Igor Kovalenko

Kovalenko was awarded the titles of International Master (IM) in 2008 and Grandmaster (GM) in 2011. He won the Latvian Chess Championship in 2013^[3] and 2014.^[4] In 2016, Kovalenko came second in the European Individual Chess Championship in Gjakova (Kosovo).^[5] In 2019, he won the Riga Technical University Open.^[6]

Igor Kovalenko played for Latvia in Chess Olympiads:^[7]

• in 2014, at the second board in the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø (+5 −2 =4),
• in 2016, at the second board in the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku (+6 −1 =4),
• in 2018, at the first board in the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi (+6 −3 =0).^[8]

Igor Kovalenko played for Latvia in the European Team Chess Championship:^[9]

• in 2015, at the second board in Reykjavík (+3 −1 =3).

Igor Kovalenko played for Ukraine in the European Team Chess Championship:

• in 2025, at the fourth board in Batumi (+5 −0 =3). He became European champion as a member of the Ukrainian national team (open section), and achieved first place among the players on the fourth board.^[10]

• Igor Kovalenko rating card at FIDE
• Igor Kovalenko player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Igor Kovalenko chess games at 365Chess.com
• Igor Kovalenko chess games at ChessTempo.com