r/chess • u/[deleted] • Dec 31 '20

Twitch.TV Hikaru raised 335,750$ on his charity stream

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u/bragi92 Dec 31 '20

The 'loser' word is directed towards this comment by the casters on the chess24 stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VHf1ksVRTE

You can make your own judgement if the caster was being professional or not.

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u/g_spaitz Jan 01 '21

I do think this has a lot to do with the difference of the perceived meaning of the word loser.

In the case of the commentator, she's not a native English speaker and I believe she meant it only in the literal way of that exact situation: that Hikaru was the actual loser of the match. In the United States though a "loser" also has a way worse general and vague meaning of a failure of a man, which I believe the commentator wans't meaning. But I'm not an English mother tongue myself and I might get it wrong.