Alexander Ipatov
Number of games in database: 226
Years covered: 2006 to 2013
Last FIDE rating: 2601
Overall record: +87 -45 =89 (59.5%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games Based on games in the database; may be incomplete. 5 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
Nimzo Indian (21)
E21 E29 E46 E28 E43
Slav (13)
D11 D18 D15 D10 D12
Queen's Pawn Game (12)
A41 E10 A45 D00 E00
King's Indian (12)
E90 E70 E77 E64 E62
Grunfeld (10)
D91 D85 D71 D80 D94
Queen's Gambit Declined (8)
D31 D30 D39 D38 D37
With the Black pieces:
Caro-Kann (15)
B10 B12 B18 B11
Slav (14)
D10 D11 D17 D18 D12
Sicilian (13)
B30 B32 B63 B22 B78
Petrov (12)
C42 C43
Queen's Gambit Declined (11)
D35 D31 D37 D36
Queen's Pawn Game (9)
A40 D00 A50 A45 E10

NOTABLE GAMES: what is this?
N Grandelius vs A Ipatov, 2012 0-1
M Kazhgaleyev vs A Ipatov, 2010 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: what is this?
Moscow Open (2010)
27th Cappelle-la-Grande (2011)
Bundesliga (2012)
Chigorin Memorial (2012)
World Junior Championship (2012)
Golden Sands (2012)
13th European Individual Championship (2012)
Reykjavik Open (2012)
Chess Olympiad (2012)
Reykjavik Open (2013)
European Individual Championships (2013)
World Junior Championship (2013)

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ALEXANDER IPATOV
(born Jul-16-1993) Ukraine (citizen of Turkey)
what is this?
Grandmaster (2011) and World Junior champion 2012. Born and raised in Ukraine, Ipatov moved to Spain before settling in Turkey. Ipatov's first GM norm was awarded for scoring 5.5/9 in the powerful Moscow Open 2010. His second was acquired from his result at the 27th Cappelle-la-Grande (2011), when he came second with 7/9 (+6 -1 =2) behind GM Grzegorz Gajewski. His 3rd norm followed for his results at the 2011 Nakhchivan Open when he placed =2nd behind Anton Korobov and alongside Zoltan Almasi, Francisco Vallejo-Pons and Ivan Sokolov.

Most recently, he won the World Junior Championship (2012) with 10/13 on the basis of a better tiebreak (sum of opponent's ratings less the lowest) ahead of Hungary's Richard Rapport. This victory also qualified him to participate in the World Cup (2013), where he played and lost to Filipino GM Wesley So in the first round by 1.5-0.5. He attempted to defend his title at the World Junior Championship (2013), but a resurgent Yangyi Yu outlasted him by half a point, relegating him to second place with 10.5/13 (+8 =5).

http://www.alexipatov.com/

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Game Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening
1. I Nyzhnyk vs A Ipatov 1-0 51 2006 UKR-ch U16 sf C42 Petrov Defense 2. A Vovk vs A Ipatov 1-0 36 2007 Ukranian U20 Championships B78 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 10.castle long 3. A Ipatov vs S Lots 1-0 32 2007 Ukranian U20 Championships D07 Queen's Gambit Declined, Chigorin Defense 4. A Ipatov vs I Nyzhnyk ½-½ 34 2007 UKR-ch U14 E43 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation 5. A Ipatov vs A Tukhaev 1-0 37 2007 Ukranian U20 Championships E70 King's Indian 6. Y Vovk vs A Ipatov 1-0 30 2007 Ukranian U20 Championships D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 7. A Ipatov vs I Nyzhnyk 0-1 41 2007 UKR-ch U16 E45 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Bronstein (Byrne) Variation 8. D Kononenko vs A Ipatov 1-0 26 2007 Ukranian U20 Championships C42 Petrov Defense 9. V Onischuk vs A Ipatov ½-½ 43 2007 Ukranian U20 Championships C42 Petrov Defense 10. A Ipatov vs N Zhornik ½-½ 42 2007 Ukranian U20 Championships E59 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line 11. A Grekh vs A Ipatov ½-½ 36 2007 Ukranian U20 Championships C42 Petrov Defense 12. A Ipatov vs Y Zherebukh 0-1 59 2007 Ukranian U20 Championships A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack 13. M Kravtsiv vs A Ipatov ½-½ 23 2007 Ukranian U20 Championships B20 Sicilian 14. A Ipatov vs R Milutin 1-0 25 2008 Alushta Tournaments D35 Queen's Gambit Declined 15. A Ipatov vs N Ibraev 1-0 38 2008 Alushta Tournaments A70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3 16. A Ipatov vs A Obukhov 1-0 33 2008 Alushta Tournaments A84 Dutch 17. V Belikov vs A Ipatov ½-½ 30 2008 Alushta Tournaments C42 Petrov Defense 18. B Kharchenko vs A Ipatov 1-0 37 2008 Alushta Tournaments B22 Sicilian, Alapin 19. A Ipatov vs A Khudiakov 1-0 25 2008 Alushta Tournaments A41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6) 20. A Ipatov vs T Iljin ½-½ 76 2008 Alushta Tournaments E46 Nimzo-Indian 21. A Chernoukhov vs A Ipatov 0-1 52 2008 Alushta Tournaments D00 Queen's Pawn Game 22. D Petrosian vs A Ipatov ½-½ 8 2008 Alushta Tournaments C42 Petrov Defense 23. H Simonian vs A Ipatov ½-½ 14 2008 Alushta Tournaments C43 Petrov, Modern Attack 24. A Ipatov vs G Harutjunyan 0-1 46 2008 Alushta Tournaments E46 Nimzo-Indian 25. M Dziuba vs A Ipatov 1-0 39 2009 Aeroflot Open D85 Grunfeld

