Dmitry Kononenko
{{Short description|Ukrainian chess player}}
Dmitry Kononenko (born August 23, 1988){{Cite web|url=https://2700chess.com/players/kononenko|title=Live Chess Ratings - 2700chess.com|website=2700chess.com|access-date=2020-04-22}} is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster since 2007 and an international master since 2003. He is the 17th best player in Ukraine and the World's 217th player.{{Cite web|url=https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=14113007|title=Kononenko, Dmitry FIDE Chess Profile - Players Arbiters Trainers|website=ratings.fide.com|access-date=2020-04-22}} His highest rating was 2621 (in February 2016).{{Cite web|url=https://chess-db.com/public/pinfo.jsp?id=14113007|title=Dmitry Kononenko chess games and profile|last=|first=|date=|website=Chess DB|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310094420/http://chess-db.com/public/pinfo.jsp?id=14113007 |archive-date=2016-03-10 |access-date=}}
Career
In Ukrainian championships he won the
- U12 Champion of Ukraine in 1999.
- U16 Champion of Ukraine in 2003 and 2004.
- 3rd place in the U14 Championship of Ukraine in 2000.
- 3rd place in U18 Championship of Ukraine in 2005.
- 2008 championships of Ukraine - 5th place.
- His team won 2nd place in the Ukrainian team chess championship in 2009 and in 2010. He won 2 individual gold medals (2008, 2010) and a silver medal (2009) in this championship.{{Cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playersua/5z1x5rbh.html|title=OlimpBase :: Ukrainian Team Chess Championship :: Dmytro Kononenko|website=www.olimpbase.org|access-date=2020-04-22}}
In other tournaments he won the
- 2000 U12 European Championship - 4th place.
- Silver medal in the World Children's Olympics in Denizli (Turkey) as a member of the Ukrainian team in 2003.
- Champion of the Dnipropetrovsk region in 2003 and 2005- 2007 in classical chess and in 2010 and 2014 in blitz chess.
- In the first international festival "Dnepropetrovsk Autumn" in memory of A.S. Moroz (Dnepropetrovsk, 2012) took 2nd place, in 2013 he ranked 4th and won the blitz tournament.
- Winner of six consecutive blitz marathons of the Czech Open international festival in Czech Pardubice (2008-2013).{{Cite web|url=http://chess-news.ru/node/3338|title=Czech Open: главный турнир фестиваля выиграл Дмитрий Кононенко {{!}} chess-news.ru|website=chess-news.ru|access-date=2020-04-22}}{{Cite web|url=http://dneprchess.info/litsa-personalii/item/160-kononenko-dmitry|title=Кононенко Дмитрий Александрович|website=dneprchess.info|access-date=2020-04-22}}
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Category:Ukrainian chess players
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