#The Kings: Post 3 - Ian Nepomniachtchi, Wei Yi and Vishwanathan Anand

Ian Nepomniachtchi

GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, Nepo for short, is a Russian super grandmaster who won the Candidates Tournament twice to play for the world championship. After winning the 2020-21 Candidates Tournament, he challenged GM Magnus Carlsen for the 2021 World Championship and lost in 11 games. In 2024, he won the World Blitz Championship for the first time, sharing the title with Carlsen. A Chess.com member, Nepomniachtchi plays under the account lachesisq.
https://youtu.be/6gKGFZOTTlw Amazing Win at the Sinquefield Cup

Wei Yi

Chinese GM Wei Yi is an elite player and one of the greatest chess prodigies in history. At age 15, he broke GM Magnus Carlsen’s record for the youngest player to reach a rating of 2700, which Wei still holds. Two years prior, he became the fourth-youngest GM in history at the time (now the eighth-youngest GM ever). And from January 2015 to the end of his candidacy as a junior (in late 2019), Wei ranked first or second on FIDE’s list of the top-100 juniors.
Since February 2017, he has been ranked in the top 30 players in the world. In January 2024, he cracked the top ten for the first time after winning the Tata Steel Tournament.
He is an aggressive player, known for his tactical positions. Have a look at his top games at https://www.chess.com/players/wei-yi.

Vishwanathan Anand

The 15th undisputed chess champion was born on December 11, 1969, in Mayiladuthurai in Tamil Nadu, the southeasternmost state in India. Anand, noted for playing quickly early in his career, competed for the classical championship in 1995 and was FIDE champion from 2000-2002 before claiming the reunited title in 2007. He held that title for six years until 2013 and has also had a productive post-championship career at an age when many other top players have retired. He began playing at age 6, learning from his mother.
https://youtu.be/at1G0CEHHws

Conclusion and Announcement

I hope that you've been enriched, and will take some inspiration. My blogs are purely to help people be a better version of themselves in chess. An announcement I wanted to make before concluding this post was that after the Kings Edition, I'm planning to write a Queens Edition, featuring the iconic women of chess who are often forgotten (no offense). Anyways...
Ciao!
~ Enthusiast976