The chess games of Ian Nepomniachtchi

I Nepomniachtchi

Photograph courtesy of Babak Zahmat.

Ian Nepomniachtchi
Number of games in database: 663
Years covered: 2001 to 2013
Last FIDE rating: 2710
Highest rating achieved in database: 2735
Overall record: +182 -91 =256 (58.6%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      134 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS

With the White pieces:

Sicilian (121)
    B90 B33 B48 B22 B32
Ruy Lopez (38)
    C65 C77 C78 C67 C72
French Defense (31)
    C11 C00 C10 C18 C01
Caro-Kann (28)
    B12 B10 B11 B18 B14
French (24)
    C11 C00 C10
Sicilian Najdorf (23)
    B90 B96 B92 B94 B95

With the Black pieces:

Sicilian (85)
    B90 B92 B51 B52 B97
Grunfeld (68)
    D85 D86 D80 D76 D74
Sicilian Najdorf (57)
    B90 B92 B97 B91 B94
French Defense (55)
    C12 C03 C11 C05 C02
French (27)
    C12 C11 C00 C13
French Tarrasch (20)
    C03 C05

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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   I Nepomniachtchi vs A A Kharitonov, 2009 1-0
   H Melkumyan vs I Nepomniachtchi, 2009 0-1
   Carlsen vs I Nepomniachtchi, 2011 0-1
   Le Quang Liem vs I Nepomniachtchi, 2008 0-1
   E Romanov vs I Nepomniachtchi, 2007 0-1
   Anand vs I Nepomniachtchi, 2009 0-1
   I Nepomniachtchi vs I Salgado Lopez, 2008 1-0
   I Nepomniachtchi vs Y Zherebukh, 2012 1/2-1/2
   Kramnik vs I Nepomniachtchi, 2011 0-1
   E Najer vs I Nepomniachtchi, 2008 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   4th Young Stars of the World (2006)
   59th Russian Championship (2006)
   Corus Group C (2007)
   Ordix Open (2008)
   Aeroflot Open (2008)
   European Club Cup (2009)
   10th European Individual Championship (2009)
   European Individual Championships (2010)
   Chess Olympiad (2010)
   World Chess Team Championship (2011)
   12th European Individual Championship (2011)
   European Individual Championships (2013)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Nepomniatchi ! by returnoftheking
   Chess Evolution Sept 2011 by jakaiden

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IAN NEPOMNIACHTCHI
(born Jul-14-1990) Russia

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Ian Nepomniachtchi, born July 14, 1990 in Bryansk, started playing chess at the tender age of 4. A former Russian junior champion, European U10 champion in 2000, European U12 champion in 2001 and 2002, World U12 champion in 2002, IM in 2004, and runner-up in the 2007 World U-18 championship, he has been coached during the past few years by one of Russia�s most reputable chess coaches, Sergey Janovsky. He lists Mikhail Tal as his favorite chess player.

In 2006 Nepomniachtchi took part in his first Russian Championship Superfinal (2006), scoring a respectable 5/11. In June 2007 his Grandmaster title was confirmed by FIDE and he won the World Youth Stars (2007) on tiebreak. He won the Aeroflot Open (2008), in the process earning an invite to the Sparkassen Chess Meeting (2008) in Germany, where he placed equal second with 4/7, half a point behind Peter Leko. He won the European Individual Championships (2010) with 9.0/11. His result as runner-up to Vassily Ivanchuk at the Capablanca Memorial (2010) took him across the 2700 threshold for the first time. In September 2010, he took another giant leap by winning Russian Championships outright with 7/10 and a 2788 performance rating, ahead of dozens of other Russian GMs, following this up a few weeks later by scoring 6.5/9 and a 2821 performance on the top board of the Russia 2 team at the Chess Olympiad (2010) thereby winning a bronze medal. He rounded off 2010 with a tiebreak win over Sergey Karjakin at the Russian Championship Superfinal (2010). He started 2011 with 6/13 in the Tata Steel (2011) and 7/11 in the 12th European Individual Championship (2011), which qualified him to play in the World Cup (2011); in that contest he defeated Cuban GM Isan Reynaldo Ortiz Suarez and compatriot Alexander Riazantsev in the first two rounds, before losing to US GM Gata Kamsky in the rapid game (25+10) tiebreaker in the third round after he had leveled the score in the classical games mini-match. In November 2011, he performed creditably at the Tal Memorial (2011) placing =3rd (5th on count back) scoring 5/9 (+1 =8 -0 and a TPR of 2820), including a win against former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. In May 2012, he came =2nd at the Capablanca Memorial (2012) and in July 2012, he was a member of the victorious Russian team that prevailed in the Russia vs China (2012) Match. He played and lost the Andreikin-Nepomniachtchi Match (2012) by 3.5-2.5 (-1 =5). In early 2013, he placed =2nd with 7/9 in the Moscow Open (2013).

