Ian Nepomniachtchi, challenger to Magnus Carlsen's World
Championship title in 2021, is an outstanding chess talent. "Nepo"
as he is universally known is a fascinating player and this book
assesses his career and analyses his original and creative style in
great depth with numerous deeply annotated games. Nepo is one of
the very few players in the world to hold (at least prior to the
match) a plus score (four wins to one with six draws) against
Carlsen in classical chess. Nepo and Carlsen are peers and first
started playing each other in the Under-12 category of the World
Youth Championship in 2002. In that event, Nepo edged out Carlsen
on tie-break. At that time he out-rated Carlsen by 100 points and
was generally considered to be the more promising of the two
prodigies. Nepo is a fascinating player who loves open and
irrational positions and excels when on the attack. Unsurprisingly,
he cites Mikhail Tal as his all-time favorite player and says Tal
is the player who has exerted the greatest influence on him. As
with that great Latvian genius, Nepo thrives on anarchy and chaos
and has frequently got the better of Carlsen in games with
mind-boggling complications. He is also lethal when he has the
initiative. Nepo has steadily climbed the world rankings and his
finest achievement was his victory in the 2020/2021 Candidates'
tournament with 81/2/14 points (+5-2=7) which gave him the right to
challenge Carlsen for the world title.
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