Igor Kovalenko

Igor Viktorovich Kovalenko (Russian: Игорь Викторович Коваленко; Latvian: Igors Kovaļenko; born 29 December 1988, Novomoskovsk) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster now playing for Latvia.[1]

Igor Kovalenko
Igor Kovalenko, Trzcianka 2013
Full name	Igor Viktorovich Kovalenko
Country	Ukraine Latvia
Born	(1988-12-29) 29 December 1988 Novomoskovsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (2011)
FIDE rating	2643 (February 2021)
Peak rating	2702 (August 2015)

Kovalenko was awarded the titles of International Master (IM) in 2008 and Grandmaster (GM) in 2011. He won the Latvian Chess Championship in 2013[2] and 2014.[3] In 2016 Kovalenko was second in European Individual Chess Championship in Gjakova (Kosovo).[4] In 2019 he won Riga Technical University Open.[5]

Igor Kovalenko played for Latvia in Chess Olympiads:[6]

• In 2014, at second board in the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø (+5 −2 =4);
• In 2016, at second board in the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku (+6 −1 =4);
• In 2018, at first board in the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi (+6 −3 =0).[7]

Igor Kovalenko played for Latvia in European Team Chess Championship:[8]

• In 2015, at second board in Reykjavik (+3 −1 =3).