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““Playing Tensor Chess is a gripping experience. It brings new, dramatically innovative but brilliantly logical tactical and strategic dimensions…”
Grandmaster Ruslan Ponomariev
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Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukraine, Grandmaster, FIDE World Champion in 2002 and 2003.
At the age of just twelve, he won the European Under-18 Championship, and the next year won the World-Under-18 Championship. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster at the age of fourteen in 1998, the youngest player at the time to have ever earned that title. He won a gold medal at the 2001 Chess Olympiad. In June 2011, he won the 80th Ukrainian Chess Championship, the strongest ever in the country, with 8½/11 and a rating performance of 2853.
At the age of just twelve, he won the European Under-18 Championship, and the next year won the World-Under-18 Championship. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster at the age of fourteen in 1998, the youngest player at the time to have ever earned that title. He won a gold medal at the 2001 Chess Olympiad. In June 2011, he won the 80th Ukrainian Chess Championship, the strongest ever in the country, with 8½/11 and a rating performance of 2853.
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