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Hikaru Nakamura: 2816 2015-10 1987 Formerly highest-ranked American player (2011–2015) China: Ding Liren: 2816 2018-11 1992 Highest-ranked Chinese player (since 2015), former World Chess Champion (2023–2024) 13 Russia: Alexander Grischuk: 2810 2014-12 1983 14 Iran France: Alireza Firouzja: 2804 2021-12 2003
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.
In 2021, Hikaru Nakamura published a Youtube video entitled "Hikaru's Hot Takes on the Ten Best Chess Players of All Time" [47] in which he reviewed a chess.com article on "The 10 Best Chess Players Of All Time." [48] In this video he suggested that it was unfair to exclude Paul Morphy and Viswanathan Anand from the 10 greatest players of all ...
Rank Player Rating 1 Magnus Carlsen: 2831 2 Fabiano Caruana: 2803 3 Hikaru Nakamura: 2802 4 Arjun Erigaisi: 2801 5 Gukesh Dommaraju: 2777 6 Nodirbek Abdusattorov
Hikaru Nakamura plays chess like he talks — at a hundred miles an hour. The 35-year-old grandmaster has been the top ranked US player for over a decade and livestreams rapid fire games of online ...
January 2024 FIDE Rankings Rank Prev Player Rating Change 1 1 Magnus Carlsen: 2830 0 2 2 Fabiano Caruana: 2804 +10 3 3 Hikaru Nakamura: 2788 0 4 4 Ding Liren: 2780 0 5 5 Ian Nepomniachtchi: 2769 -2 6 6 Alireza Firouzja: 2759 -4 7 8 Wesley So: 2757 +5 8 11 Leinier Domínguez: 2752 +7 9 9 Sergey Karjakin: 2750 0 10 7 Anish Giri: 2749 -5
He would dominate for 22 years from 1984 until his retirement from professional chess on 10 March 2005, with three brief interruptions: Anatoly Karpov briefly held the world number one ranking again in July 1985, as well as during 1994 when FIDE excluded Kasparov from the list; and the fourth world number one, Vladimir Kramnik, briefly held the ...
The FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022 (WFRCC) was the second official world championship in Fischer Random Chess (also known as Chess960). [1] [2] The competition followed a similar format to the first championship in 2019, with qualifying stages open to all interested participants taking place online on chess.com and Lichess, and four qualified players joined four invited ...