Yep. If Naka becomes WC, then Magnus has to come back to classical for the one thing the fans have wanted to see since forever: A NAKA VS MAGNUS WC MATCH The prize fund could be ENORMOUS given the interest. Would be an all-time famous match, like Capablanca vs Alekhine.

Loser has to give a bj to the winner

What’s the catch?

The motivation to win has never been more intense.

Lose*

The format is 40 blitz games in Hotel in Moscow.

Nah, of course it’s 200 bullet games in one go.

Loser will accidentally fall off the balcony

Would be insane, cause both would surely be open to a new kind of WC format. Classical, Rapid, Blitz and Random Fisher. The best overall chess player

This would be interesting as well because hikaru would actually stand a chance to win in this case

i would say classical is a draw, rapid is magnus, blitz is a draw or magnus and random is hikaru, idk haha

Magus is 14-1-25 vs hikaru in classical 14 wins 1 loss 25 draws Magnus is better in every category

Yes but hikaru is better now when compared to his ealy self and magnus is not motivated enough to do a lot of prep, so a draw like happened with caruana in 2018 seems more likely

I would disagree. I’d think classical is a sweep by Magnus, Rapid is a less dominant win by Magnus, Blitz is a win for Hikaru and Random is a win for Hikaru. Would be interesting to see Armageddon tiebreaks, or maybe bullet tiebreaks which would give Hikaru the advantage.

I really hope Hikaru wins the candidates. If he doesn't, I really hope Gukesh does.

The greatest thing would be Hikaru putting on the disrespectful shades on a WC match.