Round 12 | Hikaru Nakamura vs Alireza Firouzja | FIDE Candidates 2024

Breaking new ground, the Women’s and Open competitions unfold side by side, featuring 16 players — eight in each group — engaged in an epic battle to determine the contenders for the reigning world champions.
The 2024 Candidates Tournament in Toronto — for the first time held in North America — promises to be a spectacle of unparalleled chess brilliance that will leave a new mark on the 64-squared chess landscape.

[danielanskaitis]

You know you've screwed up when you get the Hikaru squint, side glance, stink eye combo

[seal]

This is crazy, gukesh and fabi look like they r gonna win their games too. They're so close to ian

[tefcar]

I just imagine hikaru going "takes, takes, takes, I'm winning.. hmm - takes, takes, takes - still winning... hmm wtf"

[Harvestersz]

I get this same type of reaction from my opponent after my 2nd or 3rd move.

[illmill]

all of yall were crying in the comments saying hikaru have yall ever watched a hikaru game?! he does what he wants the bar will end up in his favor in the end!!!

[edwinlemus]

How could Alireza do the impossible: to blunder a game he was clearly winning???
His black night was the key...he never made the move when it was needed. incredible!!!

[padraiggluck]

firouzia knew d3 was losing but his position was already lost.

[peterviglietta]

Thank you for just posting the game, keeping the digital board on the screen the whole time and not having a bunch of jabbering morons ruining the game with their dumb broadcast commentary that no one gives a s--- about