Pro Reacts to Chess GRANDMASTER Hikaru Playing Geoguessr

[@zondberg]

Hikaru zooming in on random parts of the map is like xQc clicking on every single chess piece before making a move

[@lexistential]

what's good zi8gzag, it's everyone here

[@niccolopaganini1782]

👋🍂🥺

[@helpsloan]

what’s zi8gzag, its good everyone

[@pinkdragon4830]

What’s here Zi8gzag, it’s everyone good

[@noahm2376]

Elite comment Fr

[@Okaz_]

what’s zi8gzag everyone, it’s good here

[@nekoqt]

As a chess and geoguessr enjoyer, this feels like birthday to me

[@asdness_5597]

Me too, i ain't no geoguesser player but i like watching them it

[@kokonut5704]

Fr hikaru and zi8zag in the same video feels so weird

[@jorgjizzberger]

Today is my birthday hahah so sure it feels like

[@33niboR]

Same

[@FoxfernXD]

@@asdness_5597 same

[@palmtreegal3]

my two current obsessions are geoguessr and chess. So this video is right in my wheelhouse

[@KittyKat94]

Exactly. Same for me

[@jadezippert7601]

elo ?

[@adamopinheiro]

I thought I was the only one

[@blackman7186]

24:19 it totally makes sense that he has good knowledge of countries vibes and languages since this is the guy who has probably spent less time in his own home and more in various countries just playing tournaments. And when you tend to change your surroundings so often, your brain subconsciously learns to pick up on things around you, such as languages and general vibe of a place.

[@Counterfeit_Eternity]

Funnily enough, I originally discovered GeoGuessr due to the chess community. Another popular chess streamer, International Master Eric Rosen, happened to upload a GeoGuessr video. This was more than four years ago, before GeoGuessr really blew up in popularity. Ever since seeing GeoGuessr for the first time all those years ago, I’ve been hooked!

[@shiina29]

Chess Comedic Genius Eric Rosen played GeoGuessr? I gotta go watch those videos…

[@dazwischenundausserhalb]

Do a collab with hikaru

[@mloxard]

Lol It would be great, but Hikaru doesn't want to focus on Geoguessr :D

[@andytc4840]

A chess/geoguessr crossover would be so good! Rules could work a bit like Chess Boxing (KO or checkmate wins) but instead of boxing it's a custom game of Duels where each player has 25kish health and no multis. They could do one move each then one round of Geoguessr.

[@Andres-qm1xx]

Chess is a boring game. Better focus on actual GueGuessr

[@Lamcuyp572L]

@@Andres-qm1xxChess is boring until you understand the game to a certain level

[@s1gma-_-522]

​@@Andres-qm1xxchess is boring because its not for dumb people

[@TrimutiusToo]

Hikaru was born in Japan but his mother moved with him to US when he was 2 years old

[@miquelcanosasanteularia1678]

4:51 the candidates is one of the hardest chess tournaments. A LOT of great tournaments prizes are just to qualify for the tournament, then 8 players play against each other (twice in each colour). The winner gets to challenge the world champion in a match for the titlle

[@runyeran]

In other words, the highest level of chess.

[@freeEnd_]

​@@runyeran the highest level of human chess, yes

[@runyeran]

@@freeEnd_ well I don't see stockfish competing in tournaments 👀👀

[@freeEnd_]

@@runyeran its still the highest lvl of chess there is (yet) The best players are like kids to stockfish and the humans will lose 100 out of 100 games vs stockfish

[@runyeran]

@@freeEnd_ well humans in the scheme of things are only really good at playing decent moves.

[@Duckfan-qo6rp]

zi8gzag playing chess at his channel soon maybe?

[@dazwischenundausserhalb]

Candidates is the qualification tournament for the clasical worldchampionship match

[@maximepoca9396]

As a chess and geogessr enjoyer, I've seen Hikaru's video before. And I was also shocked about how good his language knowledge is and how bad his map knowledge is 😂

[@noahweinkum9471]

Zi8gzag deducing very accurately how long a yard is just from the guess distances is CRAZY

[@saber512]

bro he wasn’t even close stop glazing 😭🙏

[@noahweinkum9471]

​​@@saber512He said very similar to a meter but slightly less. How is this not correct Edit: and of course I will never stop glazing zi8gzag🙏🙏🙏

[@epicbrawlstars808]

@@noahweinkum9471 who doest know yard to meter conversion??

