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.
Big names won the Titled Tuesday events of March 5: GM Alireza Firouzja and GM Hikaru Nakamura, both of whom will be playing in the Candidates Tournament in four weeks. Firouzja won in the last round to reach a five-way tie on 9.5 points wher...
For the first time ever, both Titled Tuesday winners came one draw away from a perfect score, as both GM Minh Le in the early tournament and GM Hikaru Nakamura in the late tournament "settled" for scores of 10.5/11 and full-point outright victorie...
GM Anish Giri earned his first win in Titled Tuesday on February 20, taking the early edition with a score of 10/11. In the late event, GM Velimir Ivic also scored 10/11, making for a rare day with no tiebreaks for first place. Early Tournamen...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda and GM Kirill Alekseenko, two former world championship candidates, emerged from tied standings to win Titled Tuesday on February 13. Duda needed to overcome four other players in tiebreaks, while Alekseenko only had to outsc...
GM Hikaru Nakamura continued his hot start to the year in Titled Tuesday on February 6, finishing third in the early tournament and winning the late tournament, his third win of 2024. The early event was won by Polish GM Kacper Piorun. Both he and...
In a long-awaited moment, GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hans Niemann have played another game of chess against each other, their first since September 2022. It was an 87-move draw in the early Titled Tuesday event of January 30, won by Carlsen with a 1...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda took home Titled Tuesday on January 23 with 9.5 points. After Nakamura held tiebreaks over GM Wesley So and GM Vladimir Fedoseev, Duda became the first outright winner of 2024 (with seven people tied be...
As Titled Tuesday gets more crowded, with 700+ players in the early tournament and 500+ in the late tournament both of the last two weeks, ties atop the standings seem to be getting more commonplace. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave emerged from a five-w...
The second set of Titled Tuesday tournaments of 2024 was won by GMs Eduardo Iturrizaga and Daniil Dubov on January 9. A total of 733 participants in the first tournament was easily the most since Titled Tuesday was split into two tournaments, smas...
Victory in the first Titled Tuesday tournaments of 2024, held January 2, went to two familiar faces. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the early event with 9.5 points and slightly better tiebreakers than GM Magnus Carlsen. Then, GM Hikaru Nakamura sco...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Matthias Bluebaum were the winners of Titled Tuesday on December 26, the last one of the year 2023. For Nakamura, it wrapped up yet another fabulously successful year of Titled Tuesdays. For Bluebaum, it was his first win...
It's a minor surprise that it doesn't happen more often, but GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura were the winners of Titled Tuesday on December 19. Carlsen scored 10/11 in the early event, beating Nakamura by half a point, and in th...
The Titled Tuesday of December 12 was somewhat overshadowed by the Champions Chess Tour (CCT) Finals, but GM Denis Lazavik brought the two events together by winning the late Titled Tuesday following his elimination from the CCT. The earlier Title...
Recent Titled Tuesdays have been a time for the long-established veterans of the chess world to remind everyone they're not done yet. December 5 was no exception, with GM Levon Aronian and GM Magnus Carlsen both winning a tournament outright,...
GM Alexander Grischuk and GM Hikaru Nakamura were the winners of the last two Titled Tuesday tournaments of November. Grischuk won the early tournament by a full point on 10/11 after defeating Nakamura in the 10th round, while Nakamura scored 9.5/...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the early Titled Tuesday tournament on November 21 with a 10.5/11 score and then led the late event with one round to go, but GM Liem Le would end up catching him and winning on tiebreaks. It was Le's third Titled Tuesday win...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his first Titled Tuesday in over a month in the first tournament of November 14, while GM Arjun Erigaisi won his first ever in the late event. Both scored 9.5 points out of 11. Nakamura, coming off a peak record-breaking 333...
In the November 7 edition of Titled Tuesday, GM Magnus Carlsen finally joined the list of players to win both tournaments on a single day, becoming the sixth player to pull off the feat. After a come-from-behind early win, where Carlsen was only t...
GM Liem Le, head coach of the legendary Webster University chess program, won the early Titled Tuesday on October 31, his second in a row after winning late last week. This week's late event went to GM Pranav V, who also finished fifth in the earl...
GM Daniil Dubov defeated GM Magnus Carlsen, whom he has assisted in multiple world championships, in the final round of the early Titled Tuesday on October 24 and thus overtook and won the event outright with 10 points. Webster University head coa...
After winning Titled Tuesday five times in 2022, GM Jose Martinez entered the October 17, 2023 edition with more than a dozen top-five finishes in 2023 but no victories on the year. He changed that by sweeping this week's event. Martinez, who rout...
The victors of Titled Tuesday on October 10 were a long-time contender and a first-time winner: GM Dmitry Andreikin took home his 16th victory in the early tournament while GM Eduardo Iturrizaga, who made waves earlier this year by reaching Divisi...
You can't keep GM Hikaru Namakura down for long. He won the early Titled Tuesday on October 3, his first since a perfect score on August 22 and his 57th overall since October 2020. Nakamura then nearly won the late event as well, but it ended up g...
It seems like no one can beat GM Magnus Carlsen these days. In just the last five weeks, he's won the World Cup, the Julius Baer Generations Cup, and the Speed Chess Championship. After advancing in the AI Cup earlier in the day on September 26, h...
