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Encyclopedia > Ruslan Ponomariov
Ruslan Ponomariov
Full name Руслан Пономарьов
Country Flag of Ukraine Ukraine
Born October 11, 1983 (1983-10-11) (age 23)
Horlivka, Ukraine
Title Grandmaster
World Champion 2002–2004 (FIDE)
FIDE rating 2706
(No. 20 on the July 2007 FIDE ratings list)
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. On the April 2007 FIDE Elo rating list Ponomariov had a rating of 2706, making him number twenty in the world and the Ukrainian number two, behind Vassily Ivanchuk. His highest ever rating was 2743 on the April 2002 FIDE list. Image File history File links Flag_of_Ukraine. ... October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Horlivka or Gorlovka (Горлівка) is a city in the Donets Basin in Ukraine, with a population of 292,000 (2001 census). ... The title International Grandmaster is awarded to superb chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. It is a lifetime title, in chess literature usually abbreviated as GM or IGM (this is in contrast to WGM for Woman Grandmaster and IM for International Master). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Chess Go The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ... Chess Go The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ... October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players. ... The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ... This article or section needs additional references or sources to improve its verifiability. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 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 (Васи́лий Ива́нчук), born March 18, 1969 in Berejiany, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. ...


Ponomariov was born in Horlivka in Ukraine. 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. Horlivka or Gorlovka (Горлівка) is a city in the Donets Basin in Ukraine, with a population of 292,000 (2001 census). ... The title Grandmaster is awarded to world-class chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. ...


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 7.5/9 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. Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman (born January 18, 1966, in Leningrad) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former world champion. ... The Chess Olympiad is a chess event which has been officially organised by FIDE since 1927 and takes place in even years. ...


In 2002 he beat his fellow countryman Vassily Ivanchuk in the final of the FIDE Knock-Out World Championship by a score of 4.5-2.5 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. 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 5.5/12. Vassily Ivanchuk (Васи́лий Ива́нчук), born March 18, 1969 in Berejiany, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. ... The FIDE World Chess Championships 1998-2004 all followed a similar format, radically different from previous World Chess Championship events. ... 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, Spain, in which it is held. ... Garry Kimovich Kasparov (IPA: ; Russian: ) (born April 13, 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) (now Azerbaijan) is a Russian chess grandmaster, and former World Chess Champion. ... The Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijkin the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. ... The ELO rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ...


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 (since 1993 up to 2006 there have been two world chess championships). However, this was called off after Ponomariov refused to sign his contract without reservation. He remained FIDE champion until Rustam Kasimdzhanov won the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004. Yalta (Ukrainian: , Russian: , Crimean Tatar: ) is a city in Crimea, southern Ukraine, on the north coast of the Black Sea. ... Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Russian: ) (born June 25, 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the current undisputed World Chess Champion. ... Péter Lékó Péter Lékó (b. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... (Rustam Qosimjonov in Uzbek, Рустам Касымджанов in Russian born December 5, 1979) is a chess grandmaster from Uzbekistan. ... The FIDE World Chess Championship, 2004 was held at the Almahary Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, from June 18 to July 13. ...


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. This happened in round one of the European Team Championship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, when Ponomariov was playing black against Swedish GM Evgenij Agrest. October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Plovdiv (Bulgarian: ) is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia, with a population of 341,873([1]). It is the administrative centre of Plovdiv Province in southern Bulgaria, as well as the largest and most important city of the historical region of Upper (or Northern) Thrace, famous for its...


In his games with white, Ponomariov has almost always played 1. e4 (see algebraic notation and chess opening), entering the main lines of the Ruy Lopez and Sicilian Defence. 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. Earlier in his career he experimented with the Benko Gambit and Pirc Defence, but as of 2003 these have fallen out of his repertoire. Algebraic chess notation is the method used today by all competition chess organizations and most books, magazines, and newspapers to record and describe the play of chess games. ... A chess opening is the group of initial moves of a chess game (the opening moves). ... The Ruy Lopez, generally called the Spanish Game outside of English speaking countries, is a chess opening characterised by the moves (in algebraic notation): 1. ... This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. ... The Queens Gambit Accepted, commonly abbreviated to QGA, is a chess opening characterized by the opening moves 1. ... The Queens Indian Defense is a chess opening defined by the moves 1. ... The Kings Indian Defence is a chess opening that begins 1. ... The chess opening characterised by the moves 1. ... The Pirc Defence, sometimes known as the Ufimtsev Defence, is a chess opening characterised by Black responding to 1. ...


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. He was eliminated in the first round, losing 3.5-2.5 to Sergei Rublevsky. Veselin Topalov The FIDE World Chess Championship 2007 will be an eight-player double round-robin tournament. ... Sergei Rublevsky (b. ...


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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A kid turns conqueror (1475 words)
RUSLAN PONOMARIOV of Ukraine became the youngest world chess champion when he won the title in a historic match against fellow countryman Vassily Ivanchuk with a game to spare at 4.5-2.5 on January 23.
Ponomariov, born on October 11, 1983, hails from a remote Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk, while his opponent Ivanchuk is from Lvov, the second biggest city and one with a lot of chess tradition like Chennai in India.
Ponomariov showed greater determination and maintained his playing level throughout and was not flagging on any count, especially in the endgames which required speedy skills.
rediff.com sports: Anand loses third game against Ponomariov (509 words)
Ponomariov opened with the king pawn in the third game and, quite surprisingly, Anand opted for the sharp Sicilian Sveshnikov defence that is in vogue these days.
Ponomariov gained the upper hand after Anand went for a dubious strategic plan that allowed the Ukrainian's knight to make a foray to the sixth rank, well aided by a central pawn.
Ponomariov on the other hand had his task cut out on the queenside and he got his fair share of counter play amidst a wave of attack against his king.
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