SPOT ON CHESS: Under Pressure Niemann vs Liang, Round 9 US Men's Chess Championship

SPOT ON CHESS: Under Pressure...

When you are an up and coming chess colossus and a media sensation - sometimes for the right or wrong reasons! - you are under pressure. When you play chess... you are under the pressure of a clock and are stressed. To break into the big time you have to win, win, win... and win some more. Young hungry players usually give the fans what they want: Decisive chess games.

Hans Niemann is a certified chess celebrity now. Sometimes Bad Boy of chess, sometimes victim, sometimes villain but always playing to win. And the fans like it that way. Can he make it to the top of the Chess World and take over for Magnus Carlsen or will Hans Niemann be just another contender in a world full of victory hungry chess professionals. Time will tell. And how young Grandmaster Hans Niemann handles the pressures of competing at the highest levels of chess will determine his chess fate and perhaps the future of the World Chess Championship crown. Time will tell all.

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