Ivan Popov (chess player)

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Ivan Popov
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Ivan Popov at the 2008 World Junior Championship, Gaziantep
Country Russia
Born (1990-03-20) 20 March 1990 (age 33)
Rostov-on-Don, [1] Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster (2007)
FIDE   rating 2628 (November 2023)
Peak rating 2661 (September 2015)
Peak rankingNo. 79 (September 2015)

Ivan Popov (born 20 March 1990) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007.

In 2006, he won the "Vanya Somov Memorial – Young Stars of the World" tournament in Kirishi, Russia, scoring 8½/11 points, half point ahead of Ian Nepomniachtchi. [2] Popov became Russian junior champion in 2007. [3] In the same year, he also won the under-18 division of the World Youth Chess Championships and was runner-up in the World Junior Chess Championship.

In 2012, Popov won the Moscow Chess Championship. [4] The following year, he competed in the FIDE World Cup, where he was knocked out in the first round by Markus Ragger.

In January 2015, he won the 7th Chennai International Open. [5] In September of the same year, he took part in the World Cup, from which he was eliminated in round one by Samuel Shankland. Two months later, Popov won the 2015 European Rapid Chess Championship in Minsk, Belarus. [6] In January 2016, Popov won the 14th Parsvnath Delhi International Open edging out Attila Czebe and Valeriy Neverov on a tie-break score, after all three players finished on 8/10 points. [7] Later in the same year, he played in the European Chess Club Cup for team SHSM Legacy Square Moscow, [8] which took the bronze medal. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Grandmaster title application (JPG). FIDE.
  2. ↑ Crowther, Mark (22 May 2006). "4th Young Stars of the World". The Week in Chess . Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Popov Ivan". Chess Network Company. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015.
  4. ↑ Goran (19 March 2012). "GM Ivan Popov convincing winner of the 2012 Moscow Chess Championship". Chessdom. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  5. ↑ Goran (7 January 2015). "Ivan Popov wins 7th Chennai International Open title". Chessdom. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  6. ↑ Goran. "European Rapid Chess Championship 2015: Ivan Popov is the winner". Chessdom. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  7. ↑ Goran. "Ivan Popov wins 14th Delhi Open on tie-break". Chessdom. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  8. ↑ Goran (5 August 2016). "SHSM "Legacy Square" Moscow enters European Club Cup 2016". Chessdom. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  9. ↑ Baldauf, Marco (15 November 2016). "Alkaloid triumphs at the European Club Cup in Novi Sad". ChessBase. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
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