

@@Iakosa on other times it's other way around.. Way to check it as well is to check the knight size when hikaru mentions it, it really has a tiny variation in sizes

[@supC_]

@@Iakosa I thought it was that too at first, but same color pieces on same colored squares are also different sizes at several points. Look at the space below a piece from the bottom of the square and it’s really obvious. Edit: Look especially at the C-pawn at 18:21. It’s obviously smaller than the other light-squared pawns.

[@petergriffin8767]

@@Iakosa No it's not. When he clicks on them they get bigger. Try it yourself with arcade animations. It's very, very clear, not sure how you can think it's an optical illusion.

[@jopan1026]

The pieces are different sizes because the devs don't reset the piece sizes when you unhover a piece. While hovered, the pieces pulsate (change sizes) and when unhovered it simply leaves the size where it left off rather than resetting.

[@ollivier75]

Hikaru, i made a screenshot and checked the size of the pawns and bishops with photoshop, there are some smaller ones, it's not just an impression or the effect of drugs.

[@pure2291]

actively simping for Hikaru for going through that much effort

[@incogn8iv]

I kicked how hik answered the question "do u eat salads everyday?" With the answer "sometimes" lol 😆

[@exyijgfft3883]

*hik*

[@rr.studios]

​@@exyijgfft3883The parasocial relationship is strong with this one

[@deathpacito290]

The one time I would like to see an evans gambit.

[@evanmeany7646]

Please

[@zapataboy9377]

He already probably finished the challenge on twitch

[@alternateimmaster2213]

@@zapataboy9377 no he's at 2887 rn

[@Waleed-fj9hb]

Its not really a trick.

[@QK5364]

it is a legitimate opening tho

[@william7yifans]

the greatest era known to humanity: super GMs saying "you know what I eat everyday? how about Deez Nuts" while streaming to pepegas

[@thebishopchess]

I’m still recovering from the Bongcloud speedrun and here Hikaru is in the 2700s

[@Goekmoot]

he did another speedrun between it even

[@Austin-hm6qq]

You can just take a screenshot and draw lines across the pieces. It's not an illusion, they're actually different sizes lol

[@Zomiecrafter]

Imagine if other board games had dedicated players like chess. Getting on twitch to watch someone play risk or monopoly for 10 hours a day lmao

[@caralho5237]

Luck based games cant be as competitive

[@walterwhite210]

There is no skill in hopping to get 6 or 1 on dice

[@iBePancakez]

some pawns appear bigger because of the piece animation Hikaru is using. When you select a piece that piece has a pulse animation cycling from slightly larger to smaller to give a pulsing illusion. When you drop a piece the animation freezes. So if the piece is placed while it's on the larger part of the pulse animation it becomes frozen as "large". That's why it some pawns look larger at times.

[@DhruvaSagar]

If you look at the base of the g pawn, you notice it is slightly lower than the f pawn, it does appear to be slightly bigger, I think it's something to do with the animations

[@soultouch08]

No they're the exact same size

[@Jake_Hamlin]

4:15 Good to see a 2600 making similar mistakes to me

[@albericponcedeleon2696]

Seeing SuperGMs make those mistakes in the Chess Pro League video is even better.

[@Jake_Hamlin]

@@albericponcedeleon2696 yeah was refreshing, the More GMHikaru channel is full of that kinda gold

[@khangdaniellam3511]

I swear some of the pawns were GIANT

[@Jake-iw7id]

You should do a new speed run where you get 20 moves or so to checkmate and if not you resign, see if you could get 2000+

[@allangumiran8327]

This is actually a good idea. Or maybe put it under 40 moves so that he can speedrun to 3000 elo. 20 moves is just too low.

[@Luminous13]

Imagine being a Grandmaster, having dedicate tons of your time in studying chess since you were a child, only to get tilted you lost a random blitz game and time stall the whole clock LOL.

[@YummyCore]

no way that g pawn is the same size

[@elliotbaker5416]

21:06 I do agree that the b and h pawns look smaller, but when hikaru plays h3 the h pawn grows

[@EliteCubingAlliance]

19:08 oh they werent lying about the g pawn

[@Swedenhater2]

Teacher: You can't hear images Me: *pulls out hikaru tricks only speedrun intro*

[@kaidoChess]

5:25 howd he get matched with a 1262???

[@CoM_tE]

27:01 I mean..... that's one THROBBING rook

[@krileym]

holy ELO disparity in the second match wtf! great stuff as usual

[@qasimsikander3419]

Not Hikaru gaslighting chat the entire time lol

[@oraz.]

20:00 the g pawn definitely looks bigger than the c pawn.

