Artemiev started playing chess at the age of seven. He won the bronze medal in the Under 14 division of the
European Youth Chess Championships in 2011. He won twice the World's Youth Stars - Vanya Somov Memorial, a
round-robin tournament for juniors in
Kirishi, in 2012 and 2013. In 2013, he also won the Russian Junior Championship. Artemiev played for the Russian team at the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiads of 2012 and 2013. At the 2012 event, he helped his team to win the gold medal and also won the individual silver medal for his performance on board three. In the following year, he won the team silver In 2014 he won the
Andranik Margaryan Memorial in
Armenia and the Moscow Open F Group (Student Grandmaster Cup), a
category 12 round-robin tournament, with a score of 8/9 points (+7–0=2) for a of 2869. In March 2015, Artemiev won the 9th
Georgy Agzamov Memorial in
Tashkent on tiebreak over
Vladislav Tkachiev. In July 2015, he won the Russian Championship Higher League and as a result qualified for the
Russian Championship Superfinal. In this latter event he scored 5½/11 points. He also competed in the
Chess World Cup 2015, where he defeated
Surya Shekhar Ganguly in the first round before being eliminated in the second by
Radosław Wojtaszek. In 2016, Artemiev shared first place with
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, finishing second on tiebreak, in the Lake Sevan tournament in
Martuni, Armenia, and finished runner-up in the
World Junior Chess Championship. In October 2016, he won the Russian
Blitz Chess Championship with a score of 18/22, two-and-a-half points ahead of his closest followers,
Dmitry Andreikin and
Alexander Morozevich. In September 2017, Artemiev competed in the
Chess World Cup 2017. He defeated
Benjamin Bok and
Teimour Radjabov in rounds one and two, respectively, then was knocked out by
Daniil Dubov in the third round. In October, Artemiev won the Russian Blitz Championship again with 15½/20 points. In December 2017, he won the gold medal in the men's blitz chess event of the
IMSA Elite Mind Games in
Huai'an, China ahead of
Ding Liren,
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov,
Dmitry Andreikin and beating
Alexander Grischuk on better tiebreaks with a 16/22 score. In February 2018, he participated in the
Aeroflot Open. He finished sixth out of ninety-two, scoring 6/9 (+4–1=4), thus becoming a 2700+ rated player for the first time in his career. In December, he won the European Blitz Championship in
Skopje with a score of 18½/22 points, one-and-a-half points ahead of runner-up
Ivan Cheparinov. In October 2018, He won both Russian Blitz Championship as well as the Russian Rapid Championship. Artemiev won the
Gibraltar Masters in January 2019, taking clear first with 8½/10 (+7–0=3) with a performance rating of 2941 defeating
Hikaru Nakamura,
Yu Yangyi and
David Navara. He represented Russia at the 2019
World Team Chess Championship in March, scoring 6½/8 (+5–0=3) with a 2839 performance rating as Russia won gold. His performance led to
Alexander Grischuk stating that he may be the successor of the recently retired
Vladimir Kramnik in the Russian team. Later in the same month, Artemiev won the
European Individual Championship in Skopje edging out
Nils Grandelius on tiebreak, after both players scored 8½/11 points. In July, he won the 20th International Karpov Tournament ahead of
Wang Hao and
Dmitry Jakovenko. He also scored 14/21 in
World Blitz Chess Championship 2021 finishing one point behind the leader. In 2022, Artemiev won the Moscow Open with a score 7.5 out of 9 on better tie breaks, and finished at 6.5/9 alongside
Sanan Sjugirov in Russian Higher League, taking silver on tie breaks. In October 2022, he won the Russian Rapid Championship with a 9.5/11 score. The following year, in August 2024, he successfully defended his title by winning the 77th Russian Championship. He placed shared second in the
World Rapid Chess Championship 2025 (along with
Arjun Erigaisi,
Hans Niemann, and
Leinier Dominguez-Perez) with a score of 9.5/13, winning the silver medal on tiebreaks. ==Notable games==