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 Hans Niemann won Freestyle Friday with a round still to play on November 14, becoming the ninth multi-time winner of the event. Niemann raced out to a 6/6 start before facing his only setback, a seventh-round loss to GM Haik Martirosyan, t...
Eleven was the number of the day, with GM Magnus Carlsen winning the 11th Titled Tuesday of the current season on November 11 by scoring a perfect 11/11. In the last four rounds, he toppled a quartet of top rivals in GMs Hans Niemann, Alireza Firo...
GM Denis Lazavik won Titled Tuesday on November 4, seizing the outright lead away from GM Jose Martinez in the final round on a day where such tournament lead changes were typical. GM Magnus Carlsen took second place ahead of Martinez while G...
On a Halloween edition of Freestyle Friday, GM Hikaru Nakamura scored a victory on October 31 after missing the past few tournaments. Nakamura was 1.5 points behind the lead after five rounds, but with the tenacity akin to a horror movie anta...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won Titled Tuesday on October 28, taking his last seven games of the tournament for a come-from-behind outright victory on 10 points out of 11. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was actually the only player not to lose a game during t...
IM Renato Terry won Freestyle Friday on October 24 by taking his last six games, breaking a tie with GM Jules Moussard in the final round by winning head-to-head with Black. The win was Terry's second in Freestyle Friday, the first coming back in ...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo won Titled Tuesday on October 21, scoring 9.5 points and winning on the tiebreak score over GM Hikaru Nakamura after Nakamura and GM Magnus Carlsen made a draw with each other in the final round. In his post-tournam...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the October 17 Freestyle Friday in fine fashion, scoring 10 points to clear the field by 1.5 points. It was Carlsen's first win in the event since August 15, which was also the last time anyone scored 10 points. He hadn't rea...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday on October 14, his third of the Autumn Split and first since the recent birth of his son, leading commentator GM David Howell to dub the champion "Daddy Carlsen." Carlsen flirted with a perfect score after reac...
GM Arjun Erigaisi, who won three straight Freestyle Fridays in February and March, finally got back in the win column in the tournament on October 10 for his long-awaited fourth victory. The undefeated Arjun's 9.5 points were enough to win outrigh...
GM Alireza Firouzja won a tense Titled Tuesday on October 7, taking it on tiebreaks ahead of GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda after they all posted a 9.5/11 score. GM Xiao Tong, a 16-year old grandmaster rated over 3100 in Chess.com...
GM Pranesh M won Freestyle Friday (his first) with a round to spare on October 3, gliding to a 9.5/10 start in the field of 116 players. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk finished in second place with nine points after becoming the first player to finally beat...
Arena Kings got a fresh new start on October 1; the new monthly version of Arena Kings continues to showcase the Chess.com streaming community as it always has, and only adds to that sense of community by allowing players to join together in a lar...
"HN" won another Titled Tuesday on September 30, but this time it was GM Hans Niemann who took home the victory, while last week's winner GM Hikaru Nakamura was runner-up this week. Only two draws kept the undefeated Niemann from a perfect score, ...
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...
