The 2023 American Cup continued in St. Louis on Monday with championship bracket semifinals that were won by GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So respectively. Nakamura was in fine form with the black pieces and outplayed GM Lenier Dominguez in the middlegame to take his match 1.5-0.5, while So required rapid playoffs to overcome the …
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GM Hikaru Nakamura was the sole winner on the first day of The 2023 American Cup, defeating GM Sam Sevian in a game that featured weak pawn structures and instructive endgame technique in St. Louis. Hard-fought draws materialized on the other three boards of the eight-player knockout event while in the women’s category, wins for …
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GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda were the winners of Titled Tuesday on March 14, both of them scoring 9.5 points. Nakamura edged out GM Daniil Dubov on tiebreaks early while Duda won outright late. GM Arjun Erigaisi scored two top-five finishes, including second place late. Early Tournament 289 players participated in the early …
GM Magnus Carlsen will return to Norway Chess, his homecoming tournament, after he abdicates his world champion title, it was announced on Monday. Once again, the world number-one tops the lineup for the elite event—now in its 11th year—held in the southwestern city of Stavanger from May 29 to June 9. In a matchup that …
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On Saturday, top GMs Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura as well as WGM Jennifer Shahade took part in a panel discussion at the MIT Sloan School of Management’s annual Sports Analytics Conference in Boston. The three talked about the further growth of the game of chess together with Daryl Morey, the President of basketball operations …
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In the nearly 180 Titled Tuesdays since the event moved to 11 rounds on October 20, 2020, GM Hikaru Nakamura has now won 50, a ridiculous percentage of nearly 30% despite hundreds of participants gunning for first place in every tournament. His victory in the late event on February 28 was his 50th, after GM …
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GM Hikaru Nakamura was the convincing winner of the second edition of Chess.com’s newest titled arena, Bullet Brawl, after scoring 65 wins, four draws, and 12 losses en route to claiming the $1,000 prize for first. Familiar faces in GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Jose Martinez Alcantara round out the podium of the two-hour, 1+0 event …
As the Pro Chess League‘s second week reached its conclusion on Thursday, two teams, the Croatia Bulldogs and the Gotham Knights secured narrow match wins over the Berlin Bears and the California Unicorns. Following a hard-fought loss in week one, the Bulldogs were able to bounce back and battle their way to a 9-7 victory …
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GM Hikaru Nakamura won his third consecutive Titled Tuesday in the early tournament on February 21. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave followed up with a win in the late tournament. Both won with 9.5 points out of 11. GM Fabiano Caruana was another top player of the day, finishing in the top five both times while coming …
For the second straight week, there was only one first-place finisher in the week’s two Titled Tuesday events. And for the fourth time out of five total, it was GM Hikaru Nakamura who accomplished the feat. Nakamura didn’t even need tiebreak scoring this time, winning both events outright. The 2023 Pro Chess League also began …