[@HuckleberryHim]

I was surprised he didn't know that a yard is roughly a meter, but yeah he worked that out nicely

[@fasterthanmybullet8097]

@@epicbrawlstars808 ?

[@wookgg]

Now we need Oscar to play chess and Hikaru to react

[@ZainAhmed456]

"Blunder, Blunder, Blunder, Blunder, Blunder"

[@superguy111]

@@ZainAhmed456”sacing the queen, not the best move here”

[@Control959]

"He missed mate in 21"

[@Lenin22147]

​@@superguy111Botez Gambit

[@adamopinheiro]

Based on the color of this square, I'm pretty sure this is e4

[@Mosqueeto]

They way Hikaru zooms countries is the way I draw arrows in chess.

[@ErykKrzeminski]

Candidates is a chess tournament. The winner of it goes on to challenge the sitting world champion for the title

[@DaRealBAN]

You need to teach him bro, imagine him being a grandmaster at chess and a geoguessr pro

[@canucksclips7642]

Hikaru is a crazy fast learner and has an insane memory, hed get good so fast if he wanted to

[@Alex-bl8uh]

​@@canucksclips7642 why do you think he is a fast learner?

[@ocebolinha]

1:31 Just a curiosity: the Volkswagen Beetle was also very common in Brazil, here we call it “Fusca”. Nowadays its a little rarer to find them but we still have a good amount on our country, mainly in the northeast and São Paulo states.

[@julin1331]

bh tem um monte tb, quase comprei um

[@SirCrypt]

And south africa

[@SirCrypt]

We call it a volla (pronouns it fo-la)

[@ilinca1704]

geoguessr proficiency aside do some people just not look at the world map like ever in their life

[@goatpepperherbaltea7895]

I never did because I was an American raised in one the main character states so there was no reason to and I also managed to graduate high school without ever taking any geography classes bc US public school is more of a baby sitting program than a means of education but then I got into geoguessr and now I know all the countries and islands of the world

[@bronsknight2954]

It's interesting, I as an American took geography classes and we NEVER looked at maps. Honestly, before studying for geoguessr my only exposure to world maps was really just in history class, learning about like Rome and Greece or the fertile crescent. It's kind of interesting and probably a good reflection of American nationalism

[@Sinzari]

Can confirm, I'm a Canadian and I've never looked at a map. Being able to recognize a country in real life and find it on a map are two completely separate unrelated things to me.

[@ninjayu17]

Yep As a science student who only studied geography in early classes and only for marks and maintain that 90+ score I only know the location of countries that we studied about in history and pol. Sci. Geography was mainly about our own country Agriculture, population, employment, literacy and stuff I know the location of every indian state tho Science>>> social studies

[@Crazyclay78YT]

10:07 Fun Fact: to quickly estimate, a yard is about 10cm shorter than 1m. In turn every 11yd is about 10m. this is just for quick estimation though

[@flopasen]

just take ~10% off the yard value to approximate metres 500 yards is ~450m (457.2m exactly)

[@Crazyclay78YT]

@@flopasen you can also do x/11*10. math is crazy man, you can do things in so many ways

[@slivovitz1683]

Better yet just stop using metric. The Anglo countries are a disgrace for switching. Come back home brothers

[@markn.7914]

He actually got veryyy close to my house on the Singapore round lmao, almost spit out my coffee seeing the screen

[@Marnige]

Any rounds in Singapore is dangerously close to a singaporean home.

[@Someone-vg7ii]

Now you have to shoot a video with a title 'Zi8gzag gets mated in 8 moves by a GM'

[@dariocaporuscio8701]

Nmpz hat is objectively the best merch ever produced for any game

[@chir0pter]

hikaru was funny. you should definitely see if you can collab with him on some shorts or something

[@Okurka.]

