Hikaru Nakamura

American GM

“As for the Titled Tuesday tournaments, I’ll try to stay positive as much as I can… From Chess.com’s end, it’s a brilliant maneuver: they were able to get top players to play every week for essentially pennies on the dollar, especially thanks to the tie-in with the EWC.

But on the other hand, this is very bad for players overall. Because it kills their market value and negotiating power. Organizers might say: ‘You already play online every week for a thousand bucks at best — why should we pay you more?’ It really kills players’ bargaining power.

I would say from that standpoint — it’s actually very bad.”