Facts: - title: grandmaster -lrb- 2011 -rrb- - caption: igor kovalenko , trzcianka 2013 - fideid: 14117908 - country: latvia - peakrating: 2665 -lrb- april 2015 -rrb- - birth date: 29 december 1988 - name: igor kovalenko - birthname: igor victorovich kovalenko - image: igor kovalenko 2013.jpg - birth place: novomoskovsk , dnipropetrovsk oblast , ukraine Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of igor kovalenko .
igor kovalenko -lrb- ; ; born december 29 , 1988 , novomoskovsk , ukraine -rrb- is a ukrainian chess grandmaster now playing for latvia .kovalenko is a chess international master -lrb- 2008 -rrb- and grandmaster -lrb- 2011 -rrb- .he won the latvian chess championship in 2013 and 2014 .igor kovalenko played for latvia in chess olympiads : in 2014 , at second board in the 41st chess olympiad in troms -lrb- +5 2 = 4 -rrb- .