![]() ![]() In November 2011, Nepomniachtchi tied for 3rd–5th with Vasily Ivanchuk and Sergey Karjakin in the category 22 Tal Memorial in Moscow. Later the same year, in Moscow, he won the Russian Chess Championship, after defeating Sergey Karjakin in a playoff. In 2010, in Rijeka, Nepomniachtchi won the European Individual Championship with a score of 9/11. He won the gold medal in chess at the 2009 Maccabiah Games. In the same year, he also won the Ordix Open, a rapid chess tournament in Mainz. In this tournament, he shared second place after an undefeated run. ![]() īy winning the Aeroflot Open in Moscow in February 2008, he qualified for the 2008 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting. Nepomniachtchi won the latter event, edging out Rauf Mamedov, Parimarjan Negi and Zaven Andriasian on tiebreak score. 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. Later that same year, Nepomniachtchi gained his second GM norm at the European Individual Chess Championship in Dresden. In 2007, he finished second in the C group of the Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee earning his first grandmaster (GM) norm. In 2002, Nepomniachtchi also won the World Youth Chess Championship in the U12 category, edging out Magnus Carlsen on tiebreak score. In 2000, he won the under-10 category, and in 20, he came first in the U12 championship. Nepomniachtchi won the European Youth Chess Championship three times. Under the guidance of his coach, he took part in the World and European Championships. At the age of five, Ian moved to Bryansk with his first coach, Valentin Evdokimenko, and trained until Ian was thirteen. Ian's first coaches were his uncle Igor Nepomniashchy, Valentin Evdokimenko, international master Valery Zilberstein and grandmaster Sergei Yanovsky. His grandfather Boris Iosifovich Nepomniashchy (1929–1998) was a famous teacher and lyricist in Bryansk. Nepomniachtchi learned to play chess at the age of four. In July 2022, he won the 2022 FIDE Candidates tournament with a round to spare, thereby winning two Candidates tournaments in a row and again qualifying him to play in the World Chess Championship 2023 additionally, he garnered the highest score in any Candidates tournament since the modern format was introduced in 2013. He won the 2021 FIDE Candidates tournament with a round to spare, which qualified him as the challenger in the World Chess Championship 2021 for the world championship title but lost his challenge to defending champion Magnus Carlsen. In December 2019, he qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2020–2021 by finishing second in the FIDE Grand Prix 2019. 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. In October 2016, Nepomniachtchi was ranked fourth in the world in both rapid chess and blitz chess. ![]() Nepomniachtchi won the 2015 European Team Chess Championship in Reykjavík with the Russian team. ![]() He won the World Team Chess Championship as a member of the Russian team in Antalya (2013) and Astana (2019). He also won the 2016 Tal Memorial and both the 20 Aeroflot Open events. Nepomniachtchi won the 20 Russian Superfinal and the 2010 European Individual titles. Yan Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchiy, IPA: ( listen) born 14 July 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Nepomniachtchi at the World Chess Championship 2021 ![]()
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