This made him eligible to participate in the World Youth Chess Championship (U10 section), which took place in Greece.

[2] In August 2012, he won the World Junior Chess Championship in Athens ahead of Ding Liren, Richárd Rapport, Yu Yangyi and Wei Yi.

[8] In March 2015, he finished 7th at the European Individual Chess Championship and as a result qualified for the FIDE World Cup in Baku.

In September 2016, at the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku, Ipatov helped the Turkish team to finish sixth, Turkey's highest rank ever in a Chess Olympiad, by defeating the Georgian Grandmaster Mikheil Mchedlishvili in the last round, when the score in the match was 1.5-1.5.

[9] Ipatov attained his bachelor's degree from the National University “Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy of Ukraine” in Kharkov in 2014.