Hikaru is so Americanized he doesn't find countries on a map.

[@runyeran]

"I'm pretty sure China is on E5"

[@MrLimon27]

@@runyeranmy bro was looking Dubai in g8 when he should have been looking at a1 💀

[@antoinedabesthello8725]

Fr what about d1638 in Mexico righttt?

[@tenaciousvermin]

Chess and geoguessr colliding wasn't on my bingo card. But I could not be happier. Hopefully, there will be more fun crossovers in this verse.

[@captainobvious8037]

The thing about Hikaru is.. he remembers everything.

[@GabrielW07]

I actually had lunch in the Restaurant “Lokal” in Prague, funny coincidence

[@StahliCell]

3:20 I'm pretty sure that blue number plate can only be some sort of diplomatic license plate, I believe they are blue in europe but I'm not sure

[@StahliCell]

4:50 the candidates is the tournament which decides the chess world cup challenger. The top chess players battle it out and the winner of this candidates tourney gets to play against the world champ

[@StahliCell]

Fun fact: When I was in Madrid it was for my sister's masters degree completion, she didn't want her friend and I to participate at the actual ceremony so we just roamed the city tasting every single beer from every brewery we found. I can't remember much of Madrid now lol

[@marcobadowski9202]

A Blue license plate is used, to identify official taxis in spain.

[@PkPvre]

@@marcobadowski9202 Same in Netherlands, interesting :)

[@P3TER_Official23]

You need to collab with Hikaru where you halp him play and teach him clues connected to countries He could teach you chess in return 😂

[@Gameboygenius]

The true meaning of skill swap.

[@ts-wo6pp]

Bootleg rainbolt and bootleg magnus Carlsen 👀

[@antagonist4823]

4:36 candidates - meaning the place candidates compete for chess world championships or a big competition

[@ValterN1lsson]

Was just gonna comment that

[@curlyred83]

A yard is slightly shorter than a meter

[@anson2457]

Yeah he looked it up bro watch the video before u comment

[@curlyred83]

@@anson2457 i commented before i saw that he looked it up

[@goatpepperherbaltea7895]

@@curlyred83BASED AND YARDPILLED😎

[@PinkWorm]

@@curlyred83 at least you're honest

[@Doglover-mx7ov]

Hikaru was born in hirakata in the Osaka prefecture in japan and moved to the us at 2

[@Dudq-cb7ws]

You should collab with Hikaru, you are collab king.

[@randomalias67]

Not knowing where these countries are is craaaazy

[@Gigabot3009]

Some people just don’t care bro. Nothing crazy

[@heinarsc1691]

mad respect for not silently looking at his chat while playing

[@ulion333]

Hikaru premoved the whole Video

[@kylepruden5673]

i was incredibly excited when i saw he posted a geoguessr video and now im excited to watch you react to it

[@ibaijurado279]

3:10 man there's literally a Correos logo and several words in spanish just in the first frame, I'm surprised how zi8zag didn't guess this right away given that he's a pro...

[@mohammed71712]

18:00 Slovakian is closer to Czech in language but Polish is not that far off. Also in Prague there's a big Vietnamese community so the Banh Mi store was also a hint.

[@milanek1527]

Yeah, also that sign is not only in Prague, I've seen the same one around Plzeň too and I live there.

[@marinahoffmann2734]

Hikaru got me excited about geo guesser. Its really fun to watch and to play. This video feels home.

[@Lešnik-12345]

Hikaru vs Magnus Carlsen matchup?

[@magicl4088]

Whats good zigzagg Hikaru was probably here

[@helpsloan]

this crossover as amazing as both a chess and geoguessr addict lmfao. me and a buddy got into both of these games because we both love competitive games but we’re tired of grinding out mechanical skill on FPS and fighting games. would be great to see you play some chess some time oscar

[@Minecraft_and_Cats]

Zi8gzag, You should do a video with yourself, an intermediate player, and a beginner player in a challenge where the beginner has to guess the continent; then within the continent, the intermediate player has to guess the right/closest country; and then you guess as close as you can within that country.

