Hans Niemann jokes about buying a castle as he detoxes in nature after Freestyle Chess high in Las Vegas
In a new video uploaded on his YouTube channel, Niemann, who finished second in the recently concluded Freestyle Chess event at Las Vegas, was seen relaxing on the countryside, detoxing from the constant hectic schedule and jokingly said that he had bought a castle.
'Hello everyone. Welcome to my new castle. After my victory in Las Vegas, I wanted to make a new acquisition. This is where I'll be doing most of my training. And uh perhaps I'll welcome some of my fellow chess players to enjoy my new purchase,' he said in the video.
In the video he also talked about getting to playing classical chess. He said that he had played 261 classical games in 2021, then 180 in 2022. Then the cheating scandal happened.
He said since October last year, he played in just one classical chess event, Aeroflot Open in Russia.
He will be playing at Spanish league now as he looks to get back into classical chess mode as he looks to get in shape for big events like FIDE World Cup in India and the Grand Swiss tournament
'Recap: Las Vegas. Obviously my performance in Las Vegas was a surprise to fully everyone but myself. I immersed myself into freestyle and probably haven't opened Chessbase in a while. So hopefully when I play my first classical tournaments in a while, the Spanish League, starting from August 8th, I'll be able to reacclimatize to the speed or the lack of speed in classical. I'll be playing the Spanish league. It's a seven games all classical. And then after that, there's obviously the Grand Swiss from September 3rd to 15th in Uzbekistan. And then after that we have the next freestyle tournament which is the second to last slam of the tour and then after that the US championship and then after the US championship we have the world cup from the world cup you have the final in Cape Town. After the final in Cape Town there's a global chess league so I am just in nature detoxing from life uh preparing for the all the big tournaments that lie ahead,' Niemann said.
'As you guys know, my last classical tournament if you disregard the Aeroflot Open last March was the US championship in October. So that means from from now, you know we're in August between October, I played one classical tournament which you know as some of you may remember, I played 261 games in a year. So it's quite weird going from that form but looking forward to play a lot of classical chess and focusing on that and trying to make it to the Candidates. So I'll continue documenting the journey and um thank you guys for watching and I'll see you soon, he added.
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