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Christopher Hikaru Nakamura [2] (born December 9, 1987) is an American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy , he earned his grandmaster title at the age of 15, the youngest American at the time to do so.
The top three finishers turned out to be the top three seeds, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Hikaru Nakamura. All three were ranked among the top 10 in the world at the time, [2] so this tournament represents the first time Kasparov played against top chess players since his retirement in 2005. The total prize fund for the tournament was US ...
The players affected in the 2024 Candidates are R Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi and Gukesh Dommaraju from India, and Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura from the United States. The former three all faced one another in rounds 1–3 and 8–10, while the latter two faced each other in rounds 1 and 8.
In 1974, popular chess author Irving Chernev published an article titled Who were the greatest? in the English magazine CHESS. [29] He followed this up with his 1976 book The Golden Dozen, in which he ranked his all-time top twelve: 1. Capablanca, 2. Alekhine, 3. Lasker, 4. Fischer, 5. Botvinnik, 6. Petrosian, 7. Tal, 8. Smyslov, 9. Spassky, 10.
Fabiano Caruana (runner-up) 32 2803 2 Levon Aronian (third place) 42 2747 11 The three highest rated players in the April 2024 FIDE rankings: Hikaru Nakamura: 37 2802 3 Nodirbek Abdusattorov: 20 2768 6 Alireza Firouzja: 21 2763 7 Organizer's wild card (international) [a] Viswanathan Anand (withdrew) 55 2750 10 Organizer's wild card (local) [b ...
The Grand Chess Tour 2024 was a series of chess tournaments, which was the ninth edition of the Grand Chess Tour.It consisted of five tournaments with a total prize pool of US$1.4 million, including two tournaments with classical time control and three tournaments with faster time controls.
Hikaru Nakamura (2) 1–0: E15 Queen's Indian Defence, Fianchetto Variation, Nimzowistch Variation: Fabiano Caruana (2½) Sergey Karjakin (3½) ½–½: E15 Queen's Indian Defence, Fianchetto Variation, Check Variation, Intermezzo Line: Round 7 – 19 March 2016: Peter Svidler (2½) Fabiano Caruana (3) ½–½: A35 English, Symmetrical, Four ...
[2] [3] Carlsen reportedly handpicked the seven other competitors – Ding Liren, Fabiano Caruana, Alireza Firouzja, Gukesh D, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Vincent Keymer and Levon Aronian. [4] [5] [6] Chess960 World Champion Hikaru Nakamura was invited, but declined to participate, possibly in order to focus on the upcoming Candidates Tournament. [7]