Hikaru Nakamura

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 (GM).^[1] 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 Olympiads.

In this Japanese name, the family name is Nakamura.

Hikaru Nakamura
Full name	Hikaru Nakamura
Country	United States
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2802 (#3 in the Jan 2025 FIDE ranking list)
Peak rating	2816 (October 2015)

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.