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by lupire 937 days ago
They watch Hikaru because he is fun while he plays and wins.

Offline, he is #4 is slow chess and #1 in Blitz.

He's not facing strong challenges on Titled Tuesday, and (like all top players) he is so good that there simply aren't enough players and data to make the empirical Elo scale work for assessing his win probabilities.