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.
GM Alexander Grischuk won his second Freestyle Friday of the year on September 26, recovering from a 1.5/3 start by winning his last eight games to clear the 135-player field by a full point. GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Jan-Krzysztof Duda were Grischu...
GM Hikaru Nakamura took his first Titled Tuesday in the new system on September 23, entering the top four of the Champions Chess Tour standings. Other than two quick draws in the seventh and eighth rounds, he scored every possible point on his way...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won Freestyle Friday on September 19, his seventh, reaching his final score of nine points with a win in the final round against GM Sina Movahed. Movahed, who was attempting to win the event for the third straight week, retained...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday for the second straight week on September 16, scoring 10.5 points with only a draw against GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda preventing him from the perfect 11/11 in what he called "definitely one of my more comfortable Ti...
Iranian teenage GM Sina Movahed won his second consecutive Freestyle Friday, and his third overall, in a field of 115 on September 12 after beating out GMs Magnus Carlsen, Arseniy Nesterov, and Denis Lazavik by a full point. There were two ke...
The late Titled Tuesday tournament may no longer run, but that doesn't mean the Tuesday chess action stops after one tournament, with the previously announced Titled Tuesday After Party happening each week as well. The inaugural After Party, a two...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday by a full point on September 9, but don't let the final margin fool you into thinking the result was a runaway. Tied with GM Alireza Firouzja entering the final round of play, Carlsen needed to defeat GM Hikaru...
GM Sina Movahed has become the sixth two-time winner of Freestyle Friday, winning his last six games on September 5 to take first place on tiebreaks ahead of GM Zhamsaran Tsydypov, and 1.5 points ahead of the rest of the 116-player field. The...
The next era of Titled Tuesday began on September 2 with GM Alexey Sarana taking home the honors in the day's only tournament. With 9.5 points, Sarana was able to come out ahead of GM Andrey Esipenko on tiebreaks for his second consecutive victory...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won his fourth Freestyle Friday on August 29, moving past GM Arjun Erigaisi for the second-most in the tournament's brief history, trailing only GM Hikaru Nakamura. It was Nakamura who finished second this week, half a point b...
On the day Chess.com announced several changes to Titled Tuesday, including the retirement of the late tournament, GMs Minh Le and Alexey Sarana became the last players to split the day's glory. Le was nearly perfect, scoring 10.5 points with only...
On August 19, for the second time in less than two years, GM Magnus Carlsen swept both Titled Tuesdays on a single day. Carlsen also won last week's late event, giving him three in a row overall. He won both of today's events outright, including a...
Just days after stopping a Titled Tuesday sweep in its tracks, GM Magnus Carlsen won Freestyle Friday ahead of GM Hikaru Nakamura on August 15. It was the second straight Friday in which they finished in the top two, this time in the opposite orde...
Not for the first time, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen were your Titled Tuesday winners on August 12. Nakamura defeated GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in the final round of the first tournament, winning it on tiebreaks over Bortnyk and two others. I...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his sixth Freestyle Friday on August 8, now three more than anyone else after 29 editions of the event. This day's top three places were all awarded outright, Nakamura on 10 points, GM Magnus Carlsen on 9.5 points, and GM Ol...
One country was consistently at the top of Titled Tuesday on August 5 as GMs Amin Tabatabaei, Parham Maghsoodloo, Sina Movahed all scored 10/11 in one of the day's events. The scores were enough for Tabatabaei to win the early event outright and f...
GM Vladislav Artemiev, who also participated in the 2025 Esports World Cup this week, has taken home the first Freestyle Friday of August, the fourth straight week where someone won the event for the first time. The tournament still in the balance...
The last Titled Tuesdays of July saw two players, GMs Maksim Chigaev and Salem Saleh, win their first of 2025. For Chigaev, it had been nearly a decade since his previous victory on June 7, 2016, while Saleh previously won on June 28, 2022. Chigae...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi doesn't really need to add too many more accomplishments to his resume, but he did that on July 25 by winning his first Freestyle Friday ahead of GMs Jeffery Xiong and Jan-Krzysztof Duda on tiebreaks. The field of 175 pl...
Both Titled Tuesday events of July 22 were close, but in the end, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Bogdan-Daniel Deac won out. They scored 9.5 points each, beating out GMs Jeffery Xiong and Matthias Bluebaum, respectively, on tiebreaks. Both Nakamura ...
For the third time in seven weeks, Freestyle Friday was almost over before it started on July 18, with GM Dmitry Andreikin becoming the third player to take the tournament on a perfect 11/11 score, following GM Jeffery Xiong on June 6 and GM Hikar...
For GM Alexey Sarana, the early Titled Tuesday tournament on July 15 was his 16th career win in the event, and his third of the year. For up-and-coming GM Sina Movahed, the late tournament was his first ever. The established player was the one ...
In the last Freestyle Friday before the July 16-20 Grand Slam event in Las Vegas, the final qualifier for the Grand Slam, GM Hans Niemann, won his first Freestyle Friday after several near-misses. Draws in the eighth and 10th rounds were all ...
GM Nihal Sarin and GM Hikaru Nakamura are your winners for the July 8 editions of Titled Tuesday. Nakamura also finished third in the early tournament, and after he started out 8/8 in the late event, his 3416 Chess.com Blitz rating had set a new a...
With summer now in full swing (in the northern hemisphere), the July 1 Titled Tuesday events were both heated competitions, each ending in a three-way tie. After tiebreaks, GM Pranav Venkatesh and GM Parham Maghsoodloo emerged as the victors. GM P...
