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.
There was no shortage of name recognition atop this week's Titled Tuesday standings, with GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Hans Niemann claiming victory on April 29. Both won without the need of tiebreaks and without losing a single game, although Nak...
GM Sina Movahed, a 14-year-old chess prodigy out of Iran (whose name seems to befit a chess player), won Freestyle Friday on April 25. For the first time in a month, only nine points were needed for victory, as Movahed won out on tiebreaks ahead o...
GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, the 13-year-old Turkish phenom, won his first-ever Titled Tuesday on April 22, scoring 10 points in a clean win. Later, GM Magnus Carlsen won his third consecutive late Titled Tuesday, this one coming off of a perfect 9/9 s...
GM Bogdan Daniel Deac and GM Magnus Carlsen took home the Titled Tuesday first-place prizes on April 15 (it may have been tax day in the United States, but they're not due in either Romania or Norway yet). Both players scored 10 points, although D...
Freestyle Friday on April 11 came down to the final round, where GM Christopher Yoo defeated a pressing GM Magnus Carlsen to reach 10/11 and lock up the event by a full point ahead of GM Sam Sevian, GM Leon Luke Mendonca, and IM Jakub Kosakowski. ...
Hope you were watching Titled Tuesday on April 8, where GM Magnus Carlsen won the second tournament with a perfect 11/11 score. It was Carlsen's third perfect Titled Tuesday, moving him into the sole lead in that statistic ahead of GM Hikaru Nakam...
It took a few months for GM Hikaru Nakamura to win his first Freestyle Friday, but just a week later, he won his second. Whereas last week Nakamura needed tiebreaks after a final-round setback, this week he won outright with 10 points after achiev...
GM Liem Le and GM Hikaru Nakamura are your winners of Titled Tuesday on April 1, Nakamura after finishing second in the early event. Tiebreaks were not necessary to determine either winner or even Nakamura's second-place finish. It was Le's second...
GM Hikaru Nakamura took home his first Freestyle Friday on March 28, scoring nine points and winning on tiebreaks against four other players on the same score: GMs Alexey Sarana, Jose Martinez, Jeffery Xiong, and Christopher Yoo. It was the third ...
GM Javokhir Sindarov won the early Titled Tuesday on March 25 on tiebreaks ahead of World Champion GM Gukesh Dommaraju and GM Hikaru Nakamura, although Nakamura scored his 9.5 points in just 10 games after missing round three, which also hurt his ...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won Freestyle Friday on March 21 in what was the closest yet of the nine tournaments so far, but ultimately, his second win following one on January 31. And while Bortnyk lost in the final round, which created a five-way tie f...
GM Mamikon Gharibyan and GM Denis Lazavik are your winners for the March 18 Titled Tuesday tournaments, both winning outright by half a point. Lazavik came that same half-point from sweeping the day, finishing second in the early tournament and th...
It was naturally a lot harder than winning one game of tic-tac-toe, but GM Arjun Erigaisi has nonetheless won three consecutive Freestyle Friday tournaments. Arjun, who is not a Chess960 specialist per se, is sure treating this variant as a p...
Don't adjust your calendars: GMs Magnus Carlsen and Parham Maghsoodloo won Titled Tuesday on February 11, and they've done it again on March 11. Neither player was quite as dominant as they were a month ago, both scoring 9.5 points this week. Carl...
Freestyle Friday is still a relatively new event, with its seventh-ever rendition being held on March 7. In it, GM Arjun Erigaisi set two firsts: he became the first player to win any two Freestyle Fridays and the first player to win two in a row....
The first Titled Tuesdays of March were decided in two quite different ways: GM Alexey Sarana won the early event out of a three-way tie on 9.5 points, while GM Benjamin Bok won the late event by a full point with a score of 10/11. After several p...
GM Arjun Erigaisi won Freestyle Friday outright over a field of 307 players on February 28, doing so with a win over erstwhile leader GM Shant Sargsyan in the final round. GM Hikaru Nakamura ended up taking second place from Sargsyan on tiebreaks,...
Eight players have qualified for the 3-Check Chess Championship 2025 Knockout, the second event of this year's Community Chess Championships (following January's Puzzle Championship). The eight hopefuls for the Knockout ended up being FM Luuk Base...
Iran's current and former number-one players, GM Parham Maghsoodloo and France's GM Alireza Firouzja, were your Titled Tuesday winners on February 25. Maghsoodloo won outright with 10 points, while Firouzja needed tiebreaks for his 9.5 points to w...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda won Freestyle Friday on February 21, becoming the fifth player to win one in the first five weeks of the event. More notably, this victory comes on the heels of a win in the late Titled Tuesday on February 18, making Duda the...
GM Matthias Bluebaum won the early Titled Tuesday on February 18 with a near-perfect score (the second straight week someone scored 10.5 points) and took the lead in the Titled Tuesday Grand Prix standings. GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda then took the late...
GM Sam Sevian won Freestyle Friday on February 14, scoring 9.5 points for an outright victory and becoming the first U.S. player to win a Freestyle Friday. There were 380 players in today's event, which began only hours after the conclusion of the...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Parham Maghsoodloo were your Titled Tuesday winners on February 11. Carlsen won outright on 10.5 points and Maghsoodloo also won outright, with 10 points. It was the first win of 2025 for both of them, although each also won...
Several NFL stars, as well as GM Maurice Ashley and FM James Canty, joined Chess.com, in collaboration with NFL Legends, in the festivities before the Super Bowl on Canal Street in New Orleans this Friday, February 7. Current and former NFL p...
Freestyle Friday on February 7 was no less entertaining with another Freestyle Chess event happening at the same time. By the end of the seventh round, none of the 437 players had a perfect score, leaving the identity of the final victor in suspen...
