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.
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GM Jeffery Xiong emerged from a nine-way tie for first place, easily the most crowded standings in recent memory, to claim Titled Tuesday victory on January 18. Tiebreaks also placed GM Illia Nyzhnyk second, GM Alexey Sarana third, and IM Le Tuan ...
GM Alexey Sarana won Titled Tuesday on January 11 with a score of 9.5/11, a week after finishing in second place. He won on tiebreaks over second-place GM Aram Hakobyan and third-place Kacper Piorun. The top 10 was rounded out by seven players on ...
The first Titled Tuesday of 2022 went to GM David Howell on January 4. He scored 10/11 for an outright victory. In second place, also untied at 9.5/11, was GM Alexey Sarana. Meanwhile, seven players tied with nine points, with IM Pranav V in third...
GM Aleksey Dreev won Titled Tuesday on December 21 with a score of 9.5/11, after a big victory in the final round. He edged out second-place GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov on the tiebreak system. With nine points out of 11, GM Raunak Sadhwani won third ...
Another season of Chess.com's premier streaming event, Arena Kings, is in the books. Season 8 concluded on Wednesday, December 15, with GM Hikaru Nakamura (@Hikaru) winning the Championship Final and earning the $4,000 prize for first place. Nakam...
With a victory in the final round, GM Jose Martinez won Titled Tuesday on December 14 with a score of 10/11. Coming in second place was last week's victor, GM Jeffery Xiong, with 9.5/11. GM Alexey Sarana and NM Valery Sviridov had the best tiebrea...
GM Jeffery Xiong won his third Titled Tuesday of 2021 on December 7, scoring 10/11. FM Khazar Babazada also made a 10/11 score but finished second on tiebreak; it was his second straight top-three finish. In a rarity, they finished a full point ah...
There was a four-way tie at the top of the Titled Tuesday leaderboard on November 30, with NM Valery Sviridov winning on the tiebreak system. He was joined on 9.5/11 by GM Baadur Jobava in second place, FM Khazar Babazada in third, and GM Mustafa ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura took home his second Titled Tuesday of the month on November 23. With a score of 9.5/11 on +8 =3, Nakamura claimed victory on tiebreaks over IM Minh Le. GM Jeffery Xiong took third place for the second straight week, finishing w...
GM Dmitry Andreikin took home an outright and undefeated Titled Tuesday victory on November 16, scoring 10/11. GM Anton Demchenko finished in sole second, a half-point behind, with 9.5/11. In a three-way tie with a 9/11 score, GM Jeffery Xiong and...
In the most active Titled Tuesday since August, GM Rustam Khusnutdinov took home the victory with a 9.5/11 score, winning on the tiebreak system over second-place finisher GM Dmitrij Kollars. In a logjam on 9 points out of 11, two well-known GMs t...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the November 2 Titled Tuesday outright with 9.5/11, followed by a three-way tie for second place at 9 points out of 11. When the dust settled, that put GM Daniel Naroditsky in second place, GM Sergei Zhigalko in third, and G...
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the October 26 edition of Titled Tuesday with a score of 10/11. It was his first win in the event since January 19 and third overall. In sole second place was GM Jose Martinez with 9.5/11. Four players tied for the nex...
GM Hikaru Nakamura scored 10/11 and won Titled Tuesday on October 19, his first victory in the event since a perfect 11/11 performance on August 17. GM Boris Savchenko finished second ahead of third-place GM Alexander Zubov on the tiebreak score, ...
GM Jorden van Foreest took home first place in Titled Tuedsay on October 12, his first-ever win in the event. Van Foreest's score of 10/11, which he achieved while playing 1.a3 or 1...a6 in eight straight games, was enough to win without the tiebr...
The 2021 Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix concluded Saturday with the fourth and final leg. There were $11,000 in prizes to play for even though GM Jeffery Xiong had already clinched the overall Grand Prix standings and a spot in the Speed Ches...
14-year-old IM Christopher Yoo won his first Titled Tuesday this week, scoring 9.5 in the October 5 event to finish in sole first. There was a six-way tie for second place on 9 points out of 11. After tiebreakers were applied, GM Artem Timofeev ca...
GM Rustam Khusnutdinov won Titled Tuesday on September 14 by a full point with a score of 10.5/11. GM Rasmus Svane scored a sole second-place finish with 9.5/11 ahead of six players tied with 9/11. In third on tiebreaks was GM Arseniy Nesterov and...
The playoffs began today in PogChamps 4 presented by Coinbase. The action began with jakenbakeLIVE beating JustaMinx 2-0 in the consolation bracket. Then MrBeast gave Harry Mack a draw to start the second consolation quarterfinal of the day, ...
GM Nodirbek Yakubboev won the first Titled Tuesday of September, and his first since February 2020, with a score of 9.5/11, winning on the tiebreaker over GM Maksim Chigaev. GM Daniel Naroditsky took third with the best tiebreaker of the four...
Four matches today in PogChamps 4 presented by Coinbase, fairly well-played overall other than several occasions of the now-infamous Botez Gambit. It's just not PogChamps without a hanging queen or three. IamCristinini defeated Punz for her firs...
IM Minh Le won the August 31 Titled Tuesday outright with an undefeated 10/11 score, a repeat of his July 20 performance. Three players finished tied a half-point behind him, with GM Aleksei Priodrozhni taking second on tiebreaks, GM Vitaly Bernad...
PogChamps 4 presented by Coinbase entered day three with two matches. Both matches featured Group D, which after today is looking like perhaps the scariest in the field as even both players who lost their matches showed strong signs of chess abili...
