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Vassily Ivanchuk
Full name Vasyl Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk
Country Flag of Ukraine Ukraine
Born March 18, 1969 (1969-03-18) (age 39)
Berezhany, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2740
(No. Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. Events 37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius ' will and proclaims Caligula emperor Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Berezhany (Бережани Brzeżany is a City located in the Ternopil Oblast ( province) of western Ukraine. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Chess federations around the The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go. 11 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating 2787 (October 2007)

Vassily Ivanchuk, also transliterated as Vasyl (Ukrainian: Василь Михайлович Іванчук , Vasyl Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk) (born March 18, 1969), is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go. Ukrainian (in Ukrainian украї́нська мо́ва ukrayins'ka mova,) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. Events 37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius ' will and proclaims Caligula emperor Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Ivanchuk has an Elo rating of 2740 on the FIDE April 2008 rating list, making him number ten in the world and Ukraine's number one. The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go. Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Chess federations around the At his career peak, he has been rated as high as second, behind only Garry Kasparov. Garry Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров) (born as Garry Kimovich Weinstein on April 13 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet He played board one on the victorious Ukraine team at the 2004 Calvia Chess Olympiad. Calvià is a Municipality on the island of Majorca, which adjoins the suburbs of Palma, the capital of the Spanish autonomous community An Olympiad is a period of four years associated with the Olympic Games of Classical Greece. As of November 2007 he is the World Blitz Chess champion. Fast chess, also known as blitz chess, lightning chess, bullet chess and rapid chess, is a type of Chess game in which each side is

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Early years

Ivanchuk was born in Berezhany, Ukraine. Berezhany (Бережани Brzeżany is a City located in the Ternopil Oblast ( province) of western Ukraine. Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. He first achieved international notice by winning the 1988 New York Open with 7. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous 5/9, ahead of a field filled with Grandmasters. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. He tied for first place in the 1988 World Junior Chess Championship at Adelaide, but lost the title on tiebreak to Joel Lautier (http://www.chessmetrics.com, the Vassily Ivanchuk player file). The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 Chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition organized Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a Joël Lautier (born 12 April 1973) is a French Chess grandmaster. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1988. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE.

Reaches world elite

Ivanchuk reached chess world fame at the age of 21 when he won the Linares tournament in 1991. The annual Linares chess tournament, usually played around the end of February takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia Fourteen players participated, eight of them rated top-ten of the world, including World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, while the rest were all among the world's top 50 players. See also Development of the World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the Board game Chess Garry Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров) (born as Garry Kimovich Weinstein on April 13 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet It was a close call between Ivanchuk and Kasparov, but Ivanchuk won by half a point, and Ivanchuk defeated Kasparov in their individual game.

It was believed that Ivanchuk would become World Champion, but this has not yet happened, although he came close in 2002 when he reached the finals of the FIDE World Championship Knockout. Even though he has been consistently among the top 10 since 1989, ranked as high as number 2 on a few occasions, he has played poorly in matches which require a different approach than tournament play. Most chess fans blame this on his weak nerves and his tendency to blunder in critical positions.

Eccentric character

GM Ivanchuk
GM Ivanchuk

"Big Chucky", as Ivanchuk is called, has been described by Viswanathan Anand as the most eccentric player in the chess world. Viswanathan Anand (ʋiɕˈʋəˌnɑˌt̪ʰən ɑnˌənd̪ விசுவநாதன் ஆனந்த் (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian Anand, tongue-in-cheek, gave his view on Ivanchuk like this [1]:

He’s someone who is very intelligent . . . but you never know which mood he is going to be in. Some days he will treat you like his long-lost brother. The next day he ignores you completely.
The players have a word for him. They say he lives on 'Planet Ivanchuk'. (Laughs) . . . I have seen him totally drunk and singing Ukrainian poetry and then the next day I have seen him give an impressive talk.
For a while he was trying to learn Turkish. Don’t ask me why . . . Everyday is a surprise with him.

When he plays, Ivanchuk rarely looks at the board. Instead he stares at the ceiling and at the walls with a blank stare (although this is not uncommon with top players who calculate without looking at the board). His playing style is unpredictable and highly original, making him a threat to any chess player, although it sometimes also leads to quick losses.

Major titles

Major tournament wins include New York Open 1988, Corus 1996, Linares 1989, 1991 and 1995, Foros (Aerosvit) 2006 and 2007, Montreal International 2007. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The Corus chess tournament takes place every year usually in January in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North The annual Linares chess tournament, usually played around the end of February takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec Ivanchuk lost to compatriot Ruslan Ponomariov in the final match of the 2002 FIDE World Chess Championship. Ruslan Ponomariov (Руслан Пономарьов Русла́н Пономарёв (born October 11, 1983) is a Ukrainian Chess player See also Development of the World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the Board game Chess In 2004 he won the European Championship, and in 2006 he finished second in that Championship. The European Individual Chess Championship is a chess tournament organized by the European Chess Union. He won the 2005 Canadian Open Chess Championship at Edmonton (shared). The Canadian Open Chess Championship is Canada 's Open Chess championship first held in 1956 and held annually since 1973 usually in mid-summer Edmonton (ˈɛdmɨntɨn is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta. In November 2007, Ivanchuk won the World Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow beating classical chess World Champion Anand in the last decider game. Fast chess, also known as blitz chess, lightning chess, bullet chess and rapid chess, is a type of Chess game in which each side is Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of On May 18, 2008, he won the M-Tel Masters tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria with a score of 8/10 (six wins, four draws, and no losses). M-tel Masters is an annual super-GM Chess tournament held since 2005 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, sponsored Sofia (София ˈsɔfija is the Capital and largest city of the Republic of Bulgaria, with a population of 1395568 in the Capital Municipality The state of Bulgaria (България transliterated bg-Latn ''Balgaria'' The country preserves the traditions (in ethnic name language and alphabet of the First Bulgarian

Team chess standout

Ivanchuk has often been at his best in international team competitions. He has played in ten chess Olympiads, twice for the Soviet Union (1988 and 1990), and eight times for Ukraine, after the Soviet Union split up in 1991. An Olympiad is a period of four years associated with the Olympic Games of Classical Greece. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 He has won a total of ten medals, and has been on three gold-medal winning teams (USSR in 1988 and 1990, Ukraine in 2004). In 122 games, Ivanchuk has scored (+47 =71 -4), for 67. 6 per cent. His detailed Olympiad records, from the site http://www.olimpbase.org/players/oeo8eigf.html, follow.


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