Ian's first coaches were his uncle Igor Nepomniashchy, Valentin Evdokimenko, international master Valery Zilberstein and grandmaster Sergei Yanovsky. His grandfather Boris Iosifovich Nepomniashchy (1929–1998) was a famous teacher and lyricist in Bryansk. Nepomniachtchi learned to play chess at the age of four. In July 2022, he won the 2022 FIDE Candidates tournament with a round to spare, thereby winning two Candidates tournaments in a row and again qualifying him to play in the World Chess Championship 2023 additionally, he garnered the highest score in any Candidates tournament since the modern format was introduced in 2013. In December 2021, he lost his challenge to defending champion Magnus Carlsen. He won the 2021 FIDE Candidates tournament with a round to spare, which qualified him as the challenger in the World Chess Championship 2021 for the world championship title. In December 2019, he qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2020–2021 by finishing second in the FIDE Grand Prix 2019. He has won two silver medals in the World Rapid Championship and a silver medal at the World Blitz Championship as well as winning the 2008 Ordix Open. In October 2016, Nepomniachtchi was ranked fourth in the world in both rapid chess and blitz chess. Nepomniachtchi won the 2015 European Team Chess Championship in Reykjavík with the Russian team. He won the World Team Chess Championship as a member of the Russian team in Antalya (2013) and Astana (2019). He also won the 2016 Tal Memorial and both the 20 Aeroflot Open events. Nepomniachtchi won the 20 Russian Superfinal and the 2010 European Individual titles.

Yan Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchiy, IPA: ( listen) born 14 July 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Nepomniachtchi at the World Chess Championship 2021

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