Former Chief spokesman for the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (retired)
Nakamura is a Grandmaster and dramanaut who found great success on Twitch and Youtube. He's a bit of a dramanaut so naturally he has a large amount of haters and fanboys. He's very good at chess when played using the faster time formats (called Rapid, Blitz and Bullet, with each format progressively getting faster) so this is what he specializes in mostly. There is currently a World Chess Tournament going on (in Poland) which is played with two of these faster time formats, with many heavyweights attending including the classical chess world champion Magnus Carlsen. The chess-equivalent of FIFA is called FIDE, the governing body which organizes the tournaments and is also responsible for awarding prestigious titles such as Grandmaster.
Nakamura complaining about the lack of proper coof testing:
Meanwhile...FIDE cannot setup private COVID testing for the hundreds of participants in the event, and everyone is stuck in a mile long line at a public testing facility. Hopefully nobody forfeits their 1st game today or misses a flight tomorrow.
Moments later he announces that he has tested positive for the coof:
Wasn't feeling well before the Rapid, told @FIDE_chess, got tested - was neg and I played. Needed to take a test today to fly tomorrow - it's positive. I cannot finish the tournament and now am worried for all my opponents. Will be seeing you on stream doing commentary, I guess.
The best part is that this tournament is being played in Poland, so he's likely stuck there for weeks depending on Polish flight regulations regarding the coof. He also traveled around with many other Grandmasters at the tournament while feeling sick 
, including Magnus Carlsen I believe (not sure about this one though). I don't know if he's gigavaxxed, but he probably is because I'd imagine it's a mandatory requirement in order to be able to enter tournaments. Then again he's Nakamura so it wouldn't surprise me if he wasn't.
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Chess drama is always so entertaining. Probably because the top bracket of players is entirely made of socially incompetent spergs.
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Hikaru's more streamer now than chess GM. Usually that would be an insult, but you gotta enjoy shit like this (he reaches 3000 on chess.com using the shittiest meme opening in the world.)
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Classical chess is getting too boring with all that time spent on preparation memorizing computer lines. Many other GM's share this sentiment, including Magnus Carlsen. The faster time formats are definitely the most entertaining for both players and viewers. Nakamura is also a lot better at the faster time formats than he is at classical chess, not to mention he's probably making ten times as much money with streaming and Youtube.
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Not that I'd know, I'm not a gaymer
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He also complained to the chess.com jannies about losing to a smurf account while doing it while he himself was on a smurf account
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Literally the only people in chess club at my school were socially incompetent spergs and Iranian girls
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HEY frick you. Im in a chess club!!
Also, if you're seeing the right ones, Iranian girls are hot af.
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lol.
tbh I'd probably join a chess club if I was any good at chess
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Yeah thats why they suck lmao.
More evidence that Spergers are cognitively, biologically superior to neurotypicals.
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That's because the top bracket of the wcc is far worse than the top bracket of chess. Most womens leagues exist due to biological diferences but the wcc just exists because foids are bad at chess
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World chess champion you fricking mong
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Snapshots:
complaining:
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he announces:
r/chess reacts:
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yes he got banned from the tourney
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Sneediment
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Imagine being in a group of people who consider themselves some of the smartest in the world when suddenly one of your fellow rice balls sneezes all over you, infecting everyone with Chinese bat plague and destroying the event
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Almost all high ranking chess players that I know of are based, centrist and humble. They are not exactly what you would expect.
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Carlsen is the GOAT
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Well well well, check mate coofers!
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Lmao serves him right, he's gonna spend NYE on a quarantine.
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Fancy how he can feel symptoms and still test negative.
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