For the second time, GMNepomniac is trying to win the International Federation of chess worldwide, leaving only three tiers for the champion.

During last year’s Sinkfield Cup, Nicumbamnić, together with the GM Daniel “Danya” Narodiki of Chess.com, discussed his early international ches career, his international ches philosophy, his championship, his rival GM den, how, once GM calsen announced that he would not participate in the competition, what he had learned from the previous international ches world champions.

Below are text records, including short video excerpts.

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Daniel: In thank you very much for taking time to participate in our interviews in this very, busy competition. Let us start with basic knowledge. What is the time to learn from the chess of Enepomniachi? Who is your first coach? When do you realize that this is done seriously?

I wish to thank you, Sir, for your invitation to participate in this interview. First, I think my story is very regular. So when I was about four years old, I was introduced to some chess, but it was more like some soldiers. This is a rather unusual set of international chess. So I will play many different things, imagining some key chess.

At the same time, there is another set of analogous international chess, and I and my uncles play a great deal. I think I am going to be second-tier chess or even the first-level, which, in the words of the Soviet Union, is quite remarkable.

My uncle, a candidate at the university level, spent a considerable amount of leisure time to compete. Therefore, this is a common matter for the former Soviet Union and Russia. So, at some point, I think, “good, what you do here?”

This is the way I was introduced, and I think I was probably a four-and-a-half-year-old. Also later in that year, local international ches clubs were constantly moving here and there, essentially moving around our neighbourhoods. So, five minutes were walked.

Daniel: it is convenient.

Ian: Yes, very close. So they decided to give me to a number of international ches coaches, and I think it is also a candidate at the university level. He said, of course. Yes, that is why I went. I think I might then be five years old, perhaps slightly, and possibly nearly five years.

There, I met my first coach, the FFM Yvdki Myanmar, who is an unbelievable good, especially for children. This is the prescription of the doctor. I think this is a great asset in my life. The first coach is very important. It is a person who really leads you into the world of international chess. I think that he will go to us not only at the international chess club, but also at us.

Daniel: He became my friend.

Ian, of course, a friend and coach, and I would like to say that a few years later he has done something that I do not know how many. When he felt that he could not really help others, as he had in the past, he spoke with the international master, Zirberstan, who was two Russian champions during the Soviet period and perhaps he was interested in working with me. I believe that this is a great milestone, and I would say that it is quite impressive. Since I usually feel that this or more or less is the mindset of my own students, no one will be allowed to take your name.

Denia: How do you describe your style when young? Do you have an incredible tactical nature? Do you begin to show some signs of style, which continue to be demonstrated when you become the stewards of superdivisions and world champions?

Ian: this is a good problem. When I am still a very small child, I have reintroduced many chess. I come from a teacher’s family, and we have an alarming library. Part of this is our many international chess. A number of very good books, such as the Nimzović System, are well known. There are also competitions that I think are among the most well known, such as those of GM Bronstein [eds.: Zurich, 1953]. There are other world champions who are best placed. So I have been trying to ches, and I think I have never really tried to know what has happened. I just like to see the chess.

In addition, I would like to have some ideal situations. Thus, for example, I have been as many as possible from the white side. In essence, I am setting up a3, b4, c5, d5, e5, f5, g4, h3. You know, like c4, f4, Mad4, Mae4.

Bhutan: ideal structure.

Ian: ideal structure. There is a model of what I wanted to achieve in the real opposite. I cannot say that this is the way I learn or understand some of the international chess of harmony, but it has emerged from the beginning. I would like to bleak structures, all protected, all linked and all coordinated.

That is why I spent a considerable amount of time. So perhaps this early love for the harmony of international chess, I am confident that it remains with me. That is what I am still trying — perhaps not successful (smile) — and is still trying to achieve in my counterpart.

But I also want to say that you should always adapt your style to a more modern era, so you should sometimes adjust your openings. At the beginning of some, their first opening was a classic opening, saying:

At the beginning of their studies, they began to learn from either chewing or wing abandoned soldiers or Spain. But for me. I think my first opening is Carola-can, because I was essentially the opening that I displayed to me in accordance with my first coach, and then I suddenly turned into a ches of the Scandinavian defence.

Bhutan: Brunei.

Ian: Yes. In addition, I have my own research on Axin. This is a good time, all of which are well used in a number of children’s champions, and I want to say that even now they are not so bad. But for good results to be achieved, you should insist on some more chess, such as chewings or Russian defences.

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