Ruslan Ponomariov Руслан Пономарьов | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Ruslan Olehovych Ponomariov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Horlivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | 11 October 1983|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title | Grandmaster (1998) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Champion | 2002–2004 (FIDE) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIDE rating | 2655 (October 2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peak rating | 2764 (July 2011) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ranking | No. 71 (October 2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peak ranking | No. 6 (April 2002) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ruslan Olehovych Ponomariov (Ukrainian: Русла́н Оле́гович Пономарьо́в; born 11 October 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was FIDE World Chess Champion from 2002 to 2004. He won the Ukrainian Chess Championship in 2011.
He was runner-up in the Chess World Cup 2005 and Chess World Cup 2009, while reaching the semi-finals in 2011 and the quarterfinals in 2007.