Stanislav Savchenko (born 21 January 1967) is a

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

grandmaster (1993). He took part in the

FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 The FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 was held in Moscow, Russia. The first six rounds were played between 27 November and 14 December 2001, and the final match started on 16 January and ended on 23 January 2002. The Ukrainian Grandmaster Rusla ...

, but was knocked out in the first round by

Francisco Vallejo Pons Francisco Vallejo, son of Ángel R. Vallejo Jiménez, military academy graduate in Law, and Felicidad Pons Gomila. He was born in Mahón, where the main hospital on the island of Menorca was located, but he has never lived there, but rather in E ...

. He played for Ukraine in the

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s of 1996 and 1998. In 1997 he tied for first through third place with

Giorgi Bagaturov Giorgi Bagaturov (born November 28, 1964) is a Georgian-Armenian chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Georgian Chess Champion and won the World Senior Championship's over-50 section in 2016. Chess career In 1997, Bagaturov tied for first thro ...

and Alexander Moroz in the Danko Chess Tournament in

Yenakiieve Yenakiieve ( uk, Єна́кієве, ''Yenákiieve'', ; russian: Ена́киево, ''Yenákiyevo'') is a city in the Donetsk Oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine. It is incorporated as a city of oblast significance (a special status within t ...

. In 2006 he tied for first with

Boris Chatalbashev Boris Chatalbashev ( bg, Борис Чаталбашев; born 30 January 1974) is a Bulgarian and Danish chess Grandmaster (GM) (1997), four-times Bulgarian Chess Championship winner (1991, 1998, 2007, 2010). He won the Danish championship in 2 ...

in the 4th Georgiev-Kesarovski tournament. In 2007 he tied for first with

Sergey Fedorchuk Sergey Fedorchuk ( ua, Сергій Федорчук, translit=Serhiy Fedorchuk; born 14 March 1981) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002. Career In 1995 Fedorchuk won the European Youth Chess ...

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Open. On the May 2010

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list his

Elo rating The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor. The Elo system was invented as an improved ch ...

is 2553.

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* 1967 births Living people Chess grandmasters Ukrainian chess players {{Ukraine-chess-bio-stub