Ivanchuk continues the line of great players who never became world champion, such as Keres and Korchnoi. Aronian is close, but has not got there yet. ''Ivanchuk is a player from the first category of chessplayers, a group to which Gelfand and Topalov, for example, do not belong. The result is a fascinating and rewarding journey to ‘Planet Ivanchuk’, the extraterrestrial location where the sphinx from Lvov is said to receive his best brainwaves. Whenever a new opening appears in a game, Kalinichenko presents a brief introduction to this opening, thereby providing a panoramic view of modern opening theory. Ivanchuk is known for his unusually broad opening repertoire. He is adored by chess lovers, admired (and feared!) by fellow grandmasters.įor this book, correspondence grandmaster and chess author Nikolay Kalinichenko has selected over 100 of Ivanchuk’s best and most instructive games, explaining his moves and plans for club players. He has finished first in all major tournaments in the world, at times with astonishing supremacy and always with deeply creative chess. Vassily Ivanchuk is one of the greatest players of modern time.
Last year, the chess grandmaster took part in the Dutch Draughts Open, in May 2016 he started in the Salou Open.''Chuky, you’re a genius.'' Leading grandmasters have been heard to whisper these words, impressed with yet another brilliancy of the Ukrainian wizard. Ivanchuk has been playing in draughts tournaments before. Vassily Ivanchuk, a strong draughts amateur (Photo: ) With three wins, one draw and four losses Ivanchuk (Elo 1956) is 65th with 7/16. After eight rounds five players share the lead with 12/16. It is an open draughts tournament with 104 participants. Instead of travelling to Baku, Azerbaijan, to play in the Olympiad, he went to Karpacz, Poland, to take part in a draughts tournament. Now Ivanchuk decided that it is time for something different. In 2010 he scored 80% on board one, had an Elo-Performance of 2890, and not only won gold with the team but also gold for the best individual result on board one.īut at the last Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway, he scored only 4.0/9, a moderate result for the outstanding player. From 1992 to 2014 Ivanchuk played twelve Olympiads for Ukraine, in eleven of them on board one.ġ9 Vassily Ivanchuk won gold with the Soviet team, 20 he won gold with the Ukrainian team. 19 he was part of the Soviet team, 1988 as a reserve player, but two years later, in 1990, he played on first board. Since 1988 Vassily played in every Chess Olympiad, in 14 altogether. The result is a fascinating and rewarding journey to 'Planet Ivanchuk', the extraterrestrial location where the sphinx from Lvov is said to. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > The ultimate chess experience every day, Pla圜 welcomes 20,000 chess players from all around the world – from beginner to grandmaster. For this book Correspondence Grandmaster and chess author Nikolai Kalinichenko has selected 100 of Vassily Ivanchuk's best and most instructive games, explaining his moves and plans for club players.Memorize it easily move by move by playing against the variation trainer. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Learn openings the right way! Build and maintain your repertoire.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Real Fun against a Chess Program! Play, analyze and train online against Fritz.Top authors like Daniel King, Lawrence Trent and Rustam Kasimdzhanov Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Thousands of hours of high class video training.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Sac, sac, mate! Solve tactical positions of your playing strength.Store your games, training material and opening repertoire in the cloud. (Marshtower Chess Reviews)Almost all the games selected are little jewels. Ivanchuk has the ability to tie up the greatest players in knots. (Mario Ziegler Rochade Europa Magazine)The games are fascinating and very well analyzed. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > My Games – Access your games from everywhere. Kalinichenko's work is an homage to the greatest lover of our game which is long overdue.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > 8 million games online! Updated weekly, our definitive database has all the latest games.