Hikaru Nakamura's Most Brilliant Moves On Chess.com

Hikaru Nakamura (‪@GMHikaru‬) has played more than 40,000 games on Chess.com and thousands of brilliant chess moves! Here are five of our favorites as identified by Game Review.
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[@chess]

Happy birthday to @GMHikaru! For the PGNs and more moves, check our article here: www.chess.com/article/view/hikaru-nakamuras-brilliant-moves

[@notfortressplayzz2500]

hack opp😊

[@Circle-squared]

1 reply bruh

[@Juzevs]

did you guys try to copy levy's thumbnail style?

[@mancityp4472]

you know you're a pro when you have played more brilliant moves than you have missed wins xD

[@BlitzyYenAttacker3000]

@@Chris-bz9pg I feel like I'm missing a joke

[@mancityp4472]

@@Chris-bz9pg thats in bullet. In blitz like 5 sec earlier it is different

[@hutchmusician]

That really is an incredible stat to have.

[@comebackfailed6350]

now Im surprised that he has 2980 missed-win moves

[@Comorv]

@@comebackfailed6350 That´s becuase it counts when there is like mate in 30

[@Thelaretus]

I'm ashamed that sometimes I forget how good Hikaru is. He's one of the few people I can actually watch playing speed chess without being bored out, due to the beauty of his play. He deserves respect.

[@wesleyb1458]

Agreed! Watching him play blitz and bullet is so satisfying

[@renaldiroekanto789]

takes, takes, takes, takes.

[@stephenwalk2186]

It's too bad it doesn't translate over to classical.

[@amadeux5471]

@@stephenwalk2186 Hey he might not be the best but his classical rating is still top 20 in the world. I don't believe he'd stray away from that level too much when he starts playing again

[@self-righteousideologue9398]

Okay, Hikaru. You didn't have you to use a sock account to post this

[@CosmicAtmosphere]

These moves are the perfect example of why chess is also art. Beautiful. Happy birthday, Hikaru!

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Hikaru is one of the reasons why I got interested in Chess in the first place, he’s in a league of his own

[@dhruvyadav7715]

😂

[@gernil6216]

No way, didn't expect the legend himself likes chess

[@fichardreynman4944]

God dayum. Its you again. You are every where 👨

[@amistake850]

So how long have you played chess

[@rambo2667]

Grow a moustache and then maybe we can talk.

[@mastod0n1]

He plays the best move 43% of the time, and usually in blitz and bullet. Dude's a machine.

[@Nightmare-wo7ms]

Magnus, Hikaru and Vishy are gifted legends in chess.....my inspiration

[@dhruvyadav7715]

what gift

[@Nightmare-wo7ms]

@@dhruvyadav7715 🎂

[@TheAdarshMehta]

I do not like it when people take away other's people hard work by telling that those people are 'gifted'. They are legends, for sure, but gifted, who knows?

[@ManishSingh-jz2hx]

@@TheAdarshMehta Well, he was a very talented player when he was young; and he was the youngest US Champion too.

[@oacmd282]

@@TheAdarshMehta ‘gifted’ can mean simply talented imo, of course they aren’t trying to downplay their successes

[@definitelynotmeowzie5079]

These moves are not as hard to find if you know that there is something, but imagine finding something like this in a blitz game... Hikaru is an incredible player

[@pua5537]

Exactly

[@christopher19894]

Cool video idea. Hikaru plays a lot of brilliant blitz games that are worth deep analysis. The most inspiring ideas are found in the casual blitz matches between Hikaru and Naroditsky. Danya will drop a mental sac that seems to work... but then Hikaru finds the stockfish sequence that maintains the advantage.

[@allanrojas6470]

Dude's got more brilliant moves in blitzz than missed wins, unbelievable

[@fingertodd]

I have one guys. I just got my first brilliant move ever and was so happy.

[@XD_Ryan]

3000 more to go beat hikaru now

[@anjanathreya8306]

@@XD_Ryan Lmao

[@paulmorphy6187]

I saw number 2 in about 1 second but I was mentally prepared for there to be a beautiful move, if it was during a game maybe I wouldn't have got it...Naka must be just mentally prepared for beautiful moves 24/7 in his chess

[@matsschoef7133]

Yeah same

[@MelloProto]

1:40 Wow I actually saw this one pretty quickly. But in game when I’m not in puzzle mode, I’m not sure if I would.

[@ppmpyae1152]

I did not even know which color I was supposed to think for.

[@the20hunk]

@@ppmpyae1152 LMFAO

[@abb.4216]

The 3rd example is reminiscent of carlsen's game against karjakin in the final round of the world championship

[@praveenrawat6574]

Hikaru has actually done this before in 2003

[@BasedBowlCutEnjoyer]

His most recent brilliant move: accusing Hans of cheating.

