India, Oct. 6 -- Vladimir Kramnik, the former world champion, showed no mercy as he called out Hikaru Nakamura for "showing vulgarity" following his win over the current world champion, Gukesh Dommaraju, in an exhibition event called Checkmate: USA vs India. After registering a thrilling victory, Nakamura threw Gukesh's king into the crowd as he celebrated wildly, leaving even the Indian Grandmaster confused.

The clash between Gukesh and Nakamura was the final act of the five-match contest between some of India's and the USA's top stars. After the video went viral on social media, Levy Rozman, one of the world's most famous YouTubers, claimed that the idea of tossing the king into the crowd was not Nakamura's own; rather, it had come fro...