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.
PogChamps 4 presented by Coinbase has begun, and day one was quite the show, headlined not by action on the board but by Harry Mack's crowd-pleasing improvisation with his trademark freestyle rap. Action began with Magic: The Gathering star and ...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo won Titled Tuesday this week with a 9.5/11 score, beating out second-place IM Minh Le and third-place GM Rustam Khusnutdinov on tiebreakers. GM Dmitry Andreikin finished fourth on 9/11. Maghsoodloo previously won Titled Tuesd...
GM Hikaru Nakamura set an unbreakable Titled Tuesday record on August 17, becoming the first player to score a perfect 11/11. Nakamura won first place by 1.5 points coming on the heels of a victory in the over-the-board Saint Louis Rapid & Bli...
GM Sam Sevian won Titled Tuesday on August 10 by a full point with 10/11, ahead of eight players tied for second on 9/11. The tiebreakers worked out in some strong players' favor, as all of the top-four finishers were among the eight highest-rated...
Arena Kings Season 7 concluded on Wednesday, August 4, with GM Jose Martinez (@Jospem) emerging victorious, earning the $4,000 prize for first place. Martinez won an additional $725 during the season for a total earnings of $4,725. 👏 Congratul...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu won his first Titled Tuesday on August 3, with a score of 9.5/11. He won on tiebreaks over GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Dmitry Andreikin, who also scored 9.5/11. In fourth place was GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan with the best ...
GM Haik Martirosyan defeated GM Arjun Erigaisi in the Tuesday quarterfinal of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid with a 15.5-13.5 score. Martirosyan consistently held early leads in each section and held off several str...
For the third time in four weeks, GM Hikaru Nakamura has taken first place in Titled Tuesday. His 9.5 points out of 11 were enough to finish ahead of GM Giga Quparadze on tiebreaks. GM Raunak Sadhwani and GM Aleksey Sarana rounded out the top four...
On International Chess Day, Vietnam's IM Minh Le took first place in Titled Tuesday with a score of 10/11. GM Hikaru Nakamura grabbed second with 9.5/11. The top four was rounded out by GM Giga Quparadze and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk. 472 titled play...
Netflix's 2020 megahit miniseries The Queen's Gambit has garnered 18 Emmy nominations, including best Limited Series and best Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Anya Taylor-Joy's widely acclaimed performance as Beth Harmon. Thomas Brodi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won Titled Tuesday for the second consecutive week, scoring 9.5/11 and finishing ahead of GM Giga Quparadze on tiebreakers. There was a tie for third as both GM Sergei Zhigalko and GM Tamir Nabaty finished with 9/11 and the same...
July's Winner Stays event occurred on July 9. For the second straight month, streamer Ludwig and Youtuber NM Kurt Hugo Schneider won their matchups, as ChessBrah Aman Hambleton was joined this time on commentary by NM James Canty III. In the Maste...
For the first time in the main event of the 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship, the lower seed won in an upset as #10 IM Christopher Yoo defeated #7 GM Hans Niemann by a score of 23-9 on Thursday. The next match in the championship is GM Nihal...
GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the top of Titled Tuesday this week, winning outright with a score of 10/11. GM Parham Maghsoodloo, coming off a win in the Round of 16 in the Junior Speed Chess Championship, scored 9.5/11 for second place. Five pla...
GM Vidit Gujrathi won Titled Tuesday on June 29 with 9.5 points out of 11. He held the tiebreaker advantage over second-place GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and third-place GM Baadur Jobava. GM Hikaru Nakamura finished with 9/11 for fourth place after tiebr...
While others have come close, GM Anton Korobov became the first player to score 10.5/11 in Titled Tuesday, earning him a full-point tournament victory on June 22. GM Aryan Tari came in second with 9.5/11 on a tiebreak over GM Oleksandr Bortnyk. Ro...
GM Kirill Shevchenko, the 18-year-old grandmaster from Ukraine, won Titled Tuesday on June 15 for his first-ever win in the event. His 10/11 score took the tournament outright. In second with 9.5/11 was GM Alexander Zubov on tiebreaks over th...
GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the top of Titled Tuesday on June 8, winning outright with a score of 10/11. Iranian GM Amin Tabatabaei took clear second with 9.5/11 ahead of nine players tied at 9/11. Of those, last week's winner GM Nodirbek Abdus...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, the 16-year-old rising star from Uzbekistan, won Titled Tuesday on June 1 with a score of 10/11 after defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura in the final round. Nakamura finished in second place on tiebreaks with a score of 9.5/11,...
GM Jeffery Xiong won the May 25 Titled Tuesday tournament outright with a score of 10/11, his second win in as many months. GM Vladimir Dobrov finished second with 9.5/11 on a tiebreak over third-place GM Salem Saleh after both won in the final ro...
GM Levan Pantsulaia won the May 18 Titled Tuesday tournament with a score of 9.5/11. Five players finished on that score but Pantsulaia held the advantage on tiebreaks for his first-ever Titled Tuesday victory. GM Vladislav Artemiev (last week's w...
GM Vladislav Artemiev won the May 11 Titled Tuesday tournament with a score of 10/11. Of seven players tied for second place entering the final round, three won to finish on 9.5/11. After tiebreaks, GM Daniil Dubov took second place, GM Levan Pant...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the May 4 Titled Tuesday on tiebreaks, his third win in his last three attempts (while playing the New In Chess Classic on April 27 instead). GM Haik Martirosyan finished second and GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac third, all on 9.5/11...
GM Jeffery Xiong won the April 27 Titled Tuesday tournament. One of four players to finish with 9.5/11, Xiong held the tiebreak advantage over GM Sam Sevian, GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, and GM Conrad Holt, who finished 2nd-4th, respectively. Xiong had...
