Hikaru's funny face
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While funny, I would find it quite inappropriate if I saw someone doing such grimaces looking at my board during a serious game. Good thing Levon Aronjan was too focused to see him (not sure about his opponent, though).
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AUESOME! I 'might' do the same thing if I was one of the strongest players around looking at a lower ranking players game and very "interesting position".
As much as it is funny (very funny actually :-)), it is borderline cheating. He's pretty much telegraphing his opinion of the position to Levon's opponent.
@ohcomeon_1 said in #5:
> As much as it is funny (very funny actually :-)), it is borderline cheating. He's pretty much telegraphing his opinion of the position to Levon's opponent.
Well, the nature of the position was such that Levon's opponent did not need Hikaru's opinion on it. When I looked at the board I wondered what was so funny, until I counted the material. It is certainly very uncommon that a world class player is down a full piece with absolutely nothing to show for it after merely 18 moves, and that triggered Hikaru's incorrect behavior. In all likelihood the person most disturbed by it was actually Hikaru's opponent.
> As much as it is funny (very funny actually :-)), it is borderline cheating. He's pretty much telegraphing his opinion of the position to Levon's opponent.
Well, the nature of the position was such that Levon's opponent did not need Hikaru's opinion on it. When I looked at the board I wondered what was so funny, until I counted the material. It is certainly very uncommon that a world class player is down a full piece with absolutely nothing to show for it after merely 18 moves, and that triggered Hikaru's incorrect behavior. In all likelihood the person most disturbed by it was actually Hikaru's opponent.