Nepomniachtchi is also an excellent rapid player, taking out first in the Ordix Open (2008), beating Pavel Eljanov on tiebreak, and in 2009, he was second to Levon Aronian at the Chess Classic Mainz (rapid) (2009).

Nepomniachtchi is also now one of Carlsen's seconds.

Live rating; http://chess.liverating.org/

Wikipedia article: Ian Nepomniachtchi

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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. J Mihailovs vs I Nepomniachtchi	0-1	47	2001	EYCC B12	D85 Grunfeld
2. M Leon Hoyos vs I Nepomniachtchi	½-½	44	2001	WYB12	C05 French, Tarrasch
3. I Nepomniachtchi vs M Bobula	1-0	38	2001	EYCC B12	C10 French
4. I Nepomniachtchi vs S Azaladze	1-0	55	2001	WYB12	B06 Robatsch
5. Z Andriasian vs I Nepomniachtchi	½-½	55	2001	WYB12	C12 French, McCutcheon
6. I Nepomniachtchi vs E Krivoborodov	1-0	71	2001	EYCC B12	B18 Caro-Kann, Classical
7. I Nepomniachtchi vs A Bachmann	½-½	26	2001	WYB12	B00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening
8. Ali Kavakdere vs I Nepomniachtchi	0-1	60	2001	EYCC B12	C05 French, Tarrasch
9. S Ismail vs I Nepomniachtchi	0-1	30	2001	WYB12	C05 French, Tarrasch
10. I Nepomniachtchi vs R Hrzica	½-½	38	2001	WYB12	B10 Caro-Kann
11. M Rodshtein vs I Nepomniachtchi	0-1	72	2001	EYCC B12	A57 Benko Gambit
12. D Andreikin vs I Nepomniachtchi	1-0	40	2001	WYB12	B40 Sicilian
13. D Howell vs I Nepomniachtchi	1-0	32	2001	EYCC B12	B40 Sicilian
14. L Wu vs I Nepomniachtchi	0-1	39	2001	WYB12	A45 Queen's Pawn Game
15. I Nepomniachtchi vs T Banusz	1-0	55	2001	EYCC B12	B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
16. I Nepomniachtchi vs E Bonnet	1-0	37	2001	WYB12	B22 Sicilian, Alapin
17. I Nepomniachtchi vs D Andreikin	½-½	30	2001	EYCC B12	B22 Sicilian, Alapin
18. I Nepomniachtchi vs A Diamant	0-1	57	2001	WYB12	B22 Sicilian, Alapin
19. G Nigalidze vs I Nepomniachtchi	½-½	58	2001	EYCC B12	D86 Grunfeld, Exchange
20. J Dourerassou vs I Nepomniachtchi	0-1	29	2001	WYB12	B23 Sicilian, Closed
21. M Panarin vs I Nepomniachtchi	1-0	59	2002	ch-RUS Boys U20	C02 French, Advance
22. I Nepomniachtchi vs R Kaskevich	1-0	56	2002	3rd Stage Russian Cup	B05 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
23. I Nepomniachtchi vs Carlsen	1-0	53	2003	WYCC - B14	B22 Sicilian, Alapin
24. M Vachier-Lagrave vs I Nepomniachtchi	½-½	45	2003	Wch U14	C03 French, Tarrasch
25. I Nepomniachtchi vs K Landa	0-1	70	2004	57th Russian Championship Qualifier	B22 Sicilian, Alapin


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Nov-22-11		Akavall: <I always try to look at Cyrillic version of Russian, Ukrainian, or Serbian chess players names for example to get a better idea of how to properly pronounce their names.> !!!

Nov-22-11		acirce: <Four letters needed "shch" for one Cyrillic letter.> And here is a related question, why on earth isn't it "Grishchuk"?

Nov-22-11		I play the Fred: <acirce>, I've seen that used in the name Timoshchenko.

Nov-22-11		acirce: Yeah, and Areshchenko etc. I guess the answer to my question is "it is, but nobody cares about consistency".