[@RuyVuusen]

_When a man has over half a million best moves and over five thousand brilliant moves in blitz and bullet alone, you know you are not facing your average sigma male anymore..._

[@thad1296]

When you find all of these moves surprisingly quickly, but then realize you only found them becase you knew something crazy is in the position... Although bh3 may be findable during rapid

[@groovyman1330]

I played my first great move yesterday, and in the game I had 96% accuracy :D

[@Thiebelamberts]

And yum braine its on eggs

[@kabooby0]

Great content here! I would love to see more analyses on "brilliant" moves, esp. in world championship and other classical games.

[@WilsonColter]

Enjoyed watching some of these, although one small thing that would improve the vid: stating which color Hikaru is playing (or which color is next to move), prior to showing his move--that way, it would let lower rating chess viewers (like myself) pause the video and examine the position to see if they could find the right moves.

[@kerkertrandov459]

At 3:40 the best move is Qc8, over -1 score. Qc4 is 0.00 after Rd8 and Rh8

[@anjukumarufcmmaboxing6672]

Me calculating for 2 minutes : If Bishop takes knight, pawn takes pawn, ruk takes knight, queen takes pawn......... Meanwhile Hikaru in 5 seconds : "TAKES TAKES TAKES TAKES TAKES TAKES TAKES TAKES AND CHECKMATE".

[@northshores7319]

obviously the best player since Capa with the quickest sight of the board.

[@marszgee]

Happy Birthday Hikaru!

[@spr3ez]

Hikaru is just a genius!

[@whiskeyecho3523]

Awesome explanations, Sam!

[@trenek5943]

4th and 5th were fairly easy to see

[@essbee2052]

With this video I finally defined art as a combination of various actions and sequences to produce a unique outcome that can be replicated with precision

[@Patrick462]

Nice! This new feature will be a lot of fun to look at my games, as well as peep into Hikaru's games.

[@ih8stuff3]

Love the videos! Just a thought, include the yellow "moved-from" squares. Please. Thank you.

[@rambo2667]

Decent.

[@dhruvyadav7715]

that was 5 years ago 🤦‍♂️

[@pdfbanana]

even including openings, 18% of his moves (almost 1 in 5) in blitz were inaccuracies or worse. shows just how complicated chess really is even at super-GM level

[@julianbassk]

he loves his wonky openings and bongclouds tho. im sure he could get higher if he wanted to

[@john.dough.]

I'm sure the bongcloud opening doesn't help this

[@thatguy5233]

it's a blitz game tho... and from what i noticed he usually plays the shortest - 3min version... i think it's really low and insanely impressive. keep in mind that his opponents are insane too so it's A LOT harder to do correct moves than we (or I) when we play our games. i, for example, would probably have like 20% CORRECT moves vs them, *especially* in a 3 min game.

[@thatguy5233]

i think a lot of it is about recognising patterns and experience (vs other good players and tournaments) so i wonder if an (relatively) old guy like me could have a chance to achieve something, considering i started *WAY* older than 8-12yo (*) i refuse to believe good players think like me, when playing chess, and they study each move one by one. they can see a series of 5 moves in like 2seconds... *literally

[@Bobsmith-bl2xe]

This guy is so good, he literally doesn’t care. He doesn’t even care! What a guy!

[@studylanguageswithme1090]

Hikaru is just too good.

[@allgood8368]

Bring more these stuffs . It will help all level players to improve . I enjoyed it so much thanks 👍

[@alfredb4118]

He uses alternate accounts for the speed runs too, this guys insane

[@cheguevara7478]

I love the fact that they put in the description: Chess, created in 2020

[@ieorlich]

In case you wonder about these moves being brilliant or not. He said at the beginning of the video, "new brilliant move algorithm". Indeed It used to be a extremely rare to get it before the update. Now is just a human like in depth. Basically now those brilliant moves are high level puzzle game. That even you and me as intermediate players can figure it out too, with some time given ofc. I was able to do 4 of these 5 puzzle. And I'm not remotely close to Hikaru's level. The difference between him and me is astronomical.

[@blackpuppy3940]

it's much easier to find the brilliant move, when you know that there is one. try to find it in actual game with low time.

[@taryth.]

@@blackpuppy3940 Ye, just knowing there is a brilliant move makes you start to look at all the potential sacrifices first, and you are assured there is some winning line without truly needing to calculate through. In an actual game you would need to be sure there is still an advantage after a sac before committing to it

[@NathanHarrison7]

Awesome highlights. And great commentary. One suggestion for us noobs… add a color to the last piece moved for easy move tracking.

[@ikki4003]

When the mind game turn into an art...

[@KristophScott]

On move #3, f2->e2. a6->a8 is an interesting line as well, but ultimately one that is only stalling.

[@syauqiachmad]

he generate more brillian moves than me winning the game

[@overcraft1441]

Hikaru is a genius in unexpected positions

[@nourthedoor]

"counterbrilliancy" is such an awesome word

[@Aegon1]

Question: will the engine only say it’s a brilliant move if you capitalize on it? Bc there are moves on this list that are just blunders if you don’t continue correctly

[@TheBelgianEmperor]

That's not true. The only move that the engine doesn't recommend is the second one, and that leads to a draw at worst.

