Speedrun ideas for one Mr. Hikaru Nakamura...

Speedruns by far are the best part of Hikaru's channel in my opinion, but I'm not a fan of his most recent "flipped" speedrun. During his speedruns, I try and work out what I would do in his position to see how closely my ideas mirror his. Since I would never play with the board upside down, much of the entertainment value is gone for me.

So, let's give Hikaru some ideas for his next speedrun! I'll start.

1.) Long castle speedrun.

2.) King's Indian speedrun.

3.) Queen sacrifice speedrun (where he intentionally sacrifices his queen very early in the game). This could also apply to sacrificing his rooks, bishops, or knights.

4.) Farming speedrun. In this speedrun, Hikaru would create a new 1200 account and repeatedly rematch other streamers who are 2000+ rated until he passed them in rating points, at which time the speedrun would end. This speedrun would probably be the most difficult to come by, as it would need to involve 2000+ rated players e.g. players like Levy and Alexandra being ok with having 1000+ rating points farmed off their account. But it would make for excellent entertainment and interesting thumbnails. Who knows, maybe if Hikaru offered them a large enough cut from his Twitch subs/donations during the speedrun, he'd get some takers.

What are your thoughts and ideas for a good Hikaru Nakamura speedrun?

4.) Bongcloud Only Speedrun, Hikaru must only play the bong cloud.

Already done mi amigo.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iOd222WIEk8

Bongcloud speedrun is legendary

Now that is the definition of a legend 

I have an idea for Hiki's speedrun

A queen sacrifice speedrun wouldn’t get further than around 1600 lmao 

Quadruple Knight speed run.

True lmao

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If it was bullet I wouldn't be surprised if naka could get 2400+ saccing the queen. I think even Aman hambleton got to 2000. Not sure how he would do down a queen in blitz, though.

I was assuming blitz

"Lightning doesn't strike twice Speedrun".

He tracks which first three moves he has played, and cannot play the same 3 moves twice in the Speedrun.

#17 lol now I want to see that

The backwards speed run:

After working hard to go from 400 to 3000, he has to go all the way back to 400. Resignation is not allowed.

I'd like the see hikaru's brain melt as he goes lower and lower.

Chess 960 speedrun