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.
Welcome to Freestyle Friday! In the inaugural edition of this event, 476 players took their shot at becoming its first champion, a very auspicious sign in what is sure to become a can't-miss part of every week for players, spectators, and Freestyl...
Titled Tuesday set a participation record for the third straight week on January 21, with 996 players joining, the most of the doubles era (since February 1, 2022). GM Hikaru Nakamura won his second straight Titled Tuesday in the event with tiebre...
On January 14, Titled Tuesday cracked 900 participants for the first time since June 2, 2020, with a total of 905 players. It was the second straight week setting the doubles era record (since February 1, 2022). Out of those 905 hopeful winners, t...
The first Titled Tuesdays of 2025 were held on January 7, and they were doozies, featuring record-level participation, big scores, and stacked podiums... all as players begin to scramble to qualify for the 2025 Speed Chess Championships through th...
The last four Titled Tuesday tournaments of 2024 were held on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, and featured four individual tournament winners... plus one additional big winner. GM Magnus Carlsen celebrated Christmas Eve this year by winning th...
Two of the world's best blitz players added Titled Tuesday winner to their list of 2024 accomplishments on December 17, with GM Parham Maghsoodloo winning the early tournament outright on 10 points, followed by GM Daniel Naroditsky scoring 9.5 poi...
A week after both Titled Tuesday tournaments were decided by tiebreaks, this week both tournaments were full-point triumphs for the victors. Those winners were GM Volodymyr Onyshchuk in the first event of the day and GM Jeffery Xiong in the s...
Both Titled Tuesday events of December 3 went down to the wire, with GM Denis Lazavik emerging ahead of GMs Javokhir Sindarov and Matthias Bluebaum in the early tournament on tiebreaks, and GM Hikaru Nakamura getting the tiebreak over GM Alireza F...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Christopher Yoo were the Titled Tuesday victors on November 26. Carlsen, who won outright on 10 points, got his first Titled Tuesday win of November in the last week of November—and now has at least one win every month...
On November 19, GM Hikaru Nakamura became the first player ever to win four straight Titled Tuesdays, and nearly became the first to win five in a row and sweep two consecutive weeks. Nakamura was able to just squeak out a win on tiebreaks over GM...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has done it again, winning both tournaments of Titled Tuesday on November 12. It is his eighth time achieving the feat of double victory since the second weekly event was added in February 2022—no one else has done it more...
GMs Dmitry Andreikin and GM Hikaru Nakamura are your Titled Tuesday victors from November 5, the second straight week where both winners scored 10 points and neither winner needed the tiebreaks. In the early tournament won by Andreikin, however, t...
The biggest chess game in history has concluded. In just 24 moves, GM Viswanathan Anand convincingly defeated nearly 70,000 opponents in the game known simply as Vishy vs. the World. HE'S DONE IT! @vishy64theking 👑🇮🇳Vishy has made chess histor...
It was a good Titled Tuesday for the greats on October 29, with GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Alireza Firouzja claiming victory, each scoring 10 points and avoiding tiebreaks in their win. The two stars also won Titled Tuesday back on July 30 (in the...
GMs Nikolas Theodorou and Jeffery Xiong took home the Titled Tuesday tournaments of October 22, both scoring 9.5 points. It was Theodoru's first win in Titled Tuesday and Xiong's 14th since October 2020, and Xiong's third of 2024. Tiebreaks w...
FM Luis Chan, who has been playing the variant since its inception, is your winner of the 2024 Chess.com Fog Of War Chess Championship. Chan survived a Grand Final Reset forced by FM Yihe Fu: After dropping the first match of the Finals in the dou...
Two international masters, including last month's Chess.com Community Champion in Duck Chess, IM Nhat Minh To, and four FIDE masters were among those to qualify for the Finals of the Chess.com Fog Of War Chess Championship 2024, after the series o...
GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the top of the Titled Tuesday standings on October 15, winning the late event with 9.5 points after finishing third in the early event, which was won by GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda with 10 points. Duda won outright, while ...
GMs Kirill Shevchenko and Frederik Svane are your winners for the October 8 editions of Titled Tuesday. While Shevchenko led wire-to-wire and won outright with 10 points, victory did not come easily for Svane, who came out of a four-way, 9.5-point...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Magnus Carlsen won the first Titled Tuesdays of October on the first of the month. Bortnyk scored 10/11 early to win outright, while Carlsen scored 9.5/11 late and won on tiebreaks over GM Grigoriy Oparin, whom he also ...
After GM Hans Niemann edged out GM Vladimir Kramnik on tiebreaks in the early Titled Tuesday of September 24, GM Magnus Carlsen won outright in the late event, his only blemish being a ninth-round loss to GM Hikaru Nakamura, who finished second. ...
GM Alireza Firouzja and GM Christopher Yoo won the Titled Tuesday events of September 17, both needing tiebreaks even though Firouzja scored 10 points while Yoo scored 9.5 points. GM Jeffery Xiong and GM Jose Martinez, respectively, were the runne...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the early edition of Titled Tuesday on September 10 with a 9/9 start and 10/11 overall score after defeating both GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, who finished second and third in the strongest Titled Tuesday podiu...
The first Titled Tuesdays of September went to two regulars, GMs Alexey Sarana and Bogdan-Daniel Deac, who both scored 10 points. It was Sarana's fourth win of the year and Deac's second. Sarana needed tiebreaks over GM Ian Nepomniachtch...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his fourth Titled Tuesday in the last five weeks in the early tournament on August 27, but his 9.5 points were overshadowed by GM Jose Martinez scoring a perfect 11/11 in the late tournament, joining Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nak...
