Ian Nepomniachtchi

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Aleksandrovich and the family name is Nepomniachtchi.
Ian Nepomniachtchi

Nepomniachtchi in 2014
Full name Ян Алекса́ндрович Непо́мнящий
Country Russia
Born (1990-07-14) 14 July 1990
Bryansk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2767 (November 2016)
(No. 16 in the October 2016 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating 2767 (November 2016)

Ian Aleksandrovich Nepomniachtchi (Russian: Ян Алекса́ндрович Непо́мнящий; born 14 July 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

He was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the 2013 World Team Chess Championship in Antalya[1] and at the 2015 European Team Chess Championship in Reykjavík.

Nepomniachtchi won the 2010 Russian Superfinal and European Individual titles. He also won the 2016 Tal Memorial and 2008 and 2015 Aeroflot Open.

In October 2016, Nepomniachtchi was ranked fourth in the world in both rapid chess and blitz chess. He has won two silver medals in the World Rapid Championship and a silver medal at the World Blitz Championship as well as winning the 2008 Ordix Open.

Career

Early career

Nepomniachtchi won the European Youth Chess Championship three times. In 2000, he won the under-10 category, and in 2001 and 2002, he came first in the U12 championship.[2] In 2002, Nepomniachtchi also won the World Youth Chess Championship in the U12 category eadging out on tiebreak score Magnus Carlsen.[3]

2007

In 2007, he finished second in the C group of the Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee[4] earning his first grandmaster (GM) norm. Later that same year, Nepomniachtchi gained his second GM norm at the European Individual Chess Championship in Dresden. The third and final norm required for the GM title was won at the 5th Vanya Somov Memorial – World's Youth Stars tournament in Kirishi.[5] Nepomniachtchi won the latter event edging out Rauf Mamedov, Parimarjan Negi and Zaven Andriasian on tiebreak score.[6]

2008

By winning the Aeroflot Open in Moscow in February 2008, he qualified for the 2008 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting. In this tournament, he shared second place after an undefeated run. In the same year, he also won the Ordix Open, a rapid chess tournament in Mainz.[7][8]

2010

In 2010, in Rijeka, Nepomniachtchi won the European Individual Championship with a score of 9/11.[9] Later the same year, in Moscow, he won the Russian Chess Championship, after defeating Sergey Karjakin in a playoff.[10]

2011

In November 2011, Nepomniachtchi tied for 3rd–5th with Vasily Ivanchuk and Sergey Karjakin in the category 22 Tal Memorial in Moscow.[11]

2013

In May 2013, Nepomniachtchi tied for 1st–8th with Alexander Moiseenko, Evgeny Romanov, Alexander G Beliavsky, Constantin Lupulescu, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Sergei Movsesian, Hrant Melkumyan, Alexey Dreev and Evgeny Alekseev in the European Individual Championship.[12] The following month, Nepomniachtchi finished second to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the World Rapid Chess Championship, held in Khanty-Mansiysk.[13] In October 2013, he tied for first with Peter Svidler in the Russian Championship Superfinal, finishing second on tiebreak.[14]

Over the course of 2013, Nepomniachtchi's blitz rating surged from 2689 in January, to 2830 in December.

2014

Nepomniachtchi won the silver medal at the World Blitz Chess Championship of 2014 held in Dubai.[15] In August, at the 5th International Chess Festival “Yaroslav the Wise” in Yaroslavl, he won the Tournament of Champions, a rapid chess event held with the double round-robin format featuring the six European champions of 2009-2014.[16][17] At the SportAccord World Mind Games, held in December in Beijing, he won the gold medal in the men's Basque chess tournament.[18]

2015

In April 2015, he won the Aeroflot Open for the second time in his career, edging out Daniil Dubov on tiebreak, having played more games with the black pieces, and earned a spot in the 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting. Right after the end of the tournament he also won the Aeroflot blitz tournament.[19] Later that year, in September, he won the Moscow Blitz Championship[20] and one month later, he took the silver medal at the World Rapid Chess Championship in Berlin.[21]

2016

Nepomniachtchi won the 7th Hainan Danzhou tournament in July[22][23] and the Tal Memorial in October.[24]

At the 42nd Chess Olympiad, he won the team bronze medal and an individual silver playing board 4 for Russia.

Personal life

Nepomniachtchi is Jewish.[25]

He graduated from the Russian State Social University.[26]

References

  1. ↑ "World Team 09 Russia takes gold; China silver". ChessBase. 2013-12-06. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "The Week in Chess 420". The Week in Chess. Mark Crowther. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  3. ↑ da Nóbrega, Adaucto Wanderley. "Heraklio 2002 - 17° World Championship u12 (boys)". BrasilBase. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  4. ↑ Standings of grandmaster group C 2007 Tata Steel Chess
  5. ↑ GM title application FIDE
  6. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2007-05-28). "TWIC 655: Somov Memorial Kirishi". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  7. ↑ Doggers, Peter (2008-08-04). "Nepomniachtchi wins Ordix Open". ChessVibes. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "Mainz 2008: Ian Nepomniachtchi wins Ordix Open". ChessBase. 2008-08-05. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "Ian Nepomniachtchi is European Chess Champion". Chessdom. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
  10. ↑ "First Russian title for Nepomniachtchi". ChessVibes.com. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  11. ↑ "Carlsen catches Aronian in last round, wins Tal Memorial on tiebreak". ChessVibes. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  12. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2013-05-16). "14th European Individual Championships 2013". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
  13. ↑ "Shakhriyar Mamedyarov is 2013 World Rapid Chess Champion". Chessdom. 2013-06-08. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  14. ↑ "Russian Super Final: Svidler, Gunina win". ChessBase. 2013-10-14. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  15. ↑ FIDE World Blitz Championship 2014 Chess-Results
  16. ↑ "Ian Nepomniachtchi convincing in Yaroslavl". Chessdom. 2014-08-28.
  17. ↑ "Tournament of Champions in Yaroslavl". Chessdom. 2014-08-25.
  18. ↑ McGourty, Colin (2014-12-17). "Hou Yifan and Nepomniachtchi Basque in glory". Chess24.
  19. ↑ "Ian Nepomniachtchi dominates the Aeroflot Open". Chessdom. 2015-04-06. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  20. ↑ "Ian Nepomniachtchi and Valentina Gunina win the Moscow Blitz Chess Championships". FIDE. 2015-09-11. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  21. ↑ "Magnus Carlsen is 2015 World Rapid Champion!". Chessdom. 2015-10-12. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  22. ↑ "7th Hainan Danzhou GM 2016". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  23. ↑ Shankland, Samuel (2016-07-19). "Nepomniachtchi Wins Super Tournament in China". World Chess. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  24. ↑ Silver, Albert (2016-10-07). "Ian Nepomniachtchi wins Tal Memorial". ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  25. ↑ Soffer, Ram (2013-07-24). "2013 Maccabiah Games - The Jewish Olympics". ChessBase. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  26. ↑ "Vladimir Palikhata opened 9th International RSSU Cup Moscow Open 2013". Moscow Open 2013. 2013-02-02. Retrieved 19 November 2015.

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Preceded by
Alexander Grischuk		 Russian Chess Champion
2010 		Succeeded by
Peter Svidler
Preceded by
Evgeny Tomashevsky		 European Chess Champion
2010 		Succeeded by
Vladimir Potkin
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