IMArtur Frolov

Artur Frolov shared third place with Vladimir Kramnik in the 1990 Soviet under-twenty championship. He became an international master in 1991 and played in the final Soviet Championship that year. In 1993 he shared first place in the Mykolaiv Zonal and defeated Aleksej Aleksandrov in a playoff to qualify for the Biel Interzonal. He also won at Groningen in 1993 and helped Ukraine earn World Team Championship silver. At the 1994 Olympiad he scored an unbeaten 4½/7 as second reserve. Frolov represented Donbass Alchevsk in three European Club Cups during the 1990s. He put his playing career on hold in 1998 before returning to competition later.