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Olexandr Bortnyk (born 18 October 1996) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2015, at the age of 19. A former chess prodigy , Bortnyk is considered one of the strongest players according to his rating on the chess.com website in the "Blitz" and "Bullet" category.
2009 World Chess960 champion Hikaru Nakamura at Mainz. The World Chess960 Championship is a match or tournament held to determine a world champion in Chess960 (also known as Fischer random chess), a popular chess variant in which the positions of pieces on the players' home ranks are randomized with certain constraints.
In December 2020, he made it to the finals round of the Chess.com Bullet Open Championship. [1]In September 2022, he finished second in the late Titled Tuesday tournament.
The FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022 (WFRCC) was the second official world championship in Fischer Random Chess (also known as Chess960). [1] [2] The competition followed a similar format to the first championship in 2019, with qualifying stages open to all interested participants taking place online on chess.com and Lichess, and four qualified players joined four invited ...
The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2024 was a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2024 by Chess.com.The tour started on 26 January 2024 and ended on 21 December 2024. It involved four online chess tournaments and an over-the-board final round, featuring some of the world's top players who played for a prize money pool of US$1,700,000.
Nakamura vs Carlsen from the Tata Steel 2013. Nakamura began 2013 with a 7/13 (+3−2=8) result at the Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee, finishing sixth. [71] He scored a win against then world number five Fabiano Caruana with the black pieces in an Old Indian Defense.
A judge in Brazil has ordered Adele’s song Million Years Ago to be removed globally from streaming services due to a plagiarism claim by Brazilian composer, Toninho Geraes. Geraes alleges that ...
In the main event, Bobby Roode defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to win the NXT Championship. In other prominent matches, The Authors of Pain ( Akam and Rezar ) defeated DIY ( Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa ) to win the NXT Tag Team Championship , and Asuka defeated Billie Kay , Peyton Royce , and Nikki Cross in a fatal four-way match to retain the ...