Nov-22-11		I play the Fred: I wonder how much of this is because of the person in question? As you may recall (I rehash for the benefit of others) the Morphy family were once the Murphys, but the locals pronounced it as Morphy. The family just went with it and the name changed. From baseball, the last name of Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano is always pronounced on-air "kuh-NO" rather than the correct (as I know it) "KAH-no". Are the announcers all getting it wrong, or does this particular Cano family pronounce it "kuh-NO"? I don't know that answer. Perhaps Grischuk himself decided to spell it in the commonly known way and everyone went along with it.

Nov-22-11		Akavall: I always thought that: щ = sch ш = sh ч = ch was the proper transliteration.

Nov-22-11		Akavall: A side-note: SH in TimoSHenko is a different letter from SCH in GriSCHuk. Тимо Ш енко Гри Щ ук

Nov-22-11		acirce: <Akavall> Well, "proper" or not I don't know, but щ = shch is surely the standard transliteration.

Nov-22-11		Akavall: I am no expert on the proper transliteration. I guess the reason I thought that щ = sch is that in German "sch" has the same sound as Russian "щ". And German names keep their spelling, i,e. Schwarzenegger, we don't change it to Shchwarzenegger :). So I would think that it would make things simpler to use "sch" for Russian names as well.

Nov-23-11		acirce: <in German "sch" has the same sound as Russian "щ".> Are you sure it's not closer to ш? At any rate I'm not sure it's the <same> sound, it seems to me to be distinct from both. Anyway, transliterations to German apparently go like this: ш = sch щ = schtsch.

Nov-23-11		Akavall: <Are you sure it's not closer to ш? At any rate I'm not sure it's the <same> sound, it seems to me to be distinct from both.> I could be wrong, but that's how I pronounced my German :). When I think about it, English "sh" is closer to щ than ш, but different from both. <щ = schtsch> wow!

Nov-23-11		mrbasso: I think with such name he should be happy to be called Nepo. I'm tempted to call him Nepomuk.

Nov-23-11		acirce: Yes, "schtsch" was Wikipedia's only example of a heptagraph :)

Nov-23-11		acirce: Since I brought up Areshchenko for some reason, there is a difference between the Russian and the Ukrainian щ too, right? I'm glad we've sorted out all the confusion :)

Nov-23-11		Akavall: <Are you sure it's not closer to ш? At any rate I'm not sure it's the <same> sound, it seems to me to be distinct from both.> You seem to be right :), but it is somewhat complicated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kDE... I like the schon vs sch�n example. Sch is ш in the former, but more like щ in the latter. Though normally "sch" is like ш.

Nov-23-11		Akavall: <Since I brought up Areshchenko for some reason, there is a difference between the Russian and the Ukrainian щ too, right?> I don't know anything about Ukrainian щ, sorry! <I'm glad we've sorted out all the confusion :)> Hehe. We did sort out some of it :).

Nov-23-11		acirce: Thanks for the video, that is somewhat clarifying. Now I'm finally going to bed, it's getting awfully early over here :)

Nov-23-11		paulalbert: Gentlemen I've been enjoying reading this discussion I've stirred up. I would agree it should be Grishchuk for English transliteration in the standard distinction between "sh" and "shch" for Cyrillic letters to Latin alphabet in English. My wife is German, so I am constantly berated when my German is not pronounced exactly right, so I try to listen carefully to sounds and try to get them right if I can, but very difficult if not a native speaker. One final comment about Russian chess names: For me in English Chigorin is correct; in German Tschigorin is correct; but Tchigorin which I see frequently seems a misguided mixture. You need the Ts in German to convey the sound ( otherwise you have ch in German which is similar to the Cyrillic X ) but just "ch" in English as in the word "cheek" seems sufficient for me in English.

Feb-10-12		Penguincw: Nepo held to a draw today by Yaroslav Zherebukh. I Nepomniachtchi vs Y Zherebukh, 2012

Jun-20-12		SamAtoms1980: Carlsen was definitely lucky that this guy, who has proven to be his pimp, chose to play in the Russian Championship rather than the Tal Memorial.

Jul-14-12		waustad: Happy 22nd to Nepo!

Jul-14-12		brankat: Happy Birthday!

Jul-14-12		Six66timesGenius: Happy birth day!

Dec-01-12		Karpova: How to pronounce his name: <Malcolm had a valiant go at it but passed the microphone to Vlad Kramnik for a definitive Russian pronunciation. �I can do it better,� said Vlad. I can�t render the Kramnik pronunciation in print but it was something like �Nepomniashee�, with a very slight accentuation of the �om� syllable, with the voice falling away on the subsequent syllables.> Source: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...

Mar-27-13		ProjectF: He can beat anybody, but his rating is too low..

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