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Dmitry Kononenko

Ukrainian chess player (born 1988)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ4231065
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Dmitry Oleksandrovich Kononenko (Ukrainian: Дмитр́о Олекс́андрович Конон́енко; born August 23, 1988) 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. His highest rating was 2621 (in February 2016). He is also a Four-player chess theorist, inventing commonly played opening lines.

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.

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The public source identifies “Dmitry Kononenko” as ukrainian chess player (born 1988). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dmitry, Kononenko and Ukrainian.

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This entry incorporates text from Dmitry Kononenko” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.