Talk:Ian Nepomniachtchi

russian jewels

Ian is another Russian jewel

78.84.5.144 (talk) 08:02, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

The Russian Name Ian

Is there a story as to how he came to be named Ian? One would, of course, expect "Ivan."

What an English reader would automatically pronounce when reading "Ian" has not much to do with the Russian pronounciation. The thing is that for some reason the Cyrilic letter 'Я' is represented by "Ia". Maybe you know the female form of the name "Iana". I believe in that case the usual transcription is actually "Yana" and is pronounced correctly by native English speakers. Same with the aircraft designer Yakovlev ... same letter at the begining of his name. So, thinking about it now, I would say that Mr. Nepo intentionally choose the English name Ian instead of writing Yan which would have been a correct representation. I am not sure if Ivan is indeed the Russian version of Yan. JB. --92.195.11.88 (talk) 07:10, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

His name is not Ivan, but Yan; the name according to current transliteration standard is Yan Nepomnyashchiy. He uses the older French style transliteration, for what reason I don't know. If anyone has a source on why this is, perhaps add it to the article. 162.208.171.22 (talk) 16:54, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

??? Sorry, but where did I write about "Ivan" ? JB. --92.193.153.104 (talk) 11:30, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Nepomniachtchi just finished second in the so-called Rapid Chess World Championship in Mainz, Germany, losing in the final playoff to Lev Aronian. Third and fourth, tied, were world champion Vishy Anand and Arkady Naiditsch. 68.3.136.163 (talk) 14:13, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Speaking of stories of names

His surname means literally: "He who does not remember" a bit fitting for Chess GM, no? :D —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.245.213.210 (talk) 19:06, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

• Since a huge memory is one of a chess master's most important attributes, I think the name is wildly inappropriate! J S Ayer (talk) 22:16, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Portrait

Maybe someone should upload a new picture of Nepomniachtchi, you know, out of respect. 217.191.33.181 (talk) 18:43, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Here are some of the available images and the year of each photo

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--Marc Kupper|talk 07:23, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Peak Ranking

Please do not use the 2700.com live rating website for peak rankings. Use only the official FIDE list. Per that list, Ian's highest rank is world #7.

Dota player

I don't think this is relevant to stay in the opening sentence of the article and it doesn't seem that his e-sports career alone would make him notable for a Wikipedia article. This should be expanded and moved anywhere else in the article.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:12, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

We can move it to the bottom of the lead section. But there is definitely no weight problem given the size of the rest of the article. Chess part is not 100% of the article so we can't make the lead section look like he only played/plays chess.--Renat 12:52, 29 April 2021 (UTC)