Nathaniel Green is a staff writer for Chess.com who writes articles, player biographies, Titled Tuesday reports, video scripts, and more. He has been playing chess for about 30 years and resides near Washington, DC, USA.
Another regular season of Arena Kings in the books, with the Championship Final of Season 9 coming next week. Week 12 ended the way the last four weeks had, with a victory for GM Hikaru Nakamura. Despite falling behind 2-0 in the final against GM ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won a Titled Tuesday event for the third straight week on April 26 and was joined in the day's winners' circle by GM Baadur Jobava after the late tournament. For the second time in three weeks, no one played quite consistently e...
There were multiway ties at the top in both Titled Tuesday tournaments on April 19, but they produced two familiar winners. GM Hikaru Nakamura had the best tiebreaks of three players on 9.5/11 in the early tournament, while GM Dmitry Andreikin won...
Another dramatic match ensued at the 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG on Thursday, with GM Awonder Liang edging out GM Andrew Hong by a mere point after winning the final game of the match. It was a tough bout, with non...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his third consecutive Arena Kings on April 13 and has now claimed victory in all six weeks he's played in Season 9. For the second straight week, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk was Nakamura's opponent in the final while the semif...
World Rapid Champion GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the early edition of Titled Tuesday while GM Hikaru Nakamura, who did not play last week, won the late tournament. Both players took their tournament outright with a score of 10/11. It was also a r...
The main event of the 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG gets going on Monday, April 11, and Chess.com is running a contest for you the viewer as well! We are offering $1,500 in cash prizes and over a dozen diamond mem...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi earned Titled Tuesday victories on April 5. GM Vladimir Fedoseev had to settle for second place in both events, and by a thin tiebreak margin in the late tournament. GM Alexey Sarana and IM Volodar Mu...
The March 30 Arena Kings featured one of the more entertaining knockout rounds of the season, although it ended fairly predictably with a victory for GM Hikaru Nakamura. He defeated IM Le Tuan Minh in the final in a 3-0 sweep. The s...
On a well-deserved off day in the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix after becoming a candidate for the world championship for the first time since 2016, GM Hikaru Nakamura won the early Titled Tuesday tournament on March 29. Meanwhile, GM Dmitry Andreikin co...
Arena Kings returned on March 23 after a one-week hiatus as GM Jose Martinez came back from down 2-1 to defeat IM Renato Terry in an all-Peru final. The semifinalists this week were GM Sergey Zhigalko and IM Mahammad Muradli as...
It took the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix, where GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Daniil Dubov were both playing on Tuesday, to break their two-week Titled Tuesday winning streak. In their places were GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, winning the early tournament, and GM Dmit...
For the second consecutive week, the winners of the March 15 Titled Tuesday were GM Daniil Dubov and GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura, GM Dmitry Andreikin, and GM Amin Tabatabaei all finished in the top five in both events, while&n...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the sixth week of Arena Kings on Wednesday, just moments before beginning a quarterfinal match in the Bullet Chess Championship. He defeated GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in the Arena Kings final. This week's semifinalists we...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the early edition of Titled Tuesday on March 8, scoring 9.5/11 after defeating GM Daniil Dubov in the final round and winning on tiebreaks. Dubov went on to win the late edition and was the only player to reach the top five ...
It was the first of two Chess960 weeks in Season 9 of Arena Kings when GM Vugar Rasulov emerged victorious, defeating GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in the finals by a 3.5-2.5 score. Bortnyk had advanced by defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura in the semifinals, wh...
GMs Jose Martinez and Aryan Tari won Titled Tuesday on March 1. They both held off GM Hikaru Nakamura, who finished third in the early tournament and second in the late event while streaming for 12 hours to support Ukraine. GM Raunak Sadhwani fini...
After missing two straight weeks during his victory in the first part of the FIDE Grand Prix, GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to Arena Kings for the fourth week of season nine and took home the victory in the finals over GM Baadur Jobava. The semifina...
GM Baadur Jobava and GM Daniel Naroditsky, some of the earliest winners of Titled Tuesday back in 2014, won Titled Tuesday again on February 22, 2022. Neither player needed the tiebreak system as Jobava had the best score of the day with 10/1...
GM Raunak Sadhwani earned the win in the third week of the ninth season of Arena Kings on Wednesday, holding off IM Le Tuan Minh in the finals with a score of 3-2, which just stopped Le from a second consecutive victory. The semifina...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won his first Titled Tuesday in nearly a year, while GM Hans Niemann earned his first-ever victory. For the first time in the three weeks since Titled Tuesday expanded to two tournaments, no one placed in the top five in both ...
A week after finishing in third place, IM Le Tuan Minh earned a victory in the second week of Arena Kings Season 9 on Wednesday. He defeated GM Vugar Rasulov in a close 3-2 final (+2 -1 =2). Semifinalists GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Jose Martine...
GM Kirill Shevchenko, who also won Titled Tuesday on June 15, 2021, won the early tournament on February 8 and finished third in the late tournament. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the late tournament. Both players won outright, Shevchenko with 10/11...
On the first Tuesday of the revamped Titled Tuesday with two tournaments a day, a familiar face won both events: GM Hikaru Nakamura, who twice scored 9.5/11. Also earning a prize in both tournaments was GM Jose Martinez, who finished fourth in the...
