Magnus Carlsen
Since April 2020, Nakamura participated in the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour with a prize pool of $1 million. He won the group stage of Magnus Carlsen Invitational and finished second behind Magnus Carlsen. He beat Carlsen in the semi-finals of Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge but finished second, losing to eventual champion Daniil Dubov in the final. Nakamura qualified for the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals against Carlsen where he took his opponent to seven matches before drawing an armageddon tie breaker game as white, thus losing the match. The world champion praised Nakamura after the match, saying "he played a great match, he made it extremely difficult for me".