The American-Japanese grandmaker Hikaru Nakamura added that the Indian chess ecosystem, which is given birth to superstars such as D Gukesh, had “no big imbalance”, which, according to him, is the problem that Afflict the American chess community.
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India has made rapid progress in the world of chess in the past two years thanks to the rise of young stars such as D Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi, R Praggnanandhaa and more. It is this “generation of gold” of stars molded by the legendary Viswanathan Anand which was responsible for the transformation of India into a force in failures, by distributing clinical performance collectively as well as individually.
The young Indian stars had helped India to win a historic medal of the young Olympiad in the “open” categories as well as “women” in 2022, and would finish a golden sweep during the same event two years later. More recently, Gukesh had become the youngest winner of the story tournament in history as well as the late world championship and while Praggnanandhaa had won the Tata Steel Chess tournament earlier this month.
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The American star of Hikaru Nakamura chess, for its part, is all elevated for “the ecosystem” which is currently in place in India, which, according to him, has helped to transform the country into a superpower of failures.
“When I look at the failures, there is a country that goes very well, where the whole ecosystem is developed as I want to say in the United States. This country is obviously India where there is no big imbalance, “Nakamura told Chessbase India on the touch of the opening event of the Grand Slam tour to the Freestyle failure in Weissenhaus, in Germany.
The great Japanese Master -American continues by explaining how things are clearly different in the West – mainly in the United States – where there is an “imbalance” within the chess community that results in professional players, even those who have Consecrated their lives to failures, fighting to live decent of sport.
“So when I look at the failures – and I will simply use the United States as an example because it is where I come from – you have the imbalance where you have the best players who are successful, but it is not Not really superstars. And you have content creators like Levy (Levy Rozman, alias Gothamchess) and myself who do better than pro Pure players, and therefore you have this imbalance which, I think, causes a lot of jealousy, a lot of negativity because You want things are not as they should be.
“You have players who have spent all their lives playing chess and you have people who frankly put a fraction of time to earn more money than the pros. I therefore think that in the West because of this, it is very good that you have some of these tournaments, “added Nakamura, justifying the existence of the lucrative tour of the Grand Slam of freestyle chess as a financial blessing for Professional players.
The 37 -year -old man added that “India is the perfect example” of how a chess ecosystem should be, and was “sad” to see him not reproduced elsewhere.
“On the other hand, if I look at India, I think everything is essentially as it should be. I think India is the perfect example; You have the best successful players, these are superstars. People who are professional players are the most successful.
“It looks like the system, everything is like that. Everyone is fine, and therefore in India, things will continue this way. Jealous is the bad word to use, but it definitely makes me a little sad to see that it is not like that elsewhere, “added Nakamura.
Nakamura is currently competing in the Weissenhaus leg of the Grand Chelem Freestyle tour which started on Friday, where it was tied with two points with Gukesh, the world n ° 1 Magnus Carlsen and the Grand Master German Vincent Keymer after five laps .
