The thirty year old Ian Nepomniachtchi (born on 14th July 2020) has just won the Candidates Tournament 2020/21.
So, in November, he will face the current world champion, the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, to gain the title of the best chess player in the world.
Here, we see a happy instantané, from 1998.
At the time, Ian Nepomniachtchi was just an 8-year old boy, who played a simultaneous exhibition by the world champion Anatoly Karpov (1975-85 and 1993-99).
Nepomniachtchi today
