Nakamura Hikaru (09.12.1987)

U.S. Grandmaster (2003) born in Japan. FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Champion 2019. U.S. Champion in 2005, 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2019. U.S. Junior Champion in 2001.

Nakamura learned chess since he was seven years old. Silver medalist in World U12 in 2001. Bronze medalist in the American Continental Championship in 2003. The same year Nakamura became the youngest American grandmaster ever at age 15 and 79 days breaking by three months the record of Bobby Fischer for the youngest American to have claimed the GM title, surpassed only by Fabiano Caruana (world highest world-rated U16 who moved later under the Italian flag) and Ray Robson.

Best results: won or shared first at the Western Open and National Open 2003, Decameron Open 2004, Western States Open and Fifth Millennium  Chess Festival 2004, Foxwood Open 2005, National Chess Congress (USA) 2006, North American Open 2006, National Open 2007, Casino of Barcelona 2007, Corsica Master 2007, Miami Open 2007, North American Open 2007, 2008 Finite Chess960 Open (GER) 2007, Chicago Open 2008, Corsica Masters 2008, Cap d’Agde Master 2008, Donostia-San Sebastian 2009 (with Ruslan Ponomariov), BNbank blitz tournament (beating Magnus Carlsen in final), Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee 2011, US Open 2011, Hoogoven GM 2012, Gibraltar Open 2015, Zurich Chess Challenge 2015, Khanty-Mansiysk FIDE GP 2015, Gibraltar Open 2016, Gibraltar Open 2017, Paris Grand Chess Tour Rapid and Blitz tournament 2018, London Classic 2018 and GCT 2018.

A member of the national team which won the gold at the 2016 Olympiad and the silver at the 2010 World Team Championship where he collected an individual gold for the best performance at first board.

Peak rating: 2816 in 2015, he was the second-best world ranked player. in 2019, he was the best world ranked player in blitz with 2900.