In 2000 he won with the Ukrainian team a gold medal in the
34th Chess Olympiad in
Istanbul. He was a member of the
gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 2001
World Team Chess Championship. He won the
Ukrainian Chess Championship twice, in 1997 and 1998. Among other victories, he won the Dutch Open Blitz chess Championship (2005), the Essent Open (2005) and the 7th Memorial Narciso Yepes (2006). He tied for first with
Sergey Zagrebelny,
Aleksander Delchev and
Adam Horvath in
Balaguer 2005. In 2011, he tied for 1st-6th with
Ivan Sokolov,
Yuriy Kuzubov,
Kamil Miton,
Jon Ludvig Hammer and
Illia Nyzhnyk in the MP
Reykjavik Open. ==Notable games==