The five-time US champion exchanged frosty tweets with the world No 1 after the rapid/blitz tournament in St Louis
Hikaru Nakamura, the five-time US champion, has a flourishing online presence with more than a million subscribers to his Twitch stream, where he demonstrates his high-level skills while passing on expressively phrased nuggets of wisdom.
At age 33, Nakamura’s hopes for the classical world title are remote, and he now rarely plays one game a day tournaments. His supremacy is geared to speed games, where he and the world No 1, Magnus Carlsen, have stratospheric ratings around the 2900 mark.