Ian Nepomniachtchi

January Nepomnjaschtschi Alexandrovich (Russian Ян Александрович Непомнящий; scientific transliteration January Nepomnjaščij; * July 14, 1990 in Bryansk ) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

Life

Nepomnjaschtschi learned the game of chess with four and a half years already. He grew up in an intellectual and literary loving family; his grandfather Boris Nepomjaschtschi was a well known poet in Bryansk. Nepomjaschtschis first chess coaches were beside his uncle Igor Nepomnjaschtschi Valentin Jewdokimenko, as well as master Valeri Silberstein and Grandmaster Sergei Janowski. Age of seven he was already players in the first category, a year later champion contender. He has won numerous Russian and international youth championships. Among other things, in 2000 he was in Kallithea (Chalkidiki ) Youth European Championship U10, 2001 at the same place winner of the U12 category, Peniscola 2002, he defended his title. In 2002, he won the Junior World Championship U12. In 2003, he won a Young Masters tournament in Kirishi before Ildar Chairullin, Dmitry Andreikin and Maxim Matlakow. A year later he won the U18 Russian Youth Championship.

In 2005, he was in Belfort Youth World Champion U16. In 2006 he qualified with a shared second place in the first Russian league in Tomsk, a qualifying tournament for the Russian Championship, the first time for the finals of the Russian Cup, which was held in the same year in Moscow. In 2007 he finished second by Michał Krasenkow he could defeat the Corus C tournament in Wijk aan Zee. In the same year he again won the Young Masters tournament of Kirishi ( by Rating ago Rauf Məmmədov, Pacific Negi and Sawen Andriasjan ). 2007 FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title. The biggest success so far in his young career, he celebrated in February 2008, when he succeeded in winning the Aeroflot Open in Moscow. He scored 7 points from 9 games and was the sole first before Alexander Motyljow and Alexei Drejew. His victory also included an invitation to the Dortmund Chess Days 2008, one of the world's most prestigious elite tournaments, in which he finished shared second place. Shortly thereafter, he won one of the world 's largest open the Chess Classic in Mainz. With this victory, he was allowed in 2009 to play for the rapid chess world championship where he lost the final with 1:3 against Levon Aronian. In March 2010 he won the European Championship in Rijeka with 9 points from 11 games. In December 2010, he was Russian national champion after Tie against Sergei Karjakin.