The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Japan
This page contains a list of the greatest Japanese Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 374 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Japan. This makes Japan the birth place of the 51st most number of Chess Players behind Mexico and Peru.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Japanese Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Japanese Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Hikaru Nakamura (1987 - )
With an HPI of 41.91, Hikaru Nakamura is the most famous Japanese Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 44 different languages on wikipedia.
Christopher Hikaru Nakamura (born December 9, 1987) is an American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he earned his grandmaster title at the age of 15, the youngest American at the time to do so. With a peak rating of 2816, Nakamura is the tenth-highest-rated player in history. Nakamura has represented the United States at five Chess Olympiads, securing a team gold medal and two team bronze medals. In May 2014, when FIDE began publishing official rapid and blitz chess ratings, Nakamura ranked No. 1 in the world on both lists; he has remained at or near the No. 1 rank in rapid and blitz ever since.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as chess players born between 1987 and 1987. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living chess players include Hikaru Nakamura.
