Stanislav Savchenko is a Ukrainian

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 grandmaster (1993). He took part in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002

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...

, but was knocked out in the first round by Francisco Vallejo Pons

Francisco Vallejo Pons

Francisco Vallejo Pons is a chess Grandmaster from Spain. He was a chess prodigy, achieving the grandmaster title at the age of 16 years and 9 months, which makes him the 20th youngest player to ever become a grandmaster...

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He played for Ukraine in the Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

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

Giorgi Bagaturov

Giorgi Bagaturov is a Georgian-Armenian chess grandmaster.He won the Georgian Chess Championship in 1989, 1995 and 1999 and played for Georgia in the Chess Olympiad of 1998....

 and Alexander Moroz

Alexander Moroz (chess player)

Alexander Moroz was a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster . He was vice-president of the Ukrainian chess federation, president of the chess federation of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and chairman of the youth committee of the Ukrainian chess federation as well as International Arbiter.His best single...

 in the Danko Chess Tournament in Yenakiieve

Yenakiieve

Yenakieve , is a city in the Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine and carries a special status within the region designated into a separate city rayon . The city is located on the Krynka River about from the oblast's administrative center, Donetsk.Yenakiieve is an important regional centre of coal...

. In 2006 he tied for first with Boris Chatalbashev in the 4th Georgiev-Kesarovski tournament. In 2007 he tied for first with Sergey Fedorchuk

Sergey Fedorchuk

Sergey Fedorchuk is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster .In 1995 he won European Youth Chess Championship . In 2006 he won at rapid tournament held in Banyoles and tied for 1st-3rd with Gabriel Sargissian and Tigran L. Petrosian in the 8th Dubai Open...

 in Bad Zwesten

Bad Zwesten

-Location:Bad Zwesten lies about 8 km southeast of Bad Wildungen on the river Schwalm, which belongs to the Eder watershed. North of the community begins the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park.-Constituent communities:* Betzigerode* Niederurff...

 Open.

On the May 2010 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2553.

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