Hikaru Faces a CHEATER in Tricks Only 31!!

[@Justin-qe6gj]

23:40 game with cheater.

[@Thekillertastic]

Thank you, kind sir

[@benjaminsoo8500]

thanks

[@anonymous-lx6kt]

Thnx

[@samuelšellei]

Tnx

[@John_NYT]

Not all heroes wear capes

[@Dan_Hess]

Someone in his chat pointed out what's going on with the pieces and they're right. With this animation, when you pick up a piece they grow... But when you let go it doesn't shrink back down. So every piece he touches grows, and obviously his opponents pieces are always smaller because he doesn't pick them up

[@renormal3732]

But white e and c pawn seems different sizes. Is like the Queens side pawn of white are bigger that his King side ones.

[@Dan_Hess]

@@renormal3732 I assume when you're looking is when he has touched those pawns (he doesn't even have to move them, clicking them "picks them up"). If you look at the very beginning of games though... They look all the same size to me

[@classyraindrop]

what’s ur pfp from?

[@Dan_Hess]

@@classyraindrop it's of Himeko Inaba from Kokoro Connect

[@user-ni6jd2wu5c]

How to do like Hikaru's pieces?

[@psyvoi3433]

So funny how much hikaru is laughing during this stream, absolutely love to see it. "You guys are trying to break me" 😂

[@phe123]

We

[@SkyIrony]

the best part it people were being serious about the pieces being different sizes and Hikaru thought chat was trolling him

[@HilbertXVI]

@Davor Miljkovic ???

[@fjxs]

Hikaru is laughing at chat but the pieces are actually different sizes

[@JunkBondTrader]

he finally notices at the end hah

[@mutinyonthekitkat]

Definitely.

[@ShabazzTBL]

He thinks they’re trying to trick him haha. He always does when people tell him stuff haha. You have to keep telling him for him to believe it.

[@patrickheart9390]

Because it's fake . No platform does this. He played himself . But he's brilliant player and super entertaining

[@fjxs]

@@patrickheart9390 Ah you caught him! Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura since the age of 15 who’s won numerous over the board tournaments against the best players in the world is wasting his useless time (because he’s only a multi-millionaire and stuff) streaming for hours on a fake platform. I can’t believe you’ve cracked the case! It’s a genius theory, can’t believe nobody’s thought of that sooner.

[@Chodestick]

Hikaru shouldn’t have mentioned the size of the c2 pawn, it looks huge in comparison to the f2 pawn and I can’t unsee it

[@AK-xe2ly]

Pieces being slightly different sizes is by design. It's for anti cheat. Throws the bots off.

[@Chodestick]

@@AK-xe2ly I have no idea what that means, how would Hikaru having a different design on his chess board have any effect on wether his opponent is cheating or not?

[@omardorgham]

@@Chodestick it has to do with bots overlays and what not, some bots just does the moves for you and when the pieces are not the same size the bot could glitch and screw the cheater up, or atleast thats my theory

[@rogg0224]

@@omardorgham but the cheater doesn't see the the pieces grow, does he?

[@levents6073]

@@AK-xe2ly Doesn't stop manual cheating

[@chauncyquest2779]

I just love watching Hikaru handle 2700’s like they are 700’s

[@chauncyquest2779]

@ maybe you are special too, but that is certainly not what a vast majority of players do.

[@Orignuplaying]

@@chauncyquest2779 well i once lose to a 101 while my rating is 113

[@TraumaIsGood]

Inshort dominating

[@samuelšellei]

@@Orignuplaying its literally the same rating

[@psychicspy1234]

Like 400s*

[@bohanwithb1546]

5:46 "The pieces are THROBBING" in the chat broke hikaru

[@creamrising]

This was randomly hilarious. I was dying laughing at the magical pieces that change size and throb.

