Ian Nepomniachtchi

Ian Nepomniachtchi
Full name	Ian Nepomniachtchi
Country	Russia
Born	July 14, 1990 (1990-07-14) (age 21) Bryansk, Russian SFSR
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2718 (No. 24 in the September 2011 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating	2733 (January 2011)

Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russian: Ян Непомнящий) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the chess champion of Russia in 2010. As of September 2010^[update], he was listed by FIDE as having an Elo rating of 2706. He won the European Youth Chess Championship three times, in 2000 in the U10 class and in 2001 and 2002 in the U12 class. In 2002 he also won the World Youth Chess Championship in the U12 class. By winning the Aeroflot Open in Moscow in February 2008, he qualified for the 2008 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting. In 2010, in Rijeka, he won the European Individual Chess Championship with 9/11.^[1] In the same year, in Moscow, he won the Russian Chess Championship; he defeated Sergey Karjakin in a playoff.^[2]

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

References

1. ^ "Ian Nepomniachtchi is European Chess Champion". Chessdom. http://players.chessdom.com/ian-nepomniachtchi/european-chess-champion-2010. Retrieved 18 March 2010. 
2. ^ "First Russian title for Nepomniachtchi". chessvibes.com. http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/first-russian-title-for-nepomniachtchi/. Retrieved 23 December 2010. 

• Manual 2007 of the European Chess Union (2007)
• World Youth Chess Championship 2002 TWIC

External links

• FIDE rating card for Ian Nepomniachtchi
• Ian Nepomniachtchi player profile at ChessGames.com
• Ian Nepomniachtchi player profile at the Internet Chess Club
• Biography of Ian Nepomniachtchi at the Corus Chess Web site.

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Name	Nepomniachtchi, Ian
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Date of birth	14 July 1990
Place of birth	Bryansk, Russian SFSR
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