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.
GM Magnus Carlsen won the early Titled Tuesday event on August 1 and then finished second late. It was GM Alexander Grischuk who won the late event. Both of them are playing in the second round of the 2023 FIDE World Cup on Wednesday, but decided ...
On July 25, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave became the third player to win both ends of a Titled Tuesday, after GM Hikaru Nakamura (who has done it five times) and GM Wesley So. Nakamura himself prevented Vachier-Lagrave from joining him and GM Magnus C...
For the second time ever, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday on the same day. It previously occurred on October 11, 2022. Just like last time, Nakamura won the early tournament and Carlsen the late event. Nakamura also finis...
GM Magnus Carlsen became only the second player, and first in nearly two years, to score a perfect 11/11 in Titled Tuesday, achieving the feat in the late tournament on July 4, 2023. He won the event by two full points—a half-point better th...
To win Titled Tuesday, 9.5 points continue to be enough as GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Oleksandr Bortnyk won the June 27 renditions of the event, each on that score. Both needed the tiebreak score advantage over one other player in order to secure fi...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France and GM Dmitrij Kollars of Germany were the winners of Titled Tuesday on June 20. GM Gata Kamsky, who won one of last week's events, nearly pulled it off again in the early tournament, finishing second behind Vac...
The June 13 edition of Titled Tuesday was won by GMs Gata Kamsky in the early event and Jan-Krzysztof Duda late. The 49-year-old Kamsky, who challenged for the FIDE World Championship in 1996, won outright with 9.5 points ahead of a nine-way tie f...
After the young GM Pranesh M won the early Titled Tuesday on June 6, a more familiar face won the late tournament despite playing in Norway Chess earlier in the day: GM Hikaru Nakamura. It was actually Nakamura's first win in the event since April...
GM Nihal Sarin won the early Titled Tuesday event on May 30 for his second tournament victory in a row after winning last week's late tournament as well. This week he scored 10.5 out of 11 points, one of the few players to achieve that score ...
Titled Tuesday on May 23 went to two generations of blitz stars, the long-established GM Alexander Grischuk and the 20-years-younger GM Nihal Sarin. Grischuk essentially locked up the early tournament with a round to go, while Nihal barely outlast...
GMs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Oleksandr Bortnyk found the keys to victory in Titled Tuesday on May 16. Mamedyarov won on tiebreaks over GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Nitzan Steinberg, while Bortnyk won outright by half a point over GM Matthias Bluebaum....
GM Magnus Carlsen rejoined the Titled Tuesday winners column on May 9, his first time since November of last year. He scored 10 points to clear the rest of the early tournament field by a full point. GM Alexey Sarana won the late tournament, ...
GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Aram Hakobyan took home the victories in Titled Tuesday on May 2, both of them scoring 9.5 points out of the possible 11. Duda won on tiebreaks over higher-rated GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana in the first ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the winner's column in the early Titled Tuesday on April 25, and GM Nihal Sarin followed with his first win of the year in the late tournament. Both scored 9.5 points out of a possible 11 and won on the tiebreak scor...
Titled Tuesday on April 18 featured several storylines beyond GM Tuan Minh Le winning the early event and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave winning the late event. GM Igor Kovalenko, who has been on the front lines in Ukraine's attempt to fight off Russia...
GM Alexey Sarana and GM Fabiano Caruana won Titled Tuesday on April 11. Caruana stole the show, scoring 10.5 points out of 11 and winning the late event by a nearly unprecedented 1.5 points. Just a draw with Chess.com's own GM Rafael Leitao stood ...
GM Dmitry Andreikin and GM Parham Maghsoodloo emerged victorious at Titled Tuesday on April 4. Both scored 9.5 points out of a possible 11, but Andrekin needed a tiebreak advantage over two rivals while Maghsoodloo won outright. This was A...
GMs Daniil Dubov and David Paravyan each won a Titled Tuesday tournament on March 28, both winning outright. They became the first players to score 10 points since February 14. Each second-place finish also belonged to the only two players to scor...
GM Daniil Dubov and GM Vladimir Kramnik won Titled Tuesday on March 21. Kramnik, 47, was the world chess champion from 2000 to 2007. He retired from over-the-board tournament chess in 2019 but has been active in Chess.com rapid and blitz events in...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda were the winners of Titled Tuesday on March 14, both of them scoring 9.5 points. Nakamura edged out GM Daniil Dubov on tiebreaks early while Duda won outright late. GM Arjun Erigaisi scored two top-five...
The March 7, 2023, editions of Titled Tuesday were won by GM Vladimir Fedoseev early and GM Alireza Firouzja late, both scoring 9.5 points. Falling just shy were GMs Nihal Sarin and Dmitry Andreikin, who also scored 9.5 points but lost due to tieb...
The official FIDE ratings are in for March 2023, and at first glance they seem consistent with the February list, but look more closely and you see a notable name missing: GM Sergey Karajkin, who has now been inactive for a full 12 months and...
In the nearly 180 Titled Tuesdays since the event moved to 11 rounds on October 20, 2020, GM Hikaru Nakamura has now won 50, a ridiculous percentage of nearly 30% despite hundreds of participants gunning for first place in every tournament. His vi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his third consecutive Titled Tuesday in the early tournament on February 21. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave followed up with a win in the late tournament. Both won with 9.5 points out of 11. GM Fabiano Caruana was another top p...
