What made his triumph in the ‘City of Light’ even more special was the fact that he defeated Hikaru Nakamura in a dream showdown between two of the world’s top-ranked players, winning by a 1.5-0.5 ...

If you’re new to the wacky world of Keiichi Arawi, then there’s no better place to start than Nichijou – My Ordinary Life. Released in 2011, the series features a similarly mundane plot ...

Magnus Carlsen on Sunday secured a clinical victory over Hikaru Nakamura in the first leg of the finals at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam in Paris. Opening with the unorthodox 1.c4, Carlsen quickly ...

Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura are set to face off in the Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam final after winning their respective semifinal matches. Carlsen defeated Fabiano Caruana, while ...

The sting of loss rarely cuts deeper than this. When Javokhir Sindarov — the 19-year-old Uzbek prodigy who replaced Viswanathan Anand as a late entrant — drew Hikaru Nakamura as his quarter-final ...

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Arjun Erigaisi put up a determined fight but ultimately fell short against the experienced Hikaru Nakamura in a hard-fought second leg duel that lasted 62 moves on the second day of the quarterfinals ...

The Paris leg of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour featured one of the wildest games of the tournament so far, as American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura and Indian GM Arjun Erigaisi delivered a ...