Ian Aleksandrovich Nepomniachtchi is a Russia

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n chess

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 grandmaster

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 and the chess champion of Russia

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 in 2010. , he was listed by FIDE as having an Elo rating of 2730.

He won the European Youth Chess Championship

European Youth Chess Championship

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 three times, in 2000 in the U10 category, and in 2001 and 2002 in the U12. In 2002 he also won the World Youth Chess Championship

World Youth Chess Championship

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 in the U12 category. By winning the Aeroflot Open

Aeroflot Open

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 in Moscow in February 2008, he qualified for the 2008 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting

Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting

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. In 2010, in Rijeka

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, he won the European Individual Chess Championship with 9/11. In the same year, in Moscow, he won the Russian Chess Championship

Russian Chess Championship

-Imperial Russia:In 1874, Emanuel Schiffers defeated Andrey Chardin in a match held in St. Petersburg with five wins and four losses. Schiffers was considered the first Russian champion until his student, Mikhail Chigorin, defeated him in a match held in St. Petersburg in 1879...

, defeating Sergey Karjakin

Sergey Karjakin

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 in a playoff. In November 2011 Nepomniachtchi tied for 3rd–5th with Vasily Ivanchuk and Sergey Karjakin in the category 22 Tal Memorial in Moscow.

External links

• Biography of Ian Nepomniachtchi at the Corus Chess
  Corus chess tournament
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