The sting of damage rarely is deeper cut in this comparison. When Javokhir Sindarov-19-year-old Uzbek Kautuk, who replaced Vishwanathan Anand as a late entering-Dru Hikaru Nakamura attracted his quarter-final rival at the Vaisenhus Freestyle Grand Slam, some estimated insults that would be followed for the Veterine American.
Nakamura faced one of the worst disadvantages of her career, and as soon as the tour went from Germany to Paris for the second leg, he felt the weight of reducing self-doubt. His way of collapse against Sindarov, abolishing the winning positions through unwanted mental gaps, left a five -time American champion to consider retirement.
“Sometimes, things are for a reason and if I am going to start losing games where I reach great positions, but my brain stops working, it starts creeping some ideas about the future in my mind.” “If I come in similar situations, where I start messing with such games, like I messed up some games in this freestyle event against Sindarov and if the Norway Chess and World Cup just don’t run well for me, there is a very realistic opportunity that I will probably start reducing my career.”
Warning signs were accumulating. In the last 12 months, the flexibility of Nakamura has faltered in significant moments. His disadvantages during the World Rapid and Blitz Championships along with the candidates were probably a sign that he was losing his touch.
In the standard rating with a peak aloe rating of current world number 2 2819, Nakamura was a child who has always moved an outsider.
His 2020 TSM Asports Contract (A six-Akhra deal) was the first type of deal for a professional player. This paved the way for more private institutions to come to the scene. From 2020 to 2025, the game has increased in height with chess included in the e-Sport World Cup, which is set to be in Saudi Arabia later this year.
Nevertheless, it remains a contradiction in the chess world, a mainstream celebrity, whose streaming empire revolutionized the popularity of the game, yet whose competitive is re -initially lacking their talent, lacks their talent.
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Many candidates, despite appearing in the performance of the World Cup and Grand Prix, have failed to win a major championship. Although he was part of the USA team, who won two gold medals in Olympiad, a personal title remained out of his reach. With many people believing that he is one of the most talented players who are not playing the World Championship match, Nakamura is yet to do full justice for his ability.
On Thursday, there was some relief for the American, winning its internal turmoil, fighting against Arjun Erigasi in the second quarter-finals on Thursday. It sets up a rigorous semi-final test against Germany’s Vincent Keyer, In-Form Visenhus leg champion.
While winning the freestyle event here, Nakamura’s career trajectory will not be changed fundamentally, a deep run may prove to be psychologically important.
