Sergey Yanovsky Attributes Nepomniachtchi's Chess Career to Input from Russian Coaches
The grandmaster's interview in TASS.
The Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi's outstanding talent needed further shaping from a number of coaches. GM Sergey Yanovsky, Nepomniachtchi's former coach, voiced this opinion to Andrey Kartashov from TASS on Wednesday.
"I started working with him when he was 10 years old. As we spent much time training during the initial three or four years, I was his head coach. However, I then started using assistance from the coaches I knew and soon realised that it was the right thing to do," added Yanovsky. – Such an outstanding chess player's future success took assistance from a whole range of specialists. Ian had much communication with our outstanding coach Mark Dvoretsky and attended his lectures, and later Sergey Shipov, our well-known commentator and strong grandmaster, helped much as well.
The Central Chess Club on Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow features a fan area, which allows spectators to follow the course of the world chess crown match between Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia and Ding Liren of China.
"Ian is gifted with a very bright talent and non-standard decision taking ability, which is of importance as he often comes back with moves out of anybody else's radar. He is in his element in complex positions with many continuations to choose from. Thus, both Ding Liren and [Magnus] Carlsen tend to relatively calm and low-risk positions, whereas Ian is ready to go for high risk and positions rich in tactical continuations. In this respect we can considered him to be a successor of such chess players as Alexander Alekhine and Mikhail Tal," he added.
Sergey Yanovsky's training period with Nepomniachtchi lasted from years 2000 to 2009.
32 years of age, Nepomniachtchi is a participant of the April 12-29 world championship match against Ding Liren of China. Going into game four, the match score is 2:1 in favour of the Russian GM. Nepomniachtchi also participated in the 2021 world chess crown match, but went down to Magnus Carlsen of Norway with the score of 3.5-7.5.
Nepomniachtchi became the 2010 European champion, took the World Team Championship as a member of the Russian national team on two occasions (2013, 2019), and is a two-time Russian champion (2010, 2020).
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