Chessbae Slams Hikaru For Twitch Drama

Chess is a popular part of Twitch, with an online community that discusses strategies, tournaments, and rankings. Now, the chess community is currently on fire because of the back-and-forth between two high-level players GM Hikaru Nakamura and Erci Hansen. Recently, Chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer Hikaru Nakamura has been accused of trying to take down the YouTube channel of one of his streaming rivals, Eric Hansen after his youtube channel was hit with a copyright strike by Chessbae.

Chessbae manages Nakamura’s stream, as well as the streaming setup for Chess.com. On April 12th, Hikaru Nakamura issued an apology on his twitlonger post. He publicly apologized for the ongoing drama saying that he will take more control of his multi-platform chess content moving forward. While Hikaru may have attempted to clear the air and even requested Hansen speak with him privately about the situation, the Chessbrah took to Twitch to explain why the apology doesn’t hold much weight. During one of Hansen’s live broadcasts, he delved into how the strikes against his channel were allegedly premeditated, how Chessbae was completely against how he and Alexandra Botez would spend time together, and how he can never coexist with her or Hikaru again.

He explained; “For the personal life manipulation and then the business side, there’s nothing that works. It’s gone way too far. Hikaru, in his own position, has tried to get prominent members of the chess community canceled through his name and push them away from coaching, collaborations, sponsorships. Then you add Chessbae into the equation, and you have somebody who can manipulate the narrative to make them always look like the good guys while behind the scenes they’re f**king with everybody and playing everybody”. Furthermore, he explained that things allegedly got so bad with Chessbae as eventually, when Eric tried to rekindle things with Alexandra Botez, Chessbae allegedly told her that if she were to visit him, she would be cut off from PogChamps, raids, hosts, and other stream benefits.