Ivan Popov (born 20 March 1990) is a Russian

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player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by

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in 2007. In 2006, he won the "Vanya Somov Memorial – Young Stars of the World" tournament in

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, Russia, scoring 8½/11 points, half point ahead of

Ian Nepomniachtchi Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi ( rus, Ян Алекса́ндрович Непо́мнящий, r=Yan Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchiy, p=ˈjan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ nʲɪˈpomnʲɪɕːɪj, a=Ru-Ian Alexandrovich Nepomnyashchij.ogg; born 14 J ...

. Popov became Russian junior champion in 2007. In the same year, he also won the under-18 division of the

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s and was runner-up in the

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. In 2012, Popov won the Moscow Chess Championship. 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

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International Open. In September of the same year, he took part in the

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, from which he was eliminated in round one by

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. Two months later, Popov won the 2015 European

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Championship in

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, Belarus. In January 2016, Popov won the 14th Parsvnath

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International Open edging out Attila Czebe and Valeriy Neverov on a tie-break score, after all three players finished on 8/10 points. Later in the same year, he played in the

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for team SHSM Legacy Square Moscow, which took the bronze medal.

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Ivan Popov
chess games at ''365Chess''

team chess record at ''Olimpbase'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Popov, Ivan 1990 births Living people Chess grandmasters World Youth Chess Champions Russian chess players Sportspeople from Rostov-on-Don