Hikaru Nakamura Immortal Chess Game! - Mega-exciting sacrifices abound! - Sinquefield Cup 2015

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Instructive game tags: Wesley So vs Nakamura, Sinquefield cup, top US player question, Kings Indian defence played by Nakamura, kingside pawn storm, old classical line with Ne1, Rd7 attack and defensive move, Kh1 prophylaxis move, h5 instead of bf8, black plahying for g4 break, Knight goes back to a3 after being kicked with a6, rook inflitration to c6 square, Qf8 to be able to kick rook on c6 without losing d6 pawn, white avoids exchange sacrifice idea when moving rook from c6, f3 not to win the exchange, knight sac, f file very dangerous for white after knight sac, rxf3 to try and crash through to f1, h3 check worked like clockwork after Kg2, be3 crushing as well threatening a mate in two, king could not return to the corner because of g2 check, queen h6 sets up mating threats, king sucked up board, king chase, Nhf3 threatened a mate in one, wesley so sporting to allow mating at end

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Who is Nakamura ?

Hikaru Nakamura (ヒカル・ナカムラ (in katakana), 中村 光 (in kanji) Nakamura Hikaru, born December 9, 1987) is a Japanese-born American chess grandmaster.

He is a five-time United States Chess Champion,[1] who won the 2011 edition of Tata Steel Group A and represented the United States at five Chess Olympiads, winning a team gold medal and two team bronze medals. He has also written a book about bullet chess called Bullet Chess: One Minute to Mate.[2]

Chess career
In April 2004 Nakamura achieved a fourth-place finish in the "B" group at the Corus tournament at Wijk aan Zee.[8]

Nakamura qualified for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, played in Tripoli, Libya, and reached the fourth round, defeating grandmasters Sergey Volkov, Aleksej Aleksandrov, and Alexander Lastin before falling to England's Michael Adams, the tournament's third-seeded participant and eventual runner-up.

On June 20, 2005, Nakamura was selected as the 19th Frank Samford Chess Fellow, receiving a grant of $32,000 to further his chess education and competition.[9]

Nakamura won the 2005 U.S. Chess Championship (held in November and December 2004), scoring seven points over nine rounds to tie grandmaster Alex Stripunsky for first place. Nakamura defeated Stripunsky in two straight rapid chess playoff games to claim the title and become the youngest national champion since Fischer. Nakamura finished the tournament without a loss and, in the seventh round, defeated grandmaster Gregory Kaidanov, then the nation's top-ranked player.

Following that victory, Nakamura played a challenge match dubbed the "Duelo de Jóvenes Prodigios" in Mexico against Ukrainian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin and defeated his fellow prodigy, 4½–1½.[10]

In November and December 2005 Nakamura entered the FIDE World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, seeded 28th (of 128 players) but failed to advance beyond the first round. He lost each of his two games to Indian grandmaster Surya Ganguly.[11]

In 2006, Nakamura helped the U.S. team win the bronze medal in the International Chess Olympiad at Turin, playing third board behind Gata Kamsky and 2006 U.S. Champion Alexander Onischuk. In the same year he won the 16th North American Open in Las Vegas.[12]

In January 2007 Nakamura shared second place at the GibTelecom Masters in Gibraltar.[13] He placed joint first in the tournament the following year, finishing with five straight wins to tie with Chinese GM Bu Xiangzhi, whom he then proceeded to beat in the rapidplay play off.[14]

In October 2007 Nakamura won the Magistral D'Escacs in Barcelona[15] and the Corsican circuit rapid chess tournament.[16]

Nakamura won the 2008 Finet Chess960 Open (Mainz).[17] In November 2008, he won the Cap d'Agde Rapid Tournament in Cap d'Agde, defeating Anatoly Karpov in the semifinals and Vassily Ivanchuk in the finals.[18] In February 2009 he came joint third at the 7th Gibtelecom Masters in Gibraltar, again finishing strongly with 4½/5 to end the event on 7½/10.[19]

2009: Second U.S. Championship and other tournament successes
Nakamura won the 2009 U.S. Chess Championship (St Louis, Missouri, May 2009), scoring 7/9 to take clear first ahead of 17-year-old GM-elect Robert Hess, who shared second with 6½.[20]
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