What is Hikaru Nakamura?
{{Japanese name|Nakamura}} {{Infobox chess player |playername = Hikaru Nakamura |image = File:Nakamura Hikaru (29290269410) (cropped).jpg |caption= |birthname = Hikaru Nakamura |country = {{USA}} |datebirth = {{Birth date and age|1987|12|9}} |placebirth = [[Hirakata]], Japan |death_date = |death_place = |title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] |worldchampion = |womensworldchampion = |rating = 2802 <br /><small>(#3 in the Jan 2025 [[FIDE]] ranking list)</small> |peakrating = 2816 (October 2015) }} {{nihongo|'''Christopher Hikaru Nakamura'''|中村光|Nakamura Hikaru}} (born December 9, 1987) is a professional chess player and net streamer and is the leading [[U.S.]] [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]] (GM).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Marshall|first=Cass|date=2021-04-09|title=The chess grandmaster drama that led to a fistfight, explained|url=https://www.polygon.com/22373729/chess-community-nakamura-hansen-fight-controversy|access-date=2021-04-29|website=Polygon|language=en}}</ref> He was born on 9 December 1987 in [[Japan]] (Hirakata, [[Osaka Prefecture]]). His parents moved to the United States of America when he was two. He has won the U.S. chess championship five times, and represented the United States of America at five [[Chess Olympiad]]s. In 2011, Nakamura won the Tata Steel Grandmaster A tournament in [[Wijk aan Zee]]. His opponents included world #1 and defending champion [[Magnus Carlsen]], former world champion [[Viswanathan Anand]], world #2 [[Levon Aronian]], and former world champion [[Vladimir Kramnik]]. == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Nakamura, Hikaru}} [[Category:Child prodigies]] [[Category:American chess players]] [[Category:1987 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Chess grandmasters]] {{US-bio-stub}}