Hikaru Nakamura (中村光, Nakamura Hikaru?) (born December 9, 1987) is a Japanese-born American chess grandmaster. He is ranked thirteenth in the world by FIDE as of November 2012, and is the current United States Chess Champion.
Nakamura's first supertournament victory came at Wijk aan Zee 2011, finishing clear first ahead of the four top-rated players in the world in a performance described by former World Champion Garry Kasparov as better than any tournament result of Bobby Fischer's, and the best by an American in more than 100 years.
Nakamura is the top United States Chess Federation (USCF) rated player at 2876, as published on June 1, 2012. In October 2012, he reached a FIDE rating of 2786; 5th in the world at the time and the highest of his career.
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