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Jul-14-08 BIDMONFA: Alexander Ipatov
IPATOV, Alexander
http://www.bidmonfa.com/ipatov_alex...
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Apr-24-10 sulotas: This guy is one of the commentators in the chessbomb.com website for Anand-Topalov match and in the first game today I couldn't stand his comments as he is so much biased in favor of Topalov and he mentioned how Topalov's preparation was so deep in every second during the game (even before Anand's blunder before the knight sacrifice). And I find it very odd that his rating was more than 2500 once upon a time but now it is only 2056.

Apr-25-10 Wrong: <solutas> his 2056 rating must be a lie http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?...

Apr-25-10 Wrong: on his fide profile ,he was born in 1993,how come had a game in 1993 weird... maybe he learned to play chess when he was 1 year old.

Apr-25-10 sulotas: <Wrong> Either this is the wrong Ipatov entry that I am commenting under, or that 1993 game is wrong (maybe a different Ipatov's game). There is thirteen years gap between that game and the one in 2006 as chessgames.com shows. I guess there is something wrong with the info here; I can't imagine an IM (Yes! That biased guy is an IM!) with a FIDE rating 2056.

Jul-23-10
PhilFeeley: There's definitely an error in his rating here. He's currently playing in Andorra (http://www.escacsandorra.com/) and he's listed with a rating of 2507. He's tied with many others for 2nd with a performance rating of 2530.

Jun-10-11
wordfunph: Ipatov commented the So-Giri game in chessbomb yesterday but i was not aware he's a GM..

Jul-16-12
brankat: Happy Birthday GM Ipatov!

Jul-16-12
waustad: He celebrated his B'day with a draw against Judit Polgar!

Aug-09-12
technical draw: He's leading in the world junior ahead of favorite Ling Diren.

Aug-15-12 joeyj: Alexander Ipatov is World Junior Chess Champion Aug 15, 2012
Alexander Ipatov won the World Junior Chess Championship in Athens, Greece. Ipatov collected 10,0/13 to claim first place.

Second place is for GM Rapport who scored the same points, but has worse tiebreak.

http://www.chessdom.com/alexander-i...

Aug-15-12 joeyj: Congratulations GM Alexander Ipatov ... 2012 World Junior Chess Champion !!!

Aug-15-12 joeyj: GM Alexander Ipatov
August 2012 FIDE Rating: 2577

FIDE rtg (WJCC-2012): 24.4

Live Rating : 2601.4 (assuming he doesn't have pending rating from other tournaments not yet reported for Sep 2012 FIDE rating).

ref: http://chess-results.com/tnr76324.a...

Aug-15-12
wordfunph: congrats GM Alexander Ipatov --- 2012 World Junior Chess Champion!

Aug-16-12
whiteshark: The new World Junior Champion is 19 years old. He received his chess education in Ukraine, where he took up chess at age four under the guidance of his father. In 2003 Ipatov was the runner-up at the U10 Ukrainian Championship, and he was again 2nd in 2007 at the U14 Championship. A year later the 14-year-old Alexander had another two silver medals – in the Ukrainian U16 and U20 Championships!

In 2009 he moved with his family to Spain, where he rapidly became the country's strongest youngster and played under its flag. In February 2012 Alexander Ipatov moved again to represent Turkey.

Source: http://www.whychess.org/en/node/2745

Aug-17-12
HeMateMe: A product of Ukrainian chess, he has won the world junior championship, while representing Turkey. Nothing wrong with that, I guess. I assume that Turkey has given him some nice financial compensation to be their top guy, probably board No. 1 in Olympiad play, down the road?

Jan-01-13
whiteshark: "From 10 to 27 of January 2013 I will be participating in the Tata Steel B-group. It wil take place in Wijk aan Zee (The Netherlands) and will be played under the Round-Robin system of 13 rounds. I belong to the second part of participants by rating,but I will fight! " http://www.alexipatov.com/2013/01/0...

Tough competition. Good Luck, Alex!

Jun-24-13
whiteshark: <How to conquer fear> "What is the most dangerous thing you have done as a chess grandmaster? Taking the b2-pawn in a Najdorf? Well, here's a young fellow who is willing to go further. Alexander Ipatov, 19, Junior World Champion, took a bungy leap from the Macau Tower, plunging from the tower's outer rim, 233 meters above the ground. It is all caught in a stomach-churning video. ..."

http://www.chessbase.com/Home/TabId...

Jul-04-13 Eti fan: The profile of the world junior champion Ipatov at Chess Arena https://arena.chessdom.com/profile/...

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