The Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Final: Nakamura Crushes So 23-8

Since there wasn't any drama to spoil, there's little reason to hide the results. Hikaru Nakamura won his fourth consecutive Chess.com Speed Chess Championship, and while his match with Ding Liren was incredibly close and dramatic, going to Armageddon, this was simply a rout. Nakamura only led by two points after the five-minute portion, but the rest was a massacre.

If you're wondering about your next "fix", good news: there's already a top-level rapid and blitz event underway. The Vugar Gashimov Memorial started over the weekend and includes Viswanathan Anand, Fabiano Caruana, Sergey Karjakin, and Richard Rapport as its leading lights. And that is in turn a mere prelude to the Rapid & Blitz World Championships, which take place in Warsaw starting the day after Christmas. (Or more precisely, on the second day of Christmas.)