[@konekyz5605]

He's a brilliant guy

[@thegorn]

Hikaru's best finishing move in chess is when he put Eric Hansen in that headlock

[@carrotcat2729]

I would love to see you covering more of hikaru's brilliant moves. This video was truly brilliant!

[@doziemicheal4178]

Really great moves there!! Bravo

[@themathsgeek8528]

Happy Birthday Hikaru!!

[@NickMaovich]

extremely proud of myself for calculating first one from start to finish

[@cruelworld1902]

Thats awesome

[@markgoldbridge3893]

But we won’t do that in our games 😂😂😂

[@factscom8752]

Happy birthday Hikaru

[@theblaze2294]

he's like the magnus carlsen of chess streaming

[@romanieo]

Great Vid. Liked & Subscribed.

[@DiaryOfaCell]

Hikaru doesn’t mind getting mated because he literally doesn’t care. Like literally doesn’t care.

[@lunchZA]

I'm surprised he hasn't copyright striked this video yet

[@Tommy-tf3tq]

I’m surprised I was actually considering move 5 and it turned out to be right

[@maplemilleni]

youtube subtitles be acting up with the rc and six seige (i dont have sounds rn)

[@virenjoshi]

#1 was so clear neat af

[@dwightPhoenix]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HIKARU!!!

[@siavashsabet2462]

I found Qh7+ in real time, but couldn’t find the other ones.

[@CallMeQuinnie]

Proud to say I saw the moves in the first three games fairly quickly, but the last 2 games were just something else entirely!! I'm happy to have at least seen some of their main ideas, just not exactly how to piece them together. Hikaru is quite the brilliant chess player, thanks for the breakdown Copeland!

[@maxwelljohnson5221]

Damn almost 10% of your moves are book moves you know you’ve made it

[@GabrieleZicari00]

it was like watching Tal's moves

[@agus09z]

Move #1 So far away🤯

[@ng.tr.s.p.1254]

"Take take take take take take check mate" - Hikaru

[@choi-r7108]

Opening the video with The Bishop Pair from Hell, I see

[@mikhail1809]

Yeah let's see him vs Karlsen

[@martinthemartian1070]

One of the best chess players ever.

[@degenerate3796]

Hikaru sacrificing a juicer for mate

[@gejdkikk988]

It seems that there are more faster checkmate processes in first case.

[@leagueplays2100]

games like these are why i love to see hikaru in tournaments, but sucks he doesn't really want to do them

[@AnasLanghi]

all that and he cant get a joke xD. he is brilliant.

[@BinetCauchy]

Where can i find mine move quality??

[@mattias1191]

Me: "I can do that" Proceeds to blunder 3 moves in a row

[@motivationspeaker835]

Happy birthday Hikaru nakamura

[@achillesheel12]

Happy birthday naka

[@the20hunk]

wow in first postion i thought about 3-4 lines and Q c2 made most sense to me, didn't even consider queen h7

[@alanparaico8629]

Very helpful ideas.

[@user-dw4dq1if1m]

Can make video like this for ian? So we can be reminded back of how a great player actually he is, regardless of his performance in wcc.

[@Offline-X]

I can easily predict brilliant move as queen sacrifice is only a brilliant move 😂😂😂

[@jonash.1640]

People forget Nakamura is a GM and has competed with the greats of today just because he makes it fun and streams on twitch as well.

[@edufortuna7431]

NAKA, Maggy, and Dubov are my fave Chess Genius boys.

[@vladdonoiu3367]

Tal would be proud!

[@Goblet31]

That hans game much have been before the beads

[@estefencosta1835]

I'm an 800s player and some asshole beat me with a brilliant move and I've never felt so hard done. Why is an 800 player finding a brilliant move?

[@faranali3739]

Luck😂

[@askthepizzaguy]

Would have been better to include which side to move so we could try to find the move as well.

[@dbonechis]

Hikaru embarrassed Hans in front of a million eyes, so now Hans is trying to take a million Benjamins from his bank account 🤣

[@ayushacharya6723]

i think the subtitles had a stroke looking at all the brilliant moves

[@chrisshaw380]

I can’t wait till I make a brilliant move!!!!

[@LMironono]

GOAT online player

[@voanhkieta-pv8bj]

I just find out 6 brilliant moves. But I'm happy.

[@patrykk5785]

The best moves is in a game's Hikaru vs Niemann! Hans's chess engines did not help

[@hyunwooshinyt]

just gorgeous

[@miracle7375]

4:50 brilliancy vs counter brilliancy Stockfish: :O

[@TrueMotionMastery]

anyone know how to check overall moves stats like in the video? i want to see if i ever played a brilliant move

[@rachidvanheyningen]

Only Diamond members can do that

[@DarcyWhyte]

my brain fell off

[@justafro5051]

Niemann's beads didnt see that ig

[@Trizzer89]

I feel bad for Hans Niemann on that one

[@peteg22397]

I actually managed to get the second one, even though I'm 400 rated and have never done a brilliant move in my own games 😅

[@Chewy427]

There's a theme here.