[@blackseraph5939]

Since you're reacting to stuff, you might enjoy the Map Men's recent video on Geoguessr (it's on Jay Foreman's channel), I think you'll enjoy it

[@lliindyylv9834]

Latvia mentioned! Public transport in Riga has the Ukrainian flag as sticker on door. This is a sign of support.

[@StewartyMac]

I love how you can almost pinpoint a location in seconds by looking at a field, yet initially think the centre of Madrid was Paris!!

[@muhsincanorhan]

You are definitely right about water tanks in Turkey. Southern part of the country gets more sun light and those water tanks are used to obtain hot water.

[@maxmimoune4270]

The candidates chess tournement is the tournement made to decide who gets to play the current world champ. if people where wondering.

[@DaCarnival]

The Candidates is typically the strongest Chess competition in the world, held bi-annually with the winner earning the right to challenge the world champion for his title.

[@puffin7285]

I really enjoy these reaction videos to less experienced players. It's actually in some ways more helpful for a noob like me to learn some things from Zigs commentary over what they are actually doing wrong rather than always watching Zag boss the map

[@TheOnlyVipey]

GeoGuessr is coming back strong af right now I love to see it

[@o_s-24]

16:38 a useful way to onow the city in Russia is to look at the buses. You can see the green bus which can be found in Yekaterinburg, Moscow's buses are dark blue with a wave pattern near the top, St. Petersburg's are light blue, Nizhny Novgorod - orange etc.

[@matyascsepregi6678]

this was a discombobulating experience, thanks

[@atikurrahman8576]

First time i've heard Hikaru say "only" 53 seconds. Meanwhile in chess , he's chilling , no pressure at all, while the clock says 3 secs left.

[@mstreurman]

The roman numeral on the Budapest street signs are actually the district, so you can get very close by just looking at a street sign there as the districts are actually also written on the map if you zoom in to the city. (Lived in Budapest for a couple of years)

[@kevvvinnn]

21:40 "really close vibes without being close at all" 🤣

[@adamadamek2989]

wow i didnt expect him to be that good btw nice contenet keep it up

[@bosnianuser]

I wasn’t expecting this video

[@TheM0nsterX]

The day before Hikarus video dropped, i was like "ive never seen Riga in a geoguessr vid before, i could 5k ez peasy lmao" (i may add, that i dont binge it, but ive seen plenty) nezt day hikaru drops a vid... and two Rigas in one, what a treat. Almost broke my teeth out when he said Lithuania tho, fair guess

[@arpansarangi]

He knows languages because he knows how chess player names from different countries look like.

[@SohamTatar]

7:00 yes this is Shubuya crossing (iirc it is the biggest crossing in the world, been there 7 yrs ago)

[@ismailnordal1234]

I was waiting for this video. I haven't even watched the video yet and I am sure Zigzag will be impressed

[@valentino7378]

I randomly opened this video and when it finished was suprised that it was half an hour long lol. Very cool and interesting

[@jasonyoungblood9359]

Cool to see Hikaru in your video. I watch alot of chess AND geoguessr!

[@Doglover-mx7ov]

A yard is 3 feet a meter is 3.3

[@barleduckgeo]

zi8gzag is on his chess arc rn

[@CaroKannDummy]

24:40 btw there is a chess opening based off of this exact location 😂 Budapest Gambit

[@AkaFrOzeN0]

3:15 In spain, Taxis and Ubers have blue license plates, pro tip if you did not know 6:10 Yes, Atocha is the central train station (but he's not at)

[@uditisinha305]

17:57 that face you're making hahahha

[@isaac9973]

As a Mexican, just by the word “esquite” I can tell is Mexico City. That’s what those monsters call a corn in a cup.

[@LuciusFilmex]

Some tips (from a noob): In the first one "tamal" (the food) would instantly tell you it's Mexico. In the second one the architecture screams Europe and the word "Museo" ("museum" in Spanish) tells you it's Spain (Edit: Also in Italy tbh).

