Today is 50^th birthday of GM Vassily Ivanchuk, true Chess Wizard and Genius.

Born on 18^th of March 1969 in Kopychyntsi town (Ternopil region, Ukraine)

Grandmaster (1988)

4-times Chess Olympiad winner:

twice – as a member of USSR-team (1988, 1990), twice – as a member of Team Ukraine (2004, 2010)

2-times World Champion:

as a member of USSR-team (1989), as a member of Team Ukraine (2001)

World Champion in Blitz (2007), World Champion in Rapid (2016), European Champion (2004).

In 2008 – Rating #1 in the World (2791)

Chess-players about Vassily Ivanchuk:

GM Emil Sutovsky:

Who is the best ever chessplayer in the world? Obviously, Vassily Ivanchuk in a good shape!

GM Alexander Khalifman:

Vasya – it`s a Galaxy! As a personality he is very close to Fischer. Everything outside chess he perceives

as an obstacle. I adore his genious!

GM Nikita Vityugov:

Why do we love Ivanchuk? To my mind – for his devotion to Chess as an Art!

GM Garry Kasparov, 13^th World Champion:

Congrats to the Great Vassily on winning the World Rapid!

He surprised me many times at the board; now he’s teaching a whole new generation.

Vassily Ivanchuk won Linares was 21 years ago.

The first time he won, Magnus Carlsen was not yet born.

Grey Ukrainian Eagle!

My native Team Ukraine hosts a big event (Tournament of the Year-2019) – Vassily Ivanchuk Cup.

It will take place on Saturday, 23th of March at 19-00 GMT (Note – just after Archibaldchess-8)

Swiss, 10 rounds, Blitz 3+2

https://www.chess.com/live#t=1048171

I am delighted to participate in the event as a player, as an organizer and as a jury-member.

More than 100 players of Team Ukraine will perform, among them at least 20 are titled players.

As a prize – a newly published book Two Universes of Vassily Ivanchuk (2019, in Ukrainian, by Myron Kozak) with

Genuine autograph of GM Ivanchuk
Photos of Vassily Ivanchuk given by his family
Games of Genius

Prizes will be given to:

- Top-5 Winners of the Tournament

- Best Games Authors

Best games of the tournament are determined by Experts Jury (among them – member of Archibaldchess)

Expert Jury:

GM Vladimir Okhotnik @kintoho (Uzhgorod, Ukraine)

(trainer of Vassily Ivanchuk in Junior Team of Ukraine in 1980-s)

GM Mikhail Golubev @Mikhail_Golubev (Odessa, Ukraine)

(team-mate of Vassily Ivanchuk in Junior Team of Ukraine in 1980-s)

GM Eldar Gasanov @ElGasanov (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

IM Vladimir Grabinsky, honoured trainer of Ukraine (Lviv, Ukraine)

IM Alexey Palekha @rainspistols, superadmin of Team Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

IM Valery Grinev @enakievo, trainer (Kyiv, Ukraine)

IM Pavel Sevostianov @IMcoach, trainer (Kyiv, Ukraine)

IM Alexey Maly @supernotar (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Evgeniy Murkenshtein @mksn_undead, admin of Team Ukraine (Linz, Austria)

Tómas Veigar Sigurðarson, @lakituba Superadmin of Team Iceland (Akureyri, Iceland)

Neil Blackburn @simaginfan, top-blogger of chess.com (Great Britain)

Kamalakanta Nieves @Kamalakanta top-blogger of chess.com (Puerto Rico)

FM Michele Coto @michechess89 top-blogger of chess.com (Cuba)

Outstanding Games of GM Vassily Ivanchuk

Ivanchuk - Karjakin

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1487929

Ivanchuk – Csom (Yerevan, 1989)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1060109

Ivanchuk – Shirov (Wijk aan Zee, 1996)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1060750

Ivanchuk - Jobava

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1594902

Ivanchuk – Kasparov (1991, Linares)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1060207

Ivanchuk – Kasparov (1994, Amsterdam)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1017843

Topalov - Ivanchuk (Linares,1999)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1406152

Ivanchuk – Gelfand (Amber,2010)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1578590

Ivanchuk – Morozevich (Amsterdam,1996)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1060718

Ivanchuk – Van Wely (Amber,2006)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1401024

Ivanchuk – Aronian (2006)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1410144

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