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Ivan Popov
I Popov 
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Number of games in database: 826
Years covered: 1999 to 2025
Last FIDE rating: 2613 (2577 rapid, 2554 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2661
Overall record: +220 -106 =230 (60.3%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 270 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (161) 
    B90 B45 B30 B48 B53
 French Defense (52) 
    C11 C01 C13 C12 C07
 Caro-Kann (35) 
    B10 B12 B11 B18 B15
 Sicilian Najdorf (35) 
    B90 B92 B93 B91 B97
 Sicilian Taimanov (30) 
    B48 B45 B46 B47 B49
 Ruy Lopez (28) 
    C67 C78 C65 C85 C77
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (76) 
    B46 B40 B22 B45 B29
 Slav (58) 
    D15 D12 D10 D11 D17
 Caro-Kann (55) 
    B12 B18 B10 B13
 Queen's Pawn Game (31) 
    D02 A50 A45 E00 A40
 Reti System (21) 
    A06 A04 A05
 Ruy Lopez (21) 
    C69 C63 C80 C95 C65
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   I Popov vs E Tairova, 2006 1-0
   I Popov vs A Grigoryan, 2007 1-0
   I Popov vs Nepomniachtchi, 2008 1-0
   I Popov vs H Stefansson, 2015 1/2-1/2
   I Popov vs M Manakova, 2015 1-0
   H Rudolf vs I Popov, 2019 0-1
   I Popov vs E Nakar, 2012 1-0
   I Popov vs Lagno, 2013 1-0
   A Adly vs I Popov, 2007 0-1
   I Popov vs K Grigoryan, 2014 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   4th Young Stars of the World (2006)
   PSC / Puregold Open (2014)
   World Junior Championship (2007)
   European Club Cup (2019)
   48th World Junior Championship (2009)
   Russian Championship Higher League (2015)
   9th HDBank Masters (2019)
   Inautomarket Open (2008)
   European Club Cup (2014)
   Voronezh Master Open (2017)
   Chigorin Memorial (2018)
   European Championship (2011)
   European Championship (2014)
   Chigorin Memorial (2012)
   European Club Cup (2016)

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 TCh-RUS Premier
   I Popov vs E Obgolts (Apr-29-25) 1-0
   I Popov vs I Parpiev (Apr-28-25) 1-0
   I Popov vs N Dovbnia (Apr-26-25) 1/2-1/2
   B Savchenko vs I Popov (May-08-23) 1/2-1/2
   R Kezin vs I Popov (May-07-23) 1/2-1/2

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IVAN POPOV
(born Mar-20-1990, 35 years old) Russia
PRONUNCIATION:
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GM Ivan Popov won the 2007 U-18 World Youth Chess Championship and the Vladimir Open 2007 with 8/10, and was runner up in the World Junior Championship (2007). His strong result in the European Individual Championship (2013) (7.5/11) qualified him to play in the World Cup (2013) from which he was eliminated when he lost in the first round match to Austrian #1, GM Markus Ragger.

Popov's 7.5/11 at the European Individual Championship (2015) qualified him to play at the World Cup (2015) where he was eliminated in the first round by US GM Samuel Shankland.

Wikipedia article: Ivan Popov (chess player)

Last updated: 2019-02-13 06:12:24

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 page 1 of 34; games 1-25 of 828  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. E Can vs I Popov  0-1331999EU-ch U10D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
2. P Ponkratov vs I Popov  ½-½642002Int Youth Games U14B18 Caro-Kann, Classical
3. Dvoirys vs I Popov 1-0512004Aeroflot OpenA07 King's Indian Attack
4. S Zagrebelny vs I Popov  1-0522004Aeroflot OpenB12 Caro-Kann Defense
5. N Kosintseva vs I Popov  0-1402004Aeroflot OpenB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
6. V Sanduleac vs I Popov  1-0302004SCG-chT VojvodinaB53 Sicilian
7. I Popov vs E Alekseev  ½-½452005Russian Under-20 ChampionshipA45 Queen's Pawn Game
8. A Riazantsev vs I Popov  ½-½552005Russian Under-20 ChampionshipD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
9. I Popov vs S Novikov  ½-½472005Russian Under-20 ChampionshipC10 French
10. Tomashevsky vs I Popov  1-0312005Russian Under-20 ChampionshipA15 English
11. I Popov vs I Khairullin  1-0612005Russian Under-20 ChampionshipB45 Sicilian, Taimanov
12. I Popov vs A Timofeev  0-1452005Russian Under-20 ChampionshipB59 Sicilian, Boleslavsky Variation, 7.Nb3
13. I Kurnosov vs I Popov  1-0442005Russian Under-20 ChampionshipB47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation
14. I Popov vs O Nikolenko  ½-½192006OpenA45 Queen's Pawn Game
15. I Smikovski vs I Popov  1-0582006OpenB46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation
16. V Belov vs I Popov  ½-½772006OpenD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
17. I Popov vs A Kornev  0-1372006Moscow opB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
18. I Popov vs R Hovhannisyan  1-04720064th Young Stars of the WorldB30 Sicilian
19. A Volodin vs I Popov  0-14820064th Young Stars of the WorldD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
20. I Popov vs A Kulikov 1-02320064th Young Stars of the WorldA45 Queen's Pawn Game
21. I Popov vs E Tairova 1-02220064th Young Stars of the WorldD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
22. S Narayanan vs I Popov  ½-½6020064th Young Stars of the WorldB46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation
23. I Popov vs V Onyshchuk  1-05720064th Young Stars of the WorldA45 Queen's Pawn Game
24. Caruana vs I Popov  1-02920064th Young Stars of the WorldB46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation
25. I Popov vs E Safarli  1-05420064th Young Stars of the WorldB30 Sicilian
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Kibitzer's Corner
May-21-06  Whitehat1963: How old is this young star?
May-21-06  notyetagm: I was going to ask this same question.
May-21-06  jperr75108: Hes sixteen. His FIDE information is at this link: http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.ph...
Jun-10-07  argishti: current rating 2249? this needs to be updated.
Jun-10-07  Karpova: They took the current rating of Ivan Popov from Serbia (Birthyear 1963) but this is IM Ivan Popov from Russia (born in 1990) with a current rating of 2533
Aug-25-07  Karpova: He won the Vladimir Open 2007 with 8/10
http://www.vladchess.ru/tourstable/...
Oct-07-07  BIDMONFA: Ivan Popov

POPOV, Ivan
http://www.bidmonfa.com/popov_ivan....
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Mar-11-12  plimko: Ivan Popov is the top seeded player in Moscow chess championship 2012

Official site
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On 'Scacchi Internazionali'
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Mar-20-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: Happy 22nd!
Dec-25-15  sonia91: 2015 European Rapid Champion: http://www.chessdom.com/european-ra...
Mar-20-16  TheFocus: Happy birthday, Ivan Popov.
Aug-15-20  siggemannen: What's he doing these days?

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