[@DTLification]

It just poor programming

[@billjensen2810]

The throb comment broke me watching this 3 months later I did not see in chat someone just said “The e pawn is THROBBING”

[@ariesdane5876]

I was dying laughing too. I only wished someone in chat would have pointed out "They get bigger the faster you move them".

[@rassesse1293]

@@DTLification Nah i think it’s genius

[@JecIsBec]

Imagine hikarus in a rly intense over the board match and then just "hey I think ur pawn is a bit bigger"

[@Compassiron1]

I’ve watched these so much i now commentate on my own games like Hikaru ‘go here, hit the pawn’ … and blunder my queen

[@R0BERTMAY]

Hahah I played a game the other day and I was like I'm just gonna take the juicer (no idea what that means still) blundered the whole game!! 😅

[@evedoingthingsaaaaa]

@@R0BERTMAY A juicer can be whatever you want it to be

[@Compassiron1]

We’re all juicers

[@stevesteve788]

@@R0BERTMAY lol idk if ur serious but a juicer is just a free piece left unguarded u can take. Some use it as a high value piece ie take rook that's guarded with knight then lose knight. But losing knight for rook is like a free knight aka juicer

[@R0BERTMAY]

@@stevesteve788 haha yeah I was just making light! Hikaru is fun to watch and love his commentary on his games!

[@woodenwood8022]

People in 1880 : there will be a flying car on 2021 2021 human : Black bishop is LARGER than White Bisyop.

[@JacobsKrąnųg]

people in 1: there will be a flying car in 2021 2021 human : people in 1880 :

[@woodenwood8022]

@@JacobsKrąnųg Lmaooo

[@csgman5981]

At 6:07 on the left side of the board, I’m 100% sure that there is less space between the bottom and top of the square for the black knight than the white knight

[@luwunar]

11:00 "your c pawn is huge," hikaru said as he slipped his hand between magnus's pieces and smirked. "are you trying to mate me?" protests magnus as hikaru blushes. the boyish figure develops before magnus. "weak gambit play, hikaru." the two pushed their pawns and afterwards magnus infiltrated hikaru's center with his big black bishop.

[@madman7544]

Wtf dude 😂

[@rockyx_x]

Underrated, this shouldve gotten more likes

[@Fenix-sf7tg]

I love how @16:04 you blunder your queen and he makes a move not taking your queen then resigns the next move while your queen is still hanging to be blundered and to lose the game. I checked the chess engine at the same position just to see if I wasn't missing anything. It gave black mate in #14 or something and at depth 35 was -29.4. The opponent must have really thought the queen was untakeable or something.

[@vongolaxi927]

He won by timeout not resignation so at that point it didnt matter

his opponent had 1 sec on he clock, he hung the queen intentionally since there was no more time for the opponent to react.

[@Jartran72]

You really did not get this one huh.

[@diegotowery9021]

You got all the way to checking this position on a engine without realizing he lost by timeout... nice

[@chaeljr.1254]

The pieces clearly are different sizes I don't know how you could miss it? Look at the gap between the bottom and top of the pieces, and the square they are in...

[@FozcrazzyContente]

He was just being ironic dude lol

[@soultouch08]

It's called getting wooshed

[@JacobsKrąnųg]

@@FozcrazzyContente nope, he just missed that

[@JunkBondTrader]

yeah its a bug it seems. The pieces grow when you pick them up. They were supposed to shrink when you drop em.

[@jacobkleeman8546]

5:46 rare footage of Hikaru getting the meme

[@miguelbenavides9160]

I've faced too many tricksters like that 2600 who almost won, I truly thought he wasn't a cheater too

[@romaffka8539]

If he tells thats cheater - thats cheater.

[@rykehuss3435]

@@romaffka8539 Nope

[@bennottingham6228]

yeah luckily i’m not seeing too many cheaters at 1200 😂😂

[@DexTag]

You only need to check below the pieces how far they are away from the border of the squares and you instantly see that some are bigger than others.

