Hans Niemann on Botez sisters: 'we're not friends; we're never going to be friends'

Hans Niemann has returned to streaming for the month before his US Championship, and those who exploited his misfortunes have not gone unnoticed. The young talent expressed his disappointment with the Botez Sisters, as well as the content leaches Gotham Chess and C^2 Podcast: "If you look at all their top videos, I think you'll find one thing in common".

Meanwhile he expressed his love for his favorite streamer Naroditsky, and enjoyed some blitz matches with Nihal Sarin- "he's such a nice guy". Niemann expressed his desire to turn a new leaf- but only for grand masters!

[TitanEXRap]

Wether you think he cheated or not, you gotta admit he has a good point here.

[tomn.]

Far from a Niemann fan but I am 100% with Hans on this. Botez are the equivalent of egging your neighbours house and then asking if you can come in.

[humanbeing]

100% agree with Hans. The Botez sisters just want views and they don't care about him at all. How do they have the balls to request a collaboration after all they said?

[ANZUSWRLD]

fake friends, they used to collab a lot and do IRL streams too before shite went down. Now when he's all relevant and the center of attention, magically back to being friends.

[evilrslade]

Agadmator is where it's at. No drama, just Chess.

[stevenash]

100% with Hans on this. Andrea sent a private text apologizing to Hikaru for the Cease and Desist incident but didn't apologize publicly.

[Neon_Daze]

I'm not a Hans fan, but nice to hear someone call out the botez sisters for what they are

[andrekorea]

Agreed.
The whole Niemman vs Carlsen process taught him great maturity, and I'm referring to the media, the destruction of reputation, ostracism. Hans now sees much more clearly and accurately how people really are.

[kwamealievergreen]

Botez, Levy, Hikaru, and practically the entire chess community banded together to absolutely ruin this guy's reputation whether they meant to or not. I'm not particularly a fan of Hans but he has every right to hold that grudge. They humiliated him and played into the whole bead joke for content and views and it's shocking that any of them would think he'd ever want to associate with them, especially the Botex sisters, after what they did.

[louptrjack]

Botes sisters are the beggers of online chess. They will go from player to player to boost their visibility.

[tryrestartingit]

Still insane how the whole world went against this guy and he survived

[burner]

Absolute respect to Hans here. He's spot on.

[Smoker]

Well you ARE a cheater though aren't you? Honest question, haven't you admitted to cheating online? I agree everything is far from ok.

[Mike_Rottchburns]

“They’ll have to pay to book an hour of my time” 😂😂 I laugh so much

[chrisatkeson]

So true. Andrea said "Hans has a literally perfect game and he destroys Magnus with the black pieces" in a video with 1.2 million views. From chessbase: "Not only is Hans Niemann’s correlation in the infamous game against the World Champion just "a modest 68%", but the player with the best correlation at the Sinquefield Cup (3 games over 90% and 2 more over 80%) is… Levon Aronian. " They made a lot of money off slander.

[sbrynjelsen]

Hans is spot on in his commentary. Unlike Botez sisters he actually knows how to play chess and has enough self respect not to lower himself. No excuse for people to make unfounded accusations and then expect colloborations, etc.

[rahulkaulvakil]

Botez sisters just want to hans to milk content out of him and then cry foul in public against him. Fishy. Best decision he stayed away.

[juliuspons]

Botez: selling sexyness by abusing chess.

[kayu]

Hans is right on the money. One thing that bothers me about the Botez's is that they never express original opinions, but that they will say anything to please the crowd.

[NoOne-sojt]

Who could've guessed that a couple Just Chatting streamers would be two faced?