“Rav Chaim is a Talmid Chacham, not a Posek (Not to take away from his Gadlus, he says so himself)”
So I don’t have to follow an edict upon which his name is signed?
Why would you think that you would have to? Is he your personal Rov (as opposed to Softwords, for whome he might be)? Of course you don’t.
DY: As we sometimes say here, thank you kindly.