[@sleepingboiz8155]

That’s literally what I did and then I verify it by seeing them next to each other and realizing how big they were to the ones, hikaru hasn’t touch

[@barrystevenyoung4818]

One of your eyes is redder than the other. You're always funniest when your eyes are slightly red.

[@pzr2681]

😮

[@johndo3164]

Are you suggesting he is high😜

[@reesem6411]

That cali life

[@barrystevenyoung4818]

@@johndo3164 I would never suggest that. But I've noticed that sometimes he's got that twinkle in his eye and he laughs like a school boy. Sometimes he seems to almost forget that he's playing. Time starts running low. "Got to move! Got to move!" hilarious. I think that's why he's so popular.

[@GrayCatbird1]

Clearly, that is his Mangekyou Sharingan.

[@nimbosoup]

"So this actually is quite complicated so I should focus" - proceeds to greedily eyeball chat waiting for another phallic joke to crack up at LMAO

[@SmileyTheFoot]

the actual reason some pieces are bigger than other is because those pieces are left over from the previous game, you can see when he checkmates or gets checkmated, the remaining pieces are bigger in the next game. 22:18 here you can see, in the last game there was only a black and white king with a white pawn, now the next game, the h pawn and both kings are bigger than usual, you can also go around other games to see it. Now why does it happen, I have no idea.

[@izerath001]

Some pawns are bigger, black bishop is bigger, the rooks on the right (both colors) are bigger than the left ones. A lot of weird stuff is happening there.

[@ahmedsandhu7]

15:06 Hikaru hangs the knight on f3, black is -7.7 here

[@mathwizard296]

Wow how did he not notice that guess he was just like ez flag

[@pagnedaman3777]

Why can't he take back with knight on d2

[@adiadiadi333]

@@pagnedaman3777 what knight on d2...that knight just moved to b3

[@moniktamang8891]

why not take the queen in 16:03??

[@davidegallo2185]

@@moniktamang8891 1 second on the clock

[@simoncleverly5107]

The black pieces are actually bigger than the white ones, excluding rooks. Kind of annoying how he won't just notice the size differencial.

[@danielbates1015]

Generally just watching the video now and u can notice straight away specially the bishops

[@nathanp6928]

They’re the same size, it’s just an illusion

[@AK-xe2ly]

@@nathanp6928 it's not an illusion. You can screenshot and see yourself. It's for anti cheat.

[@crypastesomemore8348]

@@AK-xe2ly no it’s not- it’s for anti-white. Same reason why all the ads on KZbin only feature black people since Floyd. Nice racism.

[@NernKat]

Watched this live, he was just trolling chat

[@ayoTUBBZ1]

Every time he gains his composure, his eyes glances over to the chat and then laughs again. That's why I laugh with him 🤣🤣🤣

[@e4e6mate96]

Ummm.. the c2, b2, and a2 pawns are definately bigger.. N, R, B also

[@sillysausage4549]

Nope. Try tilting your phone. Just an optical illusion

[@e4e6mate96]

@@sillysausage4549 try measuring the distance from the bottom of the piece and the bottom of the square and compare pieces... they are clearly different sizes.

[@davidmulligan7175]

@@sillysausage4549 if you look at the bottom of the pawn to end of it’s square, Some are bigger.

[@AK-xe2ly]

@@sillysausage4549 nope. It's not an illusion. It's by design to prevent bots cheating.

[@briangak8815]

@@AK-xe2ly yea they are bigger but how would that prevent cheating bots?

[@logval8019]

16:28 hikaru discovers the Danish Gambit

[@brimstonebrewery4413]

Your editor is one of the best I've seen these intros are awesome

[@pmadood6970]

There were several pieces that were different in size. Both sides had one rook that was bigger than the other.

[@Gaspa79]

Yeah I counted the pixels of the pieces, no question.

