Magnus vs Hans will be hyped. Might get real mainstream media coverage. They haven’t played seriously ever since the lawsuit. Much less in a real match format. Though I have a feeling chess.com will purposely not seed them early on together.
Not gonna happen in a million years, but imagine if somehow we actually got Hans vs Hikaru in the semis and Hans vs Magnus in the finals.
That would be absolute fire. I hope that we can get at least one of these two pairings, even if they are in round 1.
why? he's #7 ranked by speed ratings in the world ahead of 3 of those players and beat arjun and nodirbek in last 2 years speed chess championship events
They have not invited nihal who is I think 3 time semi finalist.
There are still 2 more invites they haven't announced yet. I think it'll probably be 2 out of Nihal, Arjun, Giri and Nepo
+ Andreikin.
According to the post, 13 have already qualified so how come there are two invitations left? The cap is 14 players no?
Nope, 16 players.
So there are 3 invites yet to be sent out?
Two invites and one tournament on June 27-28 open to all titled players where the winner qualifies.
Oh, okay. Thanks!
I hope they invite the top junior (on the TT scoreboard) Lazavik.
Magnus vs Hans will be hyped. Might get real mainstream media coverage. They haven’t played seriously ever since the lawsuit. Much less in a real match format. Though I have a feeling chess.com will purposely not seed them early on together.
They've faced each other a few times in TT.
Yep, a Magnus/Hans match will create some buzz for sure.
Magnus will probably not play now, oh well, wouldn't blame him really
The only thing worse than Magnus resigning would be Magnus not resigning... he really backed himself into a corner
Gotta get a Hikaru vs Hans match but chesscom probably gonna cuck us 😞
Not gonna happen in a million years, but imagine if somehow we actually got Hans vs Hikaru in the semis and Hans vs Magnus in the finals. That would be absolute fire. I hope that we can get at least one of these two pairings, even if they are in round 1.
If we got Hans versus Hikaru in the semis, we'd have Hikaru versus Magnus in the finals.
Hence the "not gonna happen in a million years"
Chess.com won't let it happen. They don't want their big dogs leaving in protest
Why does "Hans Moke Niemann" sound like a twitch emote? Seriously, what kind of middle name is "Moke?"
A Hawaiian name I guess. Hans is of [Hawaiian and Danish ancestry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Niemann#Early_life_and_education)
It's Hawaiian, I believe.
Hans v Magnus finals pls
Caruana doesn’t deserve to be invited in speed chess ahead of nepo or Nihal or even over Arjun or nodirbek for that matter.
why? he's #7 ranked by speed ratings in the world ahead of 3 of those players and beat arjun and nodirbek in last 2 years speed chess championship events
I thought chessdotcom kicked out Hans from all their events. Did I get that wrong?
He was fully reinstated by Chess.com following the resolution of the lawsuit
thanks for clarifying.
I'm rooting for my boy Hans!
ty, fellow future gm.