[@a_rush]

'My juicer is bigger than your's'

[@arkatkarvarad6901]

We need pineapple shirt guy speedrunning to 3.5k

[@teenbull2907]

The older videos have way better edited pictures in the intro!! The real ones suit more than the animated ones imo

[@Lunehardt]

The drawing is probably fanmade, a lot of streamers use fanmade stuff for their thumbnails

[@Nico-si1bo]

He overlaps the small pawn with the bigger one but he needs to overlap the big pawn with the small one

[@dmitry8179]

Thank you! I was triggered by this the whole video

[@oraz.]

20:50 the e knight definitely looks bigger.

[@chadhenry1583]

Dude you’re not tripping. Some of those pawns are bigger than others

[@JamesMurphy1984]

Jonathan Hawkins became a GM in his 30s. You’re never too young.

[@hurricane999anon4]

White's rook was bigger than blacks rook when blacks rook was on the A file. A few pixels were condensed to make the numbers on the file fit in the square better.

[@candiceferb910]

He plays like hes not really thinking 😭

[@cryptocoinkiwi8272]

When he looks up to the right and thinks. I always wonder what the heck he is thinking to come up with a specific move. Decades of experience probably helps

[@trivikramkulkarni6393]

2:06

[@animesock1671]

I don't think I can ever unsee the differing sizes of the chess pieces.

[@yuriys5642]

No joke but that black night was bigger than the other

[@tiger_would4419]

The key with Hawaiian pizza is to use pepperoni not Canadian bacon. Game changer

[@JaxonHaxon]

The White Pawns are bigger on the White Squares, my opinion is that they have a different models for different colours, like the white on white is the standard size and the different board colour changes it.

[@supC_]

It’s not the square color. At 18:21 the C-pawn is clearly smaller than the A,E and G pawns despite all of them being on light squares.

[@MrYenwah118]

I was actually beginning to think if I was on drugs

[@tokudayo]

2:07 HOW BOUT DEEZ NUTS

[@mateibocancios]

SOME PIECES ARE CLEARLY BIGGER

[@hurricane999anon4]

Every game, Hikaru makes a "movie" it has people places things an entire storyline... the game that is. Then he robs you blind in 2 moves at the end. I'm gonna call these games out right here, as something special... some big time psychology going on in these positions. It's as if Hikaru knows from move 7 that between moves 20-30 he has to force your queen away from the defense of a corner that will make a -3 position from move 6 work. Just to let you know on move 4 of a chess game there are 400 different positions. By move 6, 17,000.

[@voxelsilk8462]

If that 1540 guy was prepared against those moves he could have had a chance to beat Hikaru

[@walterwhite210]

No chance lol

[@ab2tall]

Might be a dumb question… why does he cannibalize some of his own pieces? What does that do?

[@WhatDoYouMemeSir]

I had to pause the video and comment that the two knights actual look like they’re different sizes. I kid you not.

[@GWT_A]

I would say Hikaru choose the right editor or otherwise the right editor came to Hikaru

[@GeorgeDCowley]

4:30 You didn't fork the rook and pawn? 16:40 You could have forked the rook and Queen.

[@luvsscii7871]

The ponds are different sizes but it’s really an optical illusion. It’s because when the ponds are on white they look bigger when they on dark squares they look smaller. The same with the bishops and the knight, queens etc

[@99growlithe99]

At 26:03 look at the A6 pawn vs the G6 pawn. They’re different sizes despite being on the same colored square.

[@unforeseen1000]

it was the funnies chess matches I have ever seen..... LMAF..... pieces are not the same in size, but hik not believing that makes it really funny

[@alanschwartz8240]

bruh the g pawn is actually bigger wtf

[@hurricane999anon4]

My pawn is the biggest.

[@BobTheSlayer333]

The G pawn seriously looks bigger lmfao

[@flippert0]

19:50 g-pawn really is bigger than the others. Why?

[@saneernavab2531]

Also the d pawn

[@roiaknin123]

The knights really aren’t the same size, also the pawns on the dark squars are smaller

[@StevenSenjaya]

Hikaru could do anything and be hillarious

[@jakemcintyre6558]

Hikaru missed Nd5 at 15:50.

[@YevdokymovMaksym]

Please tell me how to make such an animation like Hikaru's after each move

[@JMUDoc]

19:20 - the g-pawn IS bigger, Hikaru🤣 And so is the a-pawn.

[@a-pr0rename373]

Yor thumbnails are the best on KZbin 👍

[@b0obross392]

Very comforting to know that in understanding memes and comparing pawn sizes I'm definitely better than Hikaru.

[@RyxnPS]

I wish, he knows what he’s doing😂 Does it on purpose for the comments

[@b0obross392]

@@RyxnPS To be honest, I suspect that. He always a few steps ahead me. Damn.