[@Chaos0498]

"The pieces after being touched are getting bigger." LMFAOOOOOO! 🤣

[@anirudhjagannathan5800]

I clicked on this video in the middle of school. When the intro started playing everyone stared at me wondering wtf was going on. It was very awkward trying to explain that I was watching Chess Grandmaster, Hikaru Nakamura’s 31st episode of his Tricks Only speedrun.

[@joketer34]

Holy shit ure so cool, so smart, so unique!

[@Jartran72]

@@joketer34 You must be very insecure to instantly attack someone like that. He just wrote a comment, no need to act like your still a disgusting high school kid with no confidence or self esteem.

[@Atsah]

@15:11 Hikaru is only now 95% likely to be a Multi-Core Neural Network after a serious out of character blunder. Due to the butterfly effect, the Doomsday clock moves to Midnight and the world ends.

[@redisthewaytogo4373]

6:03 "Poxnorakill: Message your opponent that your bishops are bigger"

[@Eh-cv5tt]

11:16 "How did you lose your Queen was so much bigger"

[@VT_kannagi]

Omg I can't breathe "everytime he touches his pieces they grow bigger" wow fucking wording.

[@GarrettEderer]

“You basically just need to have short term memory loss.” -Hikaru

[@Agitabodie]

I thought the pieces being bigger was a joke but it isn't! Look below the pieces and compare the distance between bottom of the square to the piece with its counterpart, and you will see it too!

[@thegrumpysalaryman585]

Dude can win high level chess games while laughing his ass off. What kind of sorcery is this

[@kmbm23]

11:43 funniest chat comment of them all LOOL

[@bendavidovich7237]

16:06 is that a hanging queen? either his opponents are paid, or this is some sort of a social experiment. I'm confused.

[@warehousedave7937]

"Just to be a little bit nasty." lol

[@goldenboypierre3284]

Can someone explain to me how Hikaru’s queen isn’t hanging on C5 at 16:08 and why the opponent resigned 2 moves later? I’m genuinely confused 😕

[@dielmanmandielman315]

It was hanging, his opponent lost on time.

[@lucashmm5302]

His queen was hanging. He was trying just to play moves to flag his opponent on time

[@davidgrandm453]

He did hang his queen. but the opponent had 2 seconds on the clock. He timed out, not resigned.

[@DJZemix92]

i think it was hanging, he didnt resign he ran out of time. probably just panic

[@goldenboypierre3284]

Oh his opponent ran out of time I completely missed that!

[@megadarthvader]

1:52 c7 and d6 are not the same size, and is not an ilusion because the 2 are in black.

[@mr0gan951]

no shit he is trolling

[@jadethronson9675]

Hikaru literally cannot contain himself after a pawn/penis joke. I love it

[@RedditSupport]

The pawns are different sizes. I took a screenshot, when into photoshop and measured the pixels. It’s not an illusion, I thought it was at first, but nope. Just measure them in photoshop and you’ll see. There are bigger pawns and smaller ones.

[@nathannguyen298]

thanks, god

[@RedditSupport]

@@nathannguyen298 you’re welcome my child

[@Eorzat]

You can also just look at the space between the pieces and the edges of the squares. Don’t need to use photoshop and count pixels although I guess it helps lol

[@JacobsKrąnųg]

this is because yt video compression

[@Mykl0000]

@@JacobsKrąnųg they slightly grow when they are picked up, there's a bug that doesn't reset the size hence the visual bug

[@Sir_Isaac_Newton_]

Imagine watching your match against Hikaru here and he says "He was actually winning here but he missed it" I would cry 😂

[@KillaDanny]

At 2:47 the black bishops are bigger than the white. You can see this by looking at how much of the square is left between the top of them and the top of the square. the black ones have less space in the square at the top than the white do therefore they are bigger in size.

[@KillaDanny]

u can use this method to see that most of the same pieces differ in size.

[@Benjamin-rm2nt]

Lmao 🤣 "touching the queen is treason!"

[@samyakhp4353]

18:42 why not Knight to b5 here? It opens up an attack on rook and at the same time threatens a fork on the next move (knight takes pawn to form king and rook).

