Hikaru Nakamura
American chess player
- In this Japanese name, the family name is Nakamura.
Christopher Hikaru Nakamura (中村光, Nakamura Hikaru) (born December 9, 1987) is a professional chess player and net streamer and is the leading U.S. chess grandmaster (GM).[1] He was born on 9 December 1987 in Japan (Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture). His parents moved to the United States of America when he was two. He has won the U.S. chess championship five times, and represented the United States of America at five Chess Olympiads.
| Hikaru Nakamura | |
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| Full name | Hikaru Nakamura |
| Country |  United States |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2787 (#6 in the Jan 2016 FIDE ranking list) |
| Peak rating | 2816 (October 2015) |
In 2011, Nakamura won the Tata Steel Grandmaster A tournament in Wijk aan Zee. His opponents included world #1 and defending champion Magnus Carlsen, former world champion Viswanathan Anand, world #2 Levon Aronian, and former world champion Vladimir Kramnik.
References
change- ↑ Marshall, Cass (2021-04-09). "The chess grandmaster drama that led to a fistfight, explained". Polygon. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
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