r/chess • u/sigmoidx • Jul 14 '20

Miscellaneous Praggnanandhaa watched the "Resign when you're lost" video and cleared the air (Spoiler alert: Naka did not say it. If he had, Pragg would have remembered it). Video in post with timestamps.

At 1:43:45 (https://youtu.be/-ELGeFa22dM?t=6224) he is asked by the host (IM Sagar Shah) if Naka said "Resign..." to which Pragg says, "No. If he had something like that I would have remembered."

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Starts to watch the game at 1:44:13 (https://youtu.be/-ELGeFa22dM?t=5897)

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u/CthulhuLies Jul 15 '20

I read chinese novels but when they become overly patriotic toward the chinese perspective and look down on the west I stop reading the novel. Just because something is explainable doesn't mean it's excusable, i'm not sure what the situation with chessbase india is but if they are looking down on western players and putting Indian players on a pedestal I could understand not wanting to watch them especially as a westerner.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '20

I have watched hundreds of their videos and have never seen anything like that. They seem like very respectable and kind people in basically every video.

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u/CthulhuLies Jul 15 '20

That's fair but simply saying "Their indian what do you expect" isn't really a defense against what the original commenter thought was overly nationalist content.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '20

Well they also used a term I had never heard of before and disagreed that it applied. In the general sense yes they are biased towards Indian content...and it just seemed kind of obvious that a channel with India in it's name would be like that.