Jan Alexandrovich Nepomnyashchi

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Ian Nepomniachtchi Valley Memorial 2018.jpg
Jan Nepomnyashchi, 2018
Association RussiaRussia Russia
Born July 14, 1990
Bryansk
title International Master (2004)
Grand Master (2007)
Current  rating 2789 (April 2021)
Best rating 2789 (January 2021)
Index card at FIDE (English)

Jan Alexandrowitsch Nepomnjaschtschi ( Russian Ян Александрович Непомнящий ; scientific transliteration Jan Nepomnjaščij ; born July 14, 1990 in Brjansk ) is a Russian chess grandmaster . He will be the challenger to world champion Magnus Carlsen at the 2021 World Chess Championship .

Life

Nepomnyashchi learned to play chess at the age of four and a half. He grew up in an intellectual and literary family; his grandfather Boris Nepomnyashchi was a well-known lyric poet in Bryansk. Nepomjashchi's first chess coaches were his uncle Igor Nepomnjashchi Valentin Evdokimenko as well as Master Valeri Silberstein and Grandmaster Sergei Janowski . At the age of seven he was already a player in the 1st category, a year later he was a candidate for the championship. He won numerous Russian and international youth championships. Among other things, he was U10 European Youth Champion in 2000 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki) , in 2001 at the same place winner of the U12 category, and in 2002 in Peniscola he defended his title. In 2002 he won the U12 World Youth Championship . In 2003 he won a young championship tournament in Kirishi ahead of Ildar Chairullin , Dmitri Andreikin and Maxim Matlakow . A year later he won the Russian U18 youth championship.

In 2005 he was U16 youth world champion in Belfort . In 2006 he qualified with a tied second place in the first Russian league in Tomsk , a qualifying tournament for the Russian championship, for the first time for the final of the Russian championship , which was held in Moscow that same year . In 2007 he finished second after Michał Krasenkow , whom he defeated, at the Corus-C tournament in Wijk aan Zee . In the same year he again won the young championship tournament in Kirischi (after ranking in front of Rauf Məmmədov , Parimarjan Negi and Sawen Andriasjan ). 2007, he was awarded FIDE the Grandmaster title .

Jan Nepomnjaschtschi, Dortmund 2008

He celebrated the greatest success of his young career to date in February 2008 when he succeeded in winning the Aeroflot Open in Moscow. He scored 7 points from 9 games and was the only one ahead of Alexander Motyljow and Alexei Drejew . His victory also earned him an invitation to the Dortmund Chess Days 2008, one of the world's most prestigious elite tournaments, in which he shared 2nd place. Shortly afterwards he won one of the world's largest open, the Chess Classic in Mainz. With this victory he was allowed to play for the rapid chess world championship in 2009 , where he lost 3-1 to Levon Aronjan in the final . In March 2010 he won the European Championship in Rijeka with 9 points from 11 games. In December 2010 he became the Russian national champion after a playoff against Sergei Karjakin . At the FIDE Rapid World Championship in June 2013 in Khanty-Mansiysk , he was second behind Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov . At the Blitz Chess World Championship in Dubai in June 2014 , he won the silver medal behind Magnus Carlsen . In July 2018 he won the Dortmund Chess Days for the first time with 5 points from 7 games. In December 2020 he won the national championship for the second time in Moscow.

Via the FIDE Grand Prix 2019 he was able to qualify for the 2020 Candidates Tournament, which he won early on April 26, 2021 after the resumption.

Elo development

National team

Nepomnyashchi took part in the 2010 Chess Olympiad with the second Russian team and in the 2014 Chess Olympiad with the Russian team. He achieved the third best individual result on the first board in 2010 and on the reserve board in 2014. He also took part in the 2011 and 2013 World Team Championships. In 2013 he won with Russia, in 2011 he achieved the best individual result on the third board and in 2013 on the fourth board. He took part in the European team championships in 2011 and 2015, won them with Russia in 2015 and at the same time achieved the third-best result on the fourth board.

societies

In the Russian team championship in 2006, Nepomnyashchi played for Tomsk-400, with whom he won the European Club Cup in the same year , in 2007 for Elara Tscheboksary, in 2008 and 2009 for SchSM-64 Moscow, in 2010 for Ural Yekaterinburg, 2011 and 2012 for Ekonomist-SGSEU -1 Saratov as well as 2013 and 2014 for SchSM-Nasche Nasledije Moscow.

Trivia

Translated into German, the Russian name Nepomnjaschtschi means something like "He who does not remember".

Web links

Commons : Jan Nepomnyashchi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Zentralnyj Jewrejski Resurs Sem40 (Russian) ( Memento from July 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Biographical information according to Анна Рудницка - Ход за Яном (Russian)
  3. Jörg Schulz: European Championship U10-U18 . JugendSchach Edition 9/2002, pp. 4–14 (report, tables, photos and games).
  4. Tournament results 2000–2007 according to Chessbase Megabase 2008
  5. Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2008 in the Dortmund Schauspielhaus on TeleSchach
  6. Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
  7. Jan Nepomnjaschtschi's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. Board prices at the Chess Olympiad 2014 on chess-results.com
  9. Jan Nepomnyashchi's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. Jan Nepomnyashchi's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  11. Jan Nepomnjaschtschi's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  12. Jan Nepomnyashchi's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  13. Westfälische Nachrichten of April 27, 2021 and faz.net of April 28, 2021 , each viewed on April 30, 2021