Chess prodigy Hikaru Nakamura talks about how streaming affected him

Popular chess grand master Hikaru Nakamura has been one of top streamers on popular platform, Twitch. He h been streaming this ancient strategic game before lockdown started. w, grand master has mand to attract a lot of attention with one of his recent streams. Re more to kw what exactly did Chess GM Hikaru Nakamura during his recent Twitch stream. 

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Hikaru Nakamura on how streaming affected his life

Chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura recently spoke about how streaming has affected his life. He was seen having a conversation with Levy Rozman on his stream. He spoke about how important  streaming community is for him. Hikaru pointed out one thing that he thinks is different between Twitch community and Chess. He says that much of his career, much of his life, he’s sort of been "b guy". He said that Twitch community showed him immense love, for which grandmaster will always be grateful. He also ded that “I’m t someone who has been liked. Very often at times, I’ve been perceived as person that people don’t want to root for, who people don’t like”.

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He also ds that having all of support from Twitch community and fact that re are fans who do support him means a lot for him. He ended  conversation by saying, “To have all of support from you guys [ Twitch community] to kw that re are fans who do support me, it does mean a lot, and that’s kind of biggest difference for me with w versus much of my Chess career.” Currently, Hikaru has mand to cross 500,000 followers on his Twitch account. game’s popularity has been constantly rising that leaves more players flocking in to see what r is all about.

More about Hikaru Nakamura

Hikaru Nakamura is one of most popular players of chess community who has a total of five United States champions. Nakamura also became youngest American to become a Grandmaster at of  15 years and 79 days. He has also represented USA at five Chess Olympis and has brought in a team gold medal and two team bronze medals. His highest  USCF rating was 2900 in August 2015. Later in same year, he reached his peak FIDE rating and hit mark 2816 that also ranked him second in world. His most kwn contender is Mangus Carlsen and two top-level players of chess have played against each or several times. 

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