Vladislav Vladimirovich Kovalev (Russian: Владислав Владимирович Ковалёв; born 6 January 1994) is a Belarusian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster.
[9] He thus qualified for the 46th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting in July, where he placed third with a score of 4/7 (+1–0=6).
He scored 10/13 (+7–0=6) to take first place, one-and-a-half points ahead of Andrey Esipenko, Benjámin Gledura and Maksim Chigaev, who all tied for second.
[11] By winning the Challengers he qualified for the 2020 Tata Steel Masters tournament, in which he scored 4/13 (+1–6=6).
[12] As of September 2023,[update] Kovalev does not hold a national chess federation membership.