India, Oct. 6 -- Hikaru Nakamura's controversial celebration after defeating D Gukesh has taken social media by storm. The American GM checkmated Gukesh in a bullet game, and then thew the Indian GM's king into the crowd in celebration. Then Hikaru continued to urge the crowd to cheer more as he celebrated his win against the reigning world champion, at Checkmate: USA vs India.

Team USA sealed a 5-0 clean sweep against Gukesh's side. It was a packed venue, and fans also got to see Fabiano Caruana defeat Arjun Erigaisi. Meanwhile, Carissa Yip bagged a win against Divya Deshmukh.

Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik was aghast by Hikaru's celebration and labelled it a 'degradation of modern chess' on X.

YouTuber Levy Rozman, who was pa...