Hikaru Nakamura is setting speed chess records at chess.com. He's at 3400 and he's playing right now.
Hikaru Nakamura is setting speed chess records at chess.com. He's at 3400 and he's playing right now.
www.chess.com
GM Hikaru Nakamura (Hikaru) - Chess Profile
Too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, no random map or spawn position, only 2 players, both sides exact same pieces, etc.
Polytopia addresses these limitations.
Lemme find that substack article that breaks down how psychologically revealing this statement was
edit: here it is
honestly if he wasn't evil and rich, his childlike conviction that his favorite video game is the Greatest Game Objectively would be charming. Like that's how I thought when I was 10 years old.
Fucking hell, I thought this was a joke.
That was a cathartic read