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| Ruslan Ponomariov | ||
| Full name | Руслан Пономарьов | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
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| Born | October 11, 1983 Horlivka, Soviet Union |
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| Title | Grandmaster | |
| World Champion | 2002–2004 (FIDE) | |
| FIDE rating | 2719 (No. Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. Events 1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria. 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Horlivka, also spelled as Gorlovka (Горлівка Горловка is a City in the Donetsk Oblast ( province) of eastern Ukraine The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. See also Development of the World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the Board game Chess Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Chess federations around the The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go. 17 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list) |
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| Peak rating | 2743 (April 2002) | |
Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukrainian: Руслан Пономарьов; Russian: Русла́н Пономарёв) (born October 11, 1983) is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE world champion. The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go. Ukrainian (in Ukrainian украї́нська мо́ва ukrayins'ka mova,) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Events 1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria. 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Chess federations around the
On the January 2008 FIDE Elo rating list Ponomariov had a rating of 2719, making him number eighteen in the world and the Ukrainian number three, behind Vassily Ivanchuk and Sergey Karjakin. Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Chess federations around the The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go. Vassily Ivanchuk, also transliterated as Vasyl (Василь Михайлович Іванчук, Vasyl Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk) (born March 18 1969 Sergey Karjakin (Сергій Карякін Сергей Карякин born January 12, 1990 in Simferopol) is a Ukrainian Chess His highest rating ever was 2743 on the April 2002 FIDE list.
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Early career
Ponomariov was born in Horlivka in Ukraine to parents of Russian ethnicity. Horlivka, also spelled as Gorlovka (Горлівка Горловка is a City in the Donetsk Oblast ( province) of eastern Ukraine Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. The Russian people (Русские— Russkie) are an East Slavic Ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries In 1994 he placed third in the World Under-12 Championship at the age of ten, and the following year won it at the age of eleven. In 1996 he won the European Under-18 Championship at the age of just twelve, and the following year won the World Under-18 Championship. In 1998, at the age of fourteen, he was awarded the Grandmaster title, making him the youngest ever player at that time to hold the title. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE.
Among Ponomariov's notable later results are first at the Donetsk Zonal in 1998, 5/7 in the European Club Cup 2000 (including a victory over then-FIDE World Champion Alexander Khalifman), joint first with 7. Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman (born January 18, 1966, in Leningrad) is a Jewish Russian Chess Grandmaster and former FIDE 5/9 at Torshavn 2000, 8. 5/11 for Ukraine in the 2001 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, winning gold medal on board 2, and first place with 7/10 in the 2001 Governor's Cup in Kramatorsk. The Chess Olympiad is a Biennial Chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other
World Champion
In 2002 he beat his fellow countryman Vassily Ivanchuk in the final of the FIDE Knock-Out World Championship by a score of 4. Vassily Ivanchuk, also transliterated as Vasyl (Василь Михайлович Іванчук, Vasyl Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk) (born March 18 1969 The FIDE World Chess Championships 1998-2004 all followed a similar format radically different from previous World Chess Championship events 5-2. 5 to become FIDE world champion at the age of eighteen, the first teenager to ever become world champion.
In the same year he finished second in the very strong Linares tournament behind Garry Kasparov. The annual Linares chess tournament, usually played around the end of February takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia Garry Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров) (born as Garry Kimovich Weinstein on April 13 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet His result in the strong 2003 Corus tournament at Wijk aan Zee was less good - despite having the third highest Elo rating, he finished only join eleventh out of fourteen players with 6/13, and at Linares the same year he finished only fifth out of seven with 5. The Corus chess tournament takes place every year usually in January in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go. 5/12.
There were plans for him to play a fourteen game match against Kasparov in Yalta in September 2003, the winner of which would go on to play the winner of a match between Vladimir Kramnik and Péter Lékó as part of the so-called "Prague Agreement" to reunify the World Chess Championship (from 1993 until 2006 there were two world chess championships). Yalta (Ялта Yalta is a city in Crimea, southern Ukraine, on the north coast of the Black Sea. Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник (born June 25, 1975) is a Russian Chess grandmaster Péter Lékó (Петер Леко (born September 8, 1979 in Subotica, Yugoslavia) is a Hungarian Chess player See also Development of the World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the Board game Chess However, this was called off after Ponomariov refused to sign his contract without reservation.
Ponomariov remained FIDE champion until Rustam Kasimdzhanov won the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004. Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Rustam Qosimjonov Рустам Касымджанов (born December 5 1979) is an Uzbekistani Chess Grandmaster The FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 was held at the Almahary Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, from June 18 to July 13.
Post-championship career
On Ponomariov's 20th birthday, October 11, 2003, he became the first high-profile player to default a game because of his mobile phone ringing during play. Events 1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria. 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. This happened in round one of the European Team Championship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, when Ponomariov was playing black against Swedish GM Evgenij Agrest. The state of Bulgaria (България transliterated bg-Latn ''Balgaria'' The country preserves the traditions (in ethnic name language and alphabet of the First Bulgarian "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Evgeny Agrest (born 15 August 1966, Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Belarusian–Swedish Chess grandmaster.
He finished in the top 10 in the 2005 FIDE World Cup, which qualified him for the Candidates for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007, being played in May-June 2007. The World Chess Championship 2007 was held in Mexico City, from September 12 2007 to September He was eliminated in the first round, losing 3. 5-2. 5 to Sergei Rublevsky. Sergei Rublevsky (born 15 October 1974) is a Russian Chess grandmaster.
Playing style
In his games with white, Ponomariov has almost always played 1. e4 (see chess opening), entering the main lines of the Ruy Lopez and Sicilian Defence. In Chess the word " opening " has two common meanings both of which are discussed in this article The Ruy Lopez, called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game outside English speaking countries, is a Chess opening characterised by the moves The Sicilian Defence is a Chess opening that begins with the moves 1 With black, he has played the Sicilian against 1. e4 and also replied 1. . . e5, going into the Ruy Lopez. Against 1. d4 he has adopted a variety of defences, including the Queen's Gambit Accepted, the Queen's Indian Defence and the King's Indian Defence. The Queen's Gambit Accepted, commonly abbreviated to QGA, is a Chess opening characterized by the opening moves 1 "qid" redirects here For the medical abbreviation see List of medical abbreviations#Q. The King's Indian Defence is a common Chess opening. It arises after the moves 1 Earlier in his career he experimented with the Benko Gambit and Pirc Defence, but as of 2003 these have fallen out of his repertoire. The Benko Gambit is a Chess opening characterised by the move 3 The Pirc Defence, sometimes known as the Ufimtsev Defence or Yugoslav Defence, is a Chess opening characterised by Black responding to 1
External links
- FIDE rating card for Ruslan Ponomariov
- Ruslan Ponomariov at ChessGames.com
- Links to many articles about Ponomariov
| Preceded by Viswanathan Anand |
FIDE World Chess Champion 2002–2004 |
Succeeded by Rustam Kasimdzhanov |
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