The grandmaster has competed in the Louisiana State Championship and Iowa Open this month. He won the latter by beating a ...

Hikaru Nakamura is strategically playing in weaker tournaments to maintain his high rating and secure a spot in the World ...

World No 2 Hikaru Nakamura is among the players who are in the fray to qualify for next year’s Candidates tournament, where ...

Magnus Carlsen did not mince words while discussing Hikaru Nakamura’s strategy to qualify for next year’s Candidates ...

World No. 2 Hikaru Nakamura secured a comfortable title win at the Iowa Open. Nakamura’s decision to target such lower-rated ...

For someone ranked No. 2 in the world, playing competitive games of chess sits curiously low on grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura’s list of priorities. “I look at it as something to do to get away from ...

The attention of the chess world is fixed on one of its greatest tournaments, starting this week, with one man drawing plenty of attention for all the right reasons. The Candidates tournament is an ...

At the U.S. Chess Championships under way in St. Louis, all eyes are on America's top-ranked player, and the favorite going into the tournament, Hikaru Nakamura. During the past decade, Nakamura has ...