Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For someone ranked No. 2 in the world, playing competitive games of chess sits curiously low on grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura’s list ...

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 ...

Hikaru Nakamura has said that he is the second-best chess player in the world behind Magnus Carlsen, defending his ranking ...

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American chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura began streaming on Twitch in 2018 under the username "GMHikaru." Since then, he has developed into one of the website's most prominent chess-based content ...

Seeds of doubt have grown into a disturbance among some in the game’s top ranks. By Dylan Loeb McClain An American grandmaster sued Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top player, and two other parties after ...

Ask most Americans to name one great chess player, and they will answer "Bobby Fischer." That's in part because Fischer was, for a time, No. 1 in the world and in part because he was spectacularly ...