[@skivvytv6229]

Can you imagine getting offered a draw by HIKARU NAKAMURA, DECLINING and getting mated immediately. I would be in the ground

[@Rexvivor]

I would be under the ground, in a coffin if I was them

[@berti7775]

15:09 knight on f3 is hanging or am I missing something?

[@ryansan7575]

wondering the same

[@KillnlootPK]

and then at 16:05 same game Hikaru plays the Botez Gambit. We're not missing anything Hikaru and his opponent sure did in that game though methinks lol

[@geometricart7851]

Naka gets so embarrassed when you start talking about anything remotely touching.... LMAO!

[@danielyuan9862]

2:51 Hikaru almost played the Botez Gambit

[@cathawk4628]

The “short term memory loss” mindset is great for any game. If you lose, go again and don’t forget your mistakes but don’t let it get you down. People are bound to make mistakes.

[@lerdi]

12:33 And just day after, Levy uploads a video about Grand Prix Attack

[@ArxxWyvnClaw]

16:07 why did black resign? And why did black not take white's hanging queen?

[@williamduncan7401]

Just look at 4:59 (starting position). Black's e, d, c, b pawns are bigger (for white only the a pawn is bigger). Both black rooks are bigger, white's a rook is also bigger. Black's c bishop is bigger then the f one, queen and king are bigger. It's just so obvious. You can see the padding beneath some pieces is just way less because they are bigger and it has nothing to do with what piece is moved or even touched. I'd say it's pretty random

[@JunkBondTrader]

well wehen you pick the pieces up, thats when they grow, normally, so the bug is related to that function.

[@EarlSmith2469]

@23:34 WOW. He really played F3 then G4. He's obviously not a GM. that guy hung fools mate.

[@bendavidovich7237]

15:11- that's a free night on f3! engine says it is -8.45!!! be critical about the positions!!

[@mathieuhenry2441]

it s not even a joke , i measured the 2 black bishops at 5:05 and one of them is really really bigger thn the other one , you re welcome

[@cursed5881]

0:29 got me dying bro

[@spiderjoe7681]

2:21 what happened to his horse it just blipped out of existence.

[@teohyuanhui]

Why didn't black go Bxf3 at 15:09?

[@TheChessGiant]

Offers a draw and then checkmates him on move 3? Bro making power moves out here.

[@predsfanmyrtlebeach4542]

Armageddon has the accent on the 3rd syllable. [ ahr-muh-ged-n ]

[@Lilly_by_choice]

2:25 but the black bishops are bigger.. just look at the gap to the top of the square at 5:20 the a2 pawn is bigger than the b2 pawn and the c2 pawn

[@L2ggs]

no you're just imagining things

[@Lilly_by_choice]

@@L2ggs click on my first time stamp, pause, than click on my second time stamp... (keep watching the b2 pawn)

[@Lilly_by_choice]

same with the bishop on f8

[@tylercobb8293]

Seeing you laugh with chat was great. I couldn't help laugh with you guys. I needed that soo much.

[@איתמרדואק-ת4ח]

16:04 wtf was that move?

[@ignaciocorto]

just right after a fool's mate, a cheater appears -- what a karma

[@Soeeasy]

Hey guys can anyone explain to me @16:05 why didn't black took the queen right after Hikaru played queen to C5?

[@shaneta4557]

I figured it out. He is flagging the opponent. The opponent has no time on his clock. Hikaru did it for the Cheese.

[@AAABeatbox]

16:03 did he just blunder his queen?? Someone help I'm notseeing this...

[@greetingsfromamsterdam4830]

I took a screenshot to the basement of the vatican library where I met an albino girl, and after sacrificing a goat to her she whispered the first conquistadors uncovered an Aztec tablet which predicted that in the final days before the great flood the f pawn would indeed be bigger . Hail Tezcatlipoca!

