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Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi (Russian: Ян Алекса́ндрович Непо́мнящий, romanized: Yan Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchiy, IPA: [ˈjan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ nʲɪˈpomnʲɪɕːɪj] ⓘ; born 14 July 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
Ian Nepomniachtchi: 2795 2023-03 1990 18 India: Gukesh Dommaraju: 2794 2024-10 2006 Current World Chess Champion (since 2024) 19 Azerbaijan: Teimour Radjabov: 2793 2012-11 1987 Formerly highest-ranked Azerbaijani player (2002–2005, 2006, 2009–2010, 2011–2017) 20 Russia: Alexander Morozevich: 2788 2008-07 1977 Ukraine Russia: Sergey ...
Ian Nepomniachtchi, 2786 (peak years 2020–2022) Vladimir Kramnik, 2785 (peak years 2000–2007) Viswanathan Anand, 2780 (peak years 2007–2014) Veselin Topalov, 2773 (peak years 2005–2009) Anatoly Karpov, 2746 (peak years 1974–1984) Mikhail Tal, 2711 (peak years 1958–1960) Vasily Smyslov, 2687 (peak years 1953–1957)
By winning the Candidates Tournament 2020–21, Ian Nepomniachtchi earned the right to challenge the defending world champion Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2021, which was held during Expo 2020 at Dubai Exhibition Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between 24 November and 10 December 2021. [10]
These games and calculations can go on for hours at a time; in 2021, Carlsen took seven hours and 47 minutes to defeat Nepomniachtchi in one game on his way to his fifth world title.
The World Chess Championship 2023 was a chess match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren to determine the new World Chess Champion.The match took place in Astana, Kazakhstan, from 9 April to 30 April 2023, and was a best of 14 games, plus tiebreaks.
The claims were seized on by 2023 world championship finalist Ian Nepomniachtchi, who shared a screenshot of the post on social media, adding mysteriously: “Because he’s the hero Gotham ...
The challenger was Ian Nepomniachtchi, who qualified by winning the Candidates Tournament 2020–21, an eight-player double-round robin tournament in Yekaterinburg, Russia. [3] Originally scheduled for 15 March to 5 April 2020, the tournament was halted at the halfway point on 26 March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 4 ]