Hikaru Nakamura
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Hikaru Nakamura is perhaps the finest chess player in the world at speed chess. Many consider him to be the finest American chess player since Bobby Fischer.
He is a 5-time United States chess champion, and led the U.S. team to win the gold medal at the 2016 Chess Olympiad. He became a grandmaster at a record-breaking age for an American of only 15 years old.
In 2020, he ranks in the top 20 chess players worldwide.
As to his popularity on Twitch:
| “ | In March, when he first started streaming in earnest, an average of 2,000 people tuned in live to watch Nakamura. As quarantine intensified, that number jumped to 18,000. Now his fanbase has grown to 366,000 followersblitz chess player and host of a popular streaming of chess on Twitch.[1] | ” |