FIDE Men's Zonal Tournament
Zone 1.9 - Ukraine
DONETSK
2-13 November 1998
Main sponsor joint-stock company DANKO

11 rounds, 32 players, 20 GMs - all Ukrainain best players with exception of Ivanchuk, Eingorn and Timoshenko. Unexpected results of the strongest chess tournament in Ukrainian history...

First place for
Ruslan Ponomariov(!)...

second place
for Alexander Zubarev (!!)

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Name

Country

Elo

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

Points

Place

1

Ponomariov, Ruslan

g

UKR

2585

+31

+12

+ 5

= 2

+14

-16

=15

= 4

=10

+ 3

= 6

7.5

1

2

Zubarev, Alexander

UKR

2440

= 9

+ 4

+ 7

= 1

=16

+10

- 5

+15

- 3

+14

=11

7.0

2-5

3

Onischuk, Alexander

g

UKR

2630

= 6

+26

-14

=17

=15

=19

+13

+16

+ 2

- 1

+ 4

7.0

2-5

4

Shneider, Aleksandr

g

UKR

2540

=21

- 2

+19

+28

= 9

+14

+16

= 1

= 5

+10

- 3

7.0

2-5

5

Novikov, Igor A

g

UKR

2545

+19

=14

- 1

+27

=24

+29

+ 2

= 9

= 4

=11

=10

7.0

2-5

6

Neverov, Valeriy

g

UKR

2515

= 3

= 7

=23

=18

+ 8

- 9

=14

=13

+19

+15

= 1

6.5

6-8

7

Romanishin, Oleg M

g

UKR

2600

=30

= 6

- 2

=25

=21

+20

=26

=11

+17

=12

+16

6.5

6-8

8

Kruppa, Yuri

g

UKR

2570

=20

=22

=30

=26

- 6

+21

=17

-12

+31

+24

+14

6.5

6-8

9

Savchenko, Stanislav

g

UKR

2555

= 2

=20

=22

+21

= 4

+ 6

=11

= 5

-14

=16

=12

6.0

9-13

10

Komarov, Dimitri

g

UKR

2570

=27

=25

=15

=11

+20

- 2

+28

+18

= 1

- 4

= 5

6.0

9-13

11

Maksimenko, Andrei

g

UKR

2500

-14

=19

+32

=10

=26

+22

= 9

= 7

=15

= 5

= 2

6.0

9-13

12

Golubev, Mihail

g

UKR

2515

+32

- 1

=21

-15

+27

=18

=23

+ 8

=16

= 7

= 9

6.0

9-13

13

Brodsky, Michail

g

UKR

2525

=28

=21

-20

=22

=25

+30

- 3

= 6

=29

+26

+23

6.0

9-13

14

Tukmakov, Vladimir B

g

UKR

2605

+11

= 5

+ 3

=24

- 1

- 4

= 6

+26

+ 9

- 2

- 8

5.5

14-19

15

Sulypa, Alexandre

m

UKR

2415

=17

=16

=10

+12

= 3

+24

= 1

- 2

=11

- 6

=22

5.5

14-19

16

Kuzmin, Gennadi P

g

UKR

2560

=29

=15

+25

+20

= 2

+ 1

- 4

- 3

=12

= 9

- 7

5.5

14-19

17

Zontakh, Andrey

g

UKR

2540

=15

=29

=27

= 3

=18

=23

= 8

=19

- 7

=21

+31

5.5

14-19

18

Lerner, Konstantin Z

g

UKR

2580

=22

=30

=26

= 6

=17

=12

+29

-10

=24

=23

=19

5.5

14-19

19

Malakhatko, Vadim

m

UKR

2435

- 5

=11

- 4

+32

+31

= 3

=24

=17

- 6

+22

=18

5.5

14-19

20

Miroshnichenko, Evgenij

UKR

2440

= 8

= 9

+13

-16

-10

- 7

+25

=28

=23

=31

=21

5.0

20-25

21

Nosenko, Alexander

UKR

2425

= 4

=13

=12

- 9

= 7

- 8

+32

=22

=26

=17

=20

5.0

20-25

22

Milov, Leonid

m

UKR

2490

=18

= 8

= 9

=13

=23

-11

=30

=21

+28

-19

=15

5.0

20-25

23

Baklan, Vladimir

m

UKR

2585

-26

+28

= 6

=30

=22

=17

=12

=24

=20

=18

-13

5.0

20-25

24

Malaniuk, Vladimir P

g

UKR

2590

=25

=27

+29

=14

= 5

-15

=19

=23

=18

- 8

=28

5.0

20-25

25

Ovsejevitsch, Sergei

m

UKR

2500

=24

=10

-16

= 7

=13

-31

-20

+32

=27

=30

+29

5.0

20-25

26

Berelovich, Aleksandar

g

UKR

2495

+23

- 3

=18

= 8

=11

=28

= 7

-14

=21

-13

=32

4.5

26-28

27

Moroz, Alexander

m

UKR

2490

=10

=24

=17

- 5

-12

-32

=31

+29

=25

=28

=30

4.5

26-28

28

Kopylov, Mihail

UKR

2385

=13

-23

+31

- 4

+32

=26

-10

=20

-22

=27

=24

4.5

26-28

29

Berezin, Oleg

m

UKR

2455

=16

=17

-24

+31

+30

- 5

-18

-27

=13

=32

-25

4.0

29

30

Moskalenko, Viktor

g

UKR

2500

= 7

=18

= 8

=23

-29

-13

=22

-31

-32

=25

=27

3.5

30-32

31

Mikhaletz, Lubomir

m

UKR

2495

- 1

=32

-28

-29

-19

+25

=27

+30

- 8

=20

-17

3.5

30-32

32

Nechaev, Andrei

UKR

2330

-12

=31

-11

-19

-28

+27

-21

-25

+30

=29

=26

3.5

30-32