Increments – Can we break Nakamura’s record?
“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”
― General George S. Patton III
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Hikaru Nakamura’s longest online chess game with time increments is a 810-move blitz game played against International Master Justin Wang during the late Titled Tuesday tournament on Chess.com on May 13, 2025.
Key Details of the Game
• Time Control: Blitz (3+1 format, meaning 3 minutes starting time with a 1-second increment per move).
• Total Moves: 810 moves.
• Opponent: American IM Justin Wang.
• How it happened: Nakamura won the critical material/positional battle early on (trapping Wang’s queen around move 50), a point where normal players would resign. However, Wang played on, and Nakamura chose to drag out the endgame by intentionally pacing pawn pushes and avoiding 50-move-rule draws or repetitions “for the memes”.
• Duration: Despite lasting 810 moves, the actual real-time duration of the game was roughly 18 to 19 minutes because both players accumulated and pre-moved time on their clocks. You can review the match via the Chess.com Live Game Viewer.
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