Hikaru Laughs at Ludwig's Takes on Chess Cheating Scandal

Hikaru just jealous he's not Magnus bestfriend

I like how eric hansen makes one joke about anal beads on stream and then all the mainstream news outlets run w/ it as a 'real theory' rofl

Drama is the least that can make Ludwig sad 😂

I lost it when he said "King's Gambit" 🤣

I loved this video. More Hikaru reacting to or interacting with Ludwig. I'd already watched the Lud video but this added a lot to it

Watching Hikaru is like listening to ten second Tom. “Isn’t everybody his best friend everybody is his best friend isn’t everybody his best friend”

So strange that in Hans first interview he says it was a miracle. But in the second interview, he calls everyone an idiot because it was fully planned because magnus played this line in the past and it was a transposition.

chess drama also has strategic sacrificies of not being 100% genuine ... and maybe stalemate is what really happened meanwhile we demand a "winner"

Great summary tbh. Best short summary I've seen.

Hans be like I gotta talk like my name is Hans

What i don't understand about Hans's transposition reasoning is that he says it was a "small part of his preparation" but prepped 20 moves deep into that transposition? So he was just looking into transpositions and decided to prep deep into one of those but later he names it as a small part of his preparation?

Also, he says he didn't think about it much during the moment because of that?

This is so contradicting and weird.

The thing is everything about Hans could be made sense out of, but it seems barely resting on the edge of it all.

Magnus vs Hans on the Ludwig's chess boxing event would be something else

Woulda been funny if Magnus bong clouded then resigned.

and now it turns out he got the accent from his coach, lmaoo

Im from the US and now live in Dublin. My roommate is from Canada and works as a bartender. In just two years of living and working here she has picked up a bit of an Irish accent which, blended with her existing Canadian accent, makes a pretty unique combination.

Basically if Hans has been living and traveling around Europe to play chess for the last few years like he said, it ABSOLUTELY IS PLAUSIBLE that he picked up a bit of an unusual accent. ESPECIALLY as a teenager.

If he was living in the US for 40 years and then moved to Europe for two years and picked up an accent that would be sus. But college kids studying abroad and picking up an accent is so normal.

He checked the opening because his Mentor somehow got Magnus prep leaked

09:56 if magnus truly believes Hans cheated that would be acttualy a really smart stratagy as the biggest vhess representor to just resign from every game against him that way tournaments would not invite Hans while Magnus is also playing
(if he has real evidence to cheating)

sad moment

Ludwig is such a chad and a shitposter at the same time! XD I love it!

Ludwig is my best friend too, although I've never spoken with him before :)