[@SilencedButNotForgotten]

They are right. When you pick a piece, it grows in size, but when you put it down, it remains that size.

[@overlordss]

Can someone explain why hikaru is winning and got the resignation at 16:08? It just looks like he hung his queen and has time lead and thats it

[@AndgaChannel]

Oh yeah i was confused too, he was not playing the game he was playing the clock at that point. The queen hanging i do it also when i want to fuck with the last seconds of the opponent. He didn't win by resignation, he won on time.

[@ayanabhomaitra591]

3:47 You had to take it with one of your pawns. There is no other way than that.

[@iplay9s]

1:10 why is the c2 pawn bigger though

[@Dragoninja1298]

Hikaru: I just blunder... what am I doing? Me: yeah.... so you made a small inaccuracy and even after explaining why it was bad, I still think it was good.

[@rodiko2]

It's crazy that engines can win a completely lost game

[@zerkvoltago]

I'm not very good but at 19:40 I feel like Knight D5 is a free bishop? Am I missing something?

[@TheWizardsOfOz]

Haven't heard you call the 'horses' as 'ponys' before this video. 😏

[@badbovine7427]

When he said "I'm trying not to break" I was expecting a blowup in the chat

[@mitchellingles4021]

Best intro I have ever seen on KZbin

[@ashystyle]

Why was this at 16:06 winning for Hikaru? Why did he leave?

[@cl4rkeyy]

I have the same question, didnt he hang his queen? Im confused EDIT: lol saw opponent had no time after writing this

[@t19563]

Just what are those board animations? Can someone please let me know?

[@snoopunit]

The pieces really are different sizes. If you look at the bottom of the board squares, you can notice extra space where the smaller pieces are compared to their bigger counterparts. What a weird way to make a game. Must be one hell of a bug.

[@DaKirk14]

Ahhh the pieces are ACTUALLY different sizes and I cannot unsee it. lmao

[@suokyo3805]

Hikaru played rook A7! He probably thinks " hey I wanna shoot him and be dangerous and kill him and win" and he probably thinks no draw attack The real Hikaru: wow my rook can move pretty far Brr brr

[@apolloj23]

The black bishops are larger. Actually a lot of pieces are different sizes. Cannot un-see. Also, Hikaru missed at least one loss in the scoring.

[@Potato-ko3oc]

the intro seems like youre about to watch an action movie 😂

[@joshuaguo1326]

15:09, what's wrong with Bxf3?

[@rasik1173]

16:10 I really don't understand this game why did opponent resign why black queen did not take c5 and take white queen please tell me some one

[@N4DB3N]

check the you won message on the board again ! ;)

[@user-wg7ut8vn3j]

this hikaru guy is good at chess but he is rated 200 in microphone volume

[@Ale-nx8cs]

I wanna see when hikaru figuers out that the Pieces were actually bigger🤣

[@doaa7941]

26:17 holy the a4 pawn is huge

[@ajaxmajor]

16:06 im losing my mind how is this winning for white lmao

[@laizerwoolf]

I'm also waiting for an explanation, white seems to hang a queen. But it's probably a trap to initiate a devastating attack.

[@laizerwoolf]

oh yeah, its a flag. whatever hikaru do, the opponent is low on time. lol. no complicated tactics whatsoever.

[@ajaxmajor]

@@laizerwoolf oh my god I didn't even see our think about the time I was actually going crazy. stockfish has it at -15 bc obviously the queen is just chillin okay I can sleep now

[@kaidoChess]

Makes me smile when Hikaru laughs

[@reesem6411]

Hikaru playing bong cloud, but not in chess

[@deputyvillageidiot]

The black pieces are definitely bigger, even pieces that haven’t been touched yet. Just look at the rooms on the white side and black side. It’s plainly visible to the eye.

[@yesicanhearyouclemfandango]

Absolutely loving these crazy intros. 🙂👌

[@cookiekilbane5989]

“I’m gonna eat the dead pony” When the memes go too far 🤣