[@aquss33]

It's incredible how the guy knows every single big country's vibe, but still can't even remotely find 90% of them on a map... He just knows the name of the country but barely knows what continent it is... Honestly, quite fascinating

[@Stylnn.9]

27:54 Riga has these Blue White and Black busses and trams that could be really common in Riga cause we love our public transport

[@alexj9603]

The giveaway for me was the very characteristic silhouette of that huge hotel across the river.

[@OmgPuppies]

I think it'd be really interesting to see you react to Neurosama's Geoguessr attempts.

[@Jos_13]

I needed this crossover

[@lukeroberts6577]

The candidates is the tournament that determines who's going to compete for the chess world championship. I could be wrong but the tournament wittles down from 12 to 1.

[@lukeroberts6577]

12 players*

[@BIGHSM]

Hello Ziggiest man

[@cptazstudios7952]

Its amazing how fast they rebuilt after the incident that happened in Shibuya

[@QwerCat228]

Video suggestion: how to regionguess a chessboard

[@artemisia770]

It’s so funny to me that he’s so accurate with getting the locations but he has no idea where they are on the world map 😂

[@goatpepperherbaltea7895]

I wonder if geoguessr has some 5D level marketing strategy going on here with “single player” mode like just make it easy so twitchers play it and do surprisingly well and it goes viral (obviously know he’s not just a twitch guy but it’s a fun thought)

[@chrisi1466]

No I think it’s just if the average person decides to play the game and they are put on a rural European road or middle of Senegal they are going to have no clue and probably never play again, so if most new players play that mode first and have some basic common knowledge they can see how the game works without being in the middle of nowhere and feeling dumb lol

[@mloxard]

The earlier levels are really easy but get progressively harder but your skills should also be on a higher level then

[@marcobadowski9202]

About 3:17, a blue license plate gives away, that the car is a taxi vehicle in spain. It became mandatory to have one in 2018 or so :)

[@karlkarl_1]

In most other european countries it indicates diplomatic vehicle

[@prplt]

surprised you thought the Madrid one was in France, I immediately knew it was Spain based off the traffic sign ⛔ 😂

[@skyblockgamer7713]

"He's the next MK." 😂But seriously Hikaru is very good in Geoguessr, he's not that good in map knowledge but in other stuff he is. I like that he's not screaming and swearing all the time like other youtubers. I love this guy.

[@nxdevera]

in todaaaaaaaaay's video we're going to be reacting to hikaru playing geogessur let's get into it.

[@NovemberOrWhatever]

The conversion I use is 1 yard = 1 meter. It's about 10% off, but it's close enough for getting a general scale of things

[@imtherealclown]

No offence to the people Oscar had reacted to before this, but Hikaru is much more intelligent and serious lol😂

[@bobrulz]

Nah all the offense to xQc tbh, he's hella toxic.

[@GeoJaydi]

WORLDS ARE COLLIDING

[@bobrulz]

I would love to see the 2nd half of this react. This guy is way less annoying than most of the people you watch play Geoguessr, most of the others just scream and insult the other player (can't stand xQc for example).

[@PkPvre]

hikaru mimics how xqc speaks, it drives me insane.

[@N3KLAZ]

yeah i remember having to play duels on the world map for two years :D

[@uditisinha305]

22:24 yes sir! that will be fun

[@noahneuhauser3435]

Came to say the same thing

[@kennylux]

18:05 I'd say nah, out of the European languages Polish is one of the easiest to tell, Czech is much more similar to Slovakian, Slovenian and Croatian

[@Killer79927]

The candidates is the qualifier to the world championships btw

[@AurinneA]

I don't know any of the people you react to, they're not from the corner of YT I frequent and I'm not really interested in them, so I usually can't get engaged in the reaction videos, unfortunatey. This guy was pretty interesting, though, and I'd be up for more where the person has some interesting knowledge well applied like this. It's actually refreshing to see successful strategies that are different from how pros play every now and then.

[@МихайлоСвєчкін]

So, recently, I was casually watching ZigZag's reactions to other people playing GeoGuessr. Then, I decided to search whether Hikaru played it. He did. Now, I watch ZigZag react to that Hikaru video. The loop is now closed.

[@Alfredssssss]

Yes! A new react video! 🐐

[@JushSam]

Love this