Ian Nepomniachtchi

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Ian Nepomniachtchi
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Full name Ian Nepomniachtchi
Country Flag of Russia Russia
Born July 14, 1990 (1990-07-14) (age 17)
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2634
(No. 86 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating 2634 (April 2008)

Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russian: Ян Непомнящий) is a Russian chess grandmaster. As of January 2008, he was listed by FIDE as having an ELO rating of 2600. 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.

[edit] References

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

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