Archive for Ian Nepomniachtchi
Saturday, March 02, 2013 11:36
According to DGT, their clock did not malfunction during the Aeroflot blitz final in February. The strange behavior of the clock in the Nepomniachtchi-Svidler game was a rather the result of a manual clock setting by an arbiter who preferred to keep the option of two flags falling.
The final moments of the Nepomniachtchi-Svidler game, with the...
Friday, February 15, 2013 11:51
Ian Nepomniachtchi won the super strong blitz tournament held on Thursday in Moscow as part of the Aeroflot Chess Festival. The Russian grandmaster was leading by a full point with two rounds to go, but these were the double rounds against runner-up Peter Svidler. The first was won by Svidler, who lost the second game, in the final round, on time...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 13:52
The top group of the Moscow Open chess festival was won by Boris Savchenko. In the final round the Russian grandmaster kept his head cool in a highly complex with his compatriot Pavel Ponkratov, where both sides made mistakes while playing for a win. Savchenko emerged as the winner and became the only player to finish on 7.5 points, half a point...
Monday, December 31, 2012 10:30
Sergey Karjakin won the original Piterenka rapid/blitz tournament on Saturday where the prize was a piece of land in the Moscow region, along the river Piterenka. In the all-decisive Armageddon game Karjakin was a full rook down against Alexander Grischuk, who allowed a stalemate.
Sergey Karjakin | Photo Galina Popova for the Russian Chess...
Friday, December 28, 2012 9:07
A remarkable one-day tournament will be held tomorrow, December 29th, 2012 in Moscow with four Russian top grandmasters: Sergey Karjakin, Alexander Grischuk, Dmitry Jakovenko and Ian Nepomniachtchi. The winner will receive a piece of land in the Moscow region, along the river Piterenka.
The tournament is a round robin, with one round to be played...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 16:27
The 4th edition of the London Chess Classic takes off this Saturday. It runs 1-10 December 2012 at the Olympia Conference Centre in Kensington, London. The pairings are already known, and the first round will have McShane-Carlsen, Aronian-Nakamura, Kramnik-Polgar and Jones-Adams. Top seed Magnus Carlsen has to do without his second Ian...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012 10:22
Dmitry Andreikin won the friendly match with Ian Nepomniachtchi with a score of 3.5-2.5. The last three games ended in a draw. On the final day, one rapid game was played because the main game ended in a draw in less than three hours. Nepomniachtchi won this game.
Andreikin (l.) and Nepomniachtchi after their last game | Photos courtesy of the...
Saturday, November 03, 2012 13:00
Dmitry Andreikin leads a friendly, 6-game match against Ian Nepomniachtchi with a score of 2-1. The match has the same sponsor as the Aronian-Kramnik earlier this year, and a similar rule is in effect: in case of short draws the players will turn to rapid chess.
Andreikin (l.) and Nepomniachtchi | Photos courtesy of the Russian Chess Federation...
Sunday, June 03, 2012 19:09
The Anand-Gelfand World Championship match finished four days ago, but the news stream hasn't stopped yet. Vladimir Putin inviting the players at his office, Anand's arrival in India, Gelfand's return to Israel, the reactions on Twitter, Kasparov's criticism, Anand's reaction... In this article we'll mention the most important developments since...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:12
Vassily Ivanchuk won the Capablanca Memorial in Havana, Cuba on Monday. The Ukrainian, who finished a point clear of Ian Nepomniachtchi and Leinier Dominguez, won the tournament for the 6th time in his career.
Vassily Ivanchuk against Ian Nepomniachtchi in round 4, with Leinier Dominguez watching | Photo © Columna Deportiva
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