[@emtennguyrn1503]

hikaru is one of the best here.. he makes funny jokes and he plays good games

[@ambition221]

I love you Hikaru and I really respect you when you quit from guy from Israel at 4:43. All of us will not forget this. Thanks 🙏

[@gemik]

Poor guy 5:30 x) That was rough

[@albertjohnson1944]

For real though why are some pieces larger?

[@venkatanripesh1721]

hikaru , some pawns are really bigger

[@shcottam]

Hikaru is trolling chat hard it's way to obvious the peices are different sizes!

[@devenhamlin7179]

Can you do this for bullet?

[@JackRule16]

Can Hikaru's editor keep coming up with fire thumbnails? That is the real question

[@Deucely]

So, for anyone who still doubts his reality, all you gotta do is look under each pieces for the amount of space there, the ones that are in fact bigger have less space underneath. It isn't simply an optical illusion about the white on white making it looks smaller. Also: lmfao.

[@Jj82op]

There has been larger pieces than others since the beginning, how is it that only now most people notice it. I'm pretty sure Hikaru also knew for a while and he did say he could see it at the end. I think it's because of the animations, I don't what people are saying about the different colored squares lol.

[@ichbin1984]

I measured it. The pawns and bishop were actually bigger. Rest was fine.

[@MikeKing001]

the knights are definitely not the same size. look at the pixels from the bottom of the piece to the bottom of the square. There is a noticeable difference.

[@Themiguelfonseca]

yea a 1262 is an insult even for tricks only 😵‍💫

[@colegieseking5136]

I’m confused did Hikaru really think the pieces were the same size or was he trolling us?

[@cobrasums]

Trolling

[@dethbygaming]

I honestly can't tell if he was trolling with the "pieces are the same size" line. It feels like he is, like he knows there's some setting that does this, but I know for a fact that the pieces are different sizes at the start of the match before he's even clicked anything because I took a screenshot and used the line tool to make sure. Some of the pieces are just consistently bigger than others and I cannot unsee it.

[@CardenFilms]

He's trolling. It's been brought up many times and they figured it out on stream a while back. When you select a piece it does a "pulse" animation. The size depends on when you release the mouse click.

[@noah1502]

hikaru gaslight era

[@domenicozaza192]

the g-pawn is actually bigger lol

[@habbie__]

dietz nuts aren't nut nuts, they're *meat* nuts

[@brawldude2656]

That G pawn is really huge.

[@lred1383]

All the pieces are different sizes, fully randomized. Perfect for trolling and gaslighting viewers

[@robinsvanstrom8616]

the pawns where not the same size the piezes on the black squares were smaller and u can actually seet the gap between the squares bottom line and the bottom of the piece its smaller on the lightsquares than on the black squares.

[@beilkster]

The white pieces have a black outline is hidden on the purple background giving the apparent of larger on white squares when you include the outline in the object size

[@supC_]

It has nothing to do with the square colors. Look at the C-pawn at 18:21 and compare it to the other light-square pawns.

[@kulkidspin7691]

accusing everyone of cheating speedrun

[@glenndiddy]

People run the clock on ne all the time. It's so annoying when they run 60-70% of their clock to timeout instead of resigning.

[@snookerchessfanchun3499]

Did you sell ethereum before its dump

[@russellallan8442]

@4.27 - that guy cant be 2600 just letting you take the rook like that

[@ashtonlabelle593]

I don’t get how he took his pon at 2:50

[@NowBringIt]

why are the pawns different sizes? lol

[@xoby]

some pieces are really bigger than others

[@Kris-hk6wd]

Believe it or not I'm legit doing that intro dance

[@kevslinger]

Hikaru you are an OG thanks for the stream. Take the juicer!!

[@rsleepy255]

The chess pieces are smaller 😦

[@monahengramokhoro]

Intro song?

[@m.ab.saleemi]

THEY ARE BIGGER LOOK AT THE REMAJNIGN SPACE IN THE SQUARE

[@arno_grnfld455]

Hikaru eating deez nutz

[@omarlabbad8799]

some pieces are actually bigger than the others idk how he doesn't see them

[@supC_]

He does, he was trolling.

[@certifiablyelitist9333]

G pawn is definitely bigger smh

[@randomguypoopypapa8988]

the g pawn is one pixel down and one or two pixels up lol

[@farrowcs]

Wait some of the pawns are actually bigger then the others 🤣

[@botjarold]

Bring back old intro

[@gmf5348]

Thanks Hikaru sir for this video. It's like grabbing juicer for us ❤️❤️❤️❤️🎉👍