starting to like Nakamura

Already liked him.. he's being ''dishonest'' though about ICC! he still has hours and hours of bulletsessions per day sometimes, an enjoyment to watch.

I bet in the months off he mentioned he will be online 24/7 as usual , can't wait

Sorry to hurt Nakamura's fanboys but he isn't as good as Carlsen. Carlsen is rated 2847! Nakamura ia a 2750-ish player.

Sorry but Nakamura is not a Carlsen. Winning a tournament with 2600 players is a shame; Carlsen would never beat weaker players for rating points.

\\\\\\well, the kid seems to have shaken off his bad form. Good for him. I hope he can keep it up. That last game was a fine piece of work.

Bad form?! What a silly excuse! Carlsen has bad forms too but still win 2730-ish tournaments; and you don't see Carlsen picking up ratings points by beating 2600 rated players for his "bad form."

Nakamura is a joke. So he loses rating points from the Big Boys and then goes on to play 2600 tournaments to pick up the lost points!

What is wrong with beating up weak players. Weak players should be beaten to within an inch of their life, buried in the sand and beaten again with a wet noodle.

Anand should stop hiding his preparation and give it a try.

Carlsen will dethrone Anand soon.

Nakamura played nice chess especially the last game.

As far as Nakamura being 2750ish and Carlsen being a 2847 well if you are mathimatically impaired that might make sense you can compare peak to peak ratings of 2785 vs 2847 which is vary fair, or probably their maintained average elo of approx 2770 vs 2830 is even more representative of reallity without doing the actual math. So yes a real 60 elo exists between them but Carlsen is the best player in the world today and being on average about 6th or 7th in the world is rather exceptional imho.

Then again I don't take the comments too seriously as they appear to be nonsensical simply to draw a response and so they have. For example Nakamura is at least willing to play players better than he is while Carlsen only gains elo from weaker players. Oh well its the internet after all its not like you have to take an iq test to participate, just internet access and a computer.

strange choice of tie for a Japanese

Its will take Carlsen years before he can dethrone Anand. There is just a big gap in overall chess understanding. Anand is a walking chess encyclopedia

Incredible. This interview is enough reason for the Carlsen brigade to start talking about him and the problems of Anand. What a bunch of losers when they can't stand another player being in the spotlight.

Why always this discussion of who is better? Just look at the rating list. Despite its flaws, that is how we chess players compare each other and what we agree to by playing under FIDE rules. I like Naka, he is a fighter as Carlsen is too. The humbleness displayed in the video suits Naka well. He seems to grow up. We'll see after his next big win, though ;) He'll be back in the top 10 for sure. Keep going Naka!

Carthago should be destroyed

Nice interview...thanks Peter.

"...originally I thought I would be playing who..."

What does he mean by that?!! He should at least have enough respect for his opponents to remember their name! Besides his grammar isn't even right. Correct would be; "...originally I thought I would be playing (who was that?)..." Just because Japan and China have their 'differences' as he put it doesn't mean that he can't show proper respect to his colleagues. You would think that a player at his level who could remember so many variations could remember the name of his opponent instead of saying "who". Disgraceful!

i think naka is actually very respectful of hou and i have heard her name pronounced "who" by others, although i wont trust either way til i hear her pronounce it herself. anyway he paid her the highest of compliments when he admitted to being worse and missing her tactical shot in their second game, and seemed gracious in their post-mortem staying a good while to talk over the game with her.

"strange choice of tie for a Japanese"

Sure but not bad at all for an American ;o]