Ruslan Ponomariov

Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukrainian Руслан Пономарьов, scientific transliteration Ruslan Ponomar'ov; Russian Руслан Олегович Пономарёв / Ruslan Ponomariov Olegovich; born October 11, 1983 in Horlivka, Donetsk Oblast ) is a Ukrainian chess player.

Life

In 1994 he finished fourth in the U12 rapid chess championship in Paris. He was at the age of twelve European Champion Junior under 18, the following year he became Junior World Champion in 1996. In 1998 he was appointed at the time youngest grandmaster.

In 2002, he won the title of FIDE World Champion. As part of efforts to unite the two 1993-2006 competing world title again, Ponomariov 2003 should play a match against Garry Kasparov, but did not materialize because Ponormarjow did not accept the contracts and demanded changes.

In the World Chess Cup 2005 in Khanty- Mansiysk, Ponomariov won second place. In the discharged with 128 participants knockout tournament, he defeated Levon Aronian in the final of the Armenians after a tie-break in rapid chess. With this result Ponomariov qualified for the Candidates Tournament in 2007 in Elista, where he failed in the first round, in a duel over six games, to the Russians Sergei Rubljowski with 2,5:3,5 ( 0, -1, = 5 ). In the World Chess Cup 2009, he could advance to the final, but was defeated there by tag battle against Boris Gelfand.

On July 25, 2010, he won the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, a tournament of category 20, with 6.5 points ahead of Lê Quang Liem with 5.5 points, Vladimir Kramnik and Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov with 5 points from ten games. His win against Kramnik in this tournament was voted the best in Volume 109 of Chess Informant. In October 2010, Ponomariov with Ukraine, for which he played on board 2, was winner of the Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk. In June 2011, he won in Kiev with 8.5 points from eleven games, the national championship of Ukraine.

His best world ranking was 6th place from April to September 2002 April to June 2006.