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✴️ #about_Ivanchuk

🔸 Vassily Ivanchuk
🔸 Ukrainian chess Grandmaster
🔸 Former World Rapid Chess Champion

♦️ Vassily Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk, also transliterated as Vasyliy or Vasyl, is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and a former World Rapid Chess Champion. A leading player since 1988, Ivanchuk was ranked No. 2 three times.

🔘 Full name: Vasyl Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk
🔘 Country: Soviet Union
Ukraine
🔘 Born: March 18, 1969 (age 49)
Kopychyntsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (1988)
🔘 FIDE rating: 2708 (May 2018)
(No. 32 in the FIDE World Rankings)
🔘 Peak rating: 2787 (October 2007)
🔘 Peak ranking: No. 2 (October 2007)

♦️Chess story of Ivanchuk:
IM (1987); GM (1988); European Junior Champion (1987); Candidate (1991 & 2013); vice-World Champion (FIDE) (2001-02); European Champion (2004).

♦️ Vassily Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk was born in Kopychyntsi in Ukraine and has been amongst the world elite players for the last two decades. He has long been a world title aspirant, having twice been a Candidate (in 1990 and 2013), and has won many major tournaments including the annual Linares (4 times) and the Tal Memorial (twice). During past eleven years from 2005 onwards, he has won the Capablanca memorial (a record for their tournament history) 7 times (out of 8 appearances) in which he has participated in it, including one tied share of 1st with Le Quang Liem (before tie-breaks were applied) in 2011.

♦️ Ivanchuk was married to IM and WGM Alisa Galliamova until their separation in 1996. He remarried in November 2006.

♦️ Ivanchuk was the European Junior Champion in 1987, the same year he received his IM title. His first major international result was in 1988 when he won the New York Open with 7.5/9. Also in 1988, he came equal first at the World Junior Chess Championship in Adelaide, although Joel Lautier won the title on tiebreak. 1988 also saw him win his GM title. He followed these early breakthroughs with numerous successes in a glittering career, including first place at Biel 1989, Yerevan 1989, Linares in 1989, 1991, 1995 and 2009 (shared with Alexander Grischuk), equal first (with Gata Kamsky) at the Tilburg super-tournament in 1990, then first in Munich 1994, Horgen 1995, Corus at Wijk aan Zee 1996, Belgrade 1997, Tallinn 2000, Montecatini Terme 2000 and Malmö 2003.

♦️A memorable game by Ivanchuk👇🏼
Ivanchuk won Linares 1991. In first round of this Super Tournament, he played against Garry Kasparov and in a "Brilliant Chess Game" he won this important game which chassgames.com site named it "Planet Ivanchuk Rising" !!
🔘 Vassily Ivanchuk vs Garry Kasparov
🔘 Linares 9th (1991), Linares ESP, rd 1, Feb-23
🔘 Sicilian Defense: Canal Attack (B51)

♦️ Review this informative game and download PGN file👇🏼

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