As far as chess tournaments go, the Louisiana State Championship and Iowa Open are not what you would describe as big-time events. The highest-ranked players from either event last year didn't even ...

Chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura has responded to widespread online backlash after he threw a king piece into the crowd during his victory celebration over Indian prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju at the ...

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 ...

One day in May, chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura was watching the last two moves of Felix “xQc” Lengyel’s online chess game. Ever-patient, Nakamura had been mentoring Lengyel, a top Twitch streamer ...

Profess chess player, streamer, disruptor — Hikaru Nakamura is all of them. Only one happens to be his ‘real’ job. The world No.3 chess player with over two million subscribers on YouTube and nearly ...

Pawn pushers at a couple of low-stakes chess tournaments in Iowa and Louisiana recently sat down at their boards only to discover a surprising competitor: one of the highest rated chess players ever ...

Amid the controversy between Vladimir Kramnik and Hikaru Nakamura, Young Indian chess grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi's former coach and mentor Srinath Narayanan has said that Nakamura accused the Indian ...

Chess star Hikaru Nakamura defeats D Gukesh in a bullet match, highlighting his career, net worth, online fame, and family. Andreas Kontokanis/Wikimedia Commons In a rare blend of speed, strategy, and ...