Hikaru Nakamura is an American chess grandmaster born December 9, 1987, in Hirakata, Japan, who moved to the United States as a child and has won the United States Chess Championship five times. He is widely regarded as one of the strongest speed chess players in the world, holding multiple world blitz and rapid championship titles, and became one of the most prominent chess streamers and content creators of the online chess boom of the 2020s, drawing large audiences well beyond the traditional competitive chess world.
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Career HighlightFive-time U.S. Chess Champion and 2022 World Fischer Random Chess Champion 1 Classification
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1. Wikipedia, Hikaru Nakamura
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born December 9, 1987
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is an American chess grandmaster
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five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the 2022 World Fischer Random Chess Champion
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2 chess player worldwide by FIDE.
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