GM Hikaru Nakamura, what a nice person.
Hikaru's chess prowess is only eclipsed by his even temperament and his humility. My first interaction with Hikaru was to admit how wrong I had been about my own chess-playing skills. Hikaru was playing without his queen by sacking his queen for a lowly pawn against low-rated players at first and then for a minor piece against high-rated players. I had wrongly thought I could be Magnus Carlsen without his queen.In the chat stream, I wrote how mistaken I was to Hikaru after seeing him vanquish player after player that was as much as 600 or more…