Her result was considered exceptional considering the strength of the tournament, average 2701, and she was praised for her tactical skills in her game against Ivanchuk.

His position was taken by Vassily Ivanchuk.

From June 11 – 21, he made his debut at the Bazna Kings Tournament in Romania in a field including Carlsen, world No. 5 Vassily Ivanchuk, world No. 6 Sergey Karjakin, world No. 13 Teimour Radjabov and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu ; the tournament was a Category XXI event with an average ELO of 2760, making it the third strongest tournament in history ; Nakamura finished 4½ / 10 ; the tournament was won by Carlsen on tiebreak over Karjakin.

The surprise of round three was Ivanchuk, seeded five, being knocked out by Kasimdzhanov.

Ivanchuk resigned six moves later, in a position which was certainly worse but from which many players would have continued to play.

" The opening's current highest-rated proponent is Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk, although Lev Alburt played it at grandmaster level almost exclusively during his career and was responsible for many contributions in both theory and practice.

Ivanchuk was the 2007 – 2008 World Blitz Chess champion, and won the Amber blindfold and rapid chess championship in 1992 and 2010.

In 2011, by the decree of the President of Ukraine, Ivanchuk was awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise IV degree.

Ivanchuk was born in Kopychyntsi, Ukraine.

It was widely believed that Ivanchuk might become World Champion, but this has not yet happened, although he came close in 2002 when he reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002.

Ivanchuk was playing on board 1 for Ukraine in the 2008 Chess Olympiad held in Dresden.

Ivanchuk was chosen to be tested for illegal substances in his system immediately after the last round.

Ivanchuk was in such a distraught state after the game that he was seen " kicking a large concrete pillar " with such fury that bystanders were surprised he did not break any toes.

There was speculation that if this rule were applied to Ivanchuk, it would result in the USA's bronze medal being stripped and awarded to Hungary due to a change in tie-breaks.

Ivanchuk was eventually found innocent of the charges, on the basis that he was not informed of the need for the doping test beforehand by a Doping Control Officer, in accordance with correct FIDE procedure, and that in his distraught frame of mind, he had not fully understood the arbiter's request.

Sutovsky played in three FIDE Knock-out World Championships: in 1997 he was eliminated in the first round by Guildardo Garcia ; in 2000 he was eliminated in the first round by Igor Nataf ; in 2001 he was eliminated in round three by eventual runner-up Vasily Ivanchuk.

Here Harikrishna, with white, is facing Vassily Ivanchuk, who was world number 2 at that point.

Nigel Short played the gambit twice in the years 1992 – 1993 when he was number 7 – 11, scoring only ½ points against Karpov ( then ranked number two ) and Ivanchuk ( then ranked number three ).

Anand and Karpov finished first, Ljubojevic third, while Polgár finished in clear fourth with 6½ points from 11 rounds ahead of other strong GMs such as Ivanchuk, Short, Korchnoi and her sister Susan.

In 2002 he beat his fellow countryman Vassily Ivanchuk in the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 by a score of 4½ / 2½ to become FIDE World Champion at the age of 18, the first teenager and youngest person to ever become FIDE World Champion.

Led by first board Vasyl Ivanchuk, the seventh highest-rated player at the tournament, who recorded 9½ points over 13 rounds, and second reserve Sergey Karjakin who, aged just 14 years, won 6 of his 7 games ( surrendering a draw only to American Gregory Kaidanov ), Ukraine scored all four possible points in each of their first three matches before " only " defeating Russia 2½-1½ in the fourth round, eventually accumulating a nearly insurmountable three-point lead after the penultimate round.

He finished tied for first in two major open tournaments in 2005: in Gibraltar he scored 7. 5 − 2. 5 ( the same score as Levon Aronian, Zahar Efimenko, Kiril Georgiev, and Alexei Shirov ), and at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow he scored 6. 5 − 2. 5 ( the same as Vasily Ivanchuk, Alexander Motylev, Andrei Kharlov, and Vladimir Akopian ).

* 1969 – Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player

* March 18 – Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess grandmaster

In the prestigious Linares chess tournament Carlsen met the following top-rated players: Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich, Levon Aronian, Peter Leko, and Vassily Ivanchuk ( replacing Teimour Radjabov ).

* Big Chucky or Vassily Ivanchuk ( born 1969 ), chess grandmaster

After 3 ... Nxe4, White usually continues instead 4. Qh5 ( threatening Qxf7 #) 4 ... Nd6 5. Bb3 when Black can either go for the relatively quiet waters of 5 ... Be7 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Nxe5 g6 8. Qe2 ( or 8. Nxc6 dxc6 9. Qe5 0-0 ) Nd4 9. Qd3 Nxb3 10. axb3 Nf5 11. 0-0 d6, which led to equality in Anand – Ivanchuk, Roquebrune 1992. or the complexities of 5 ... Nc6 6. Nb5 g6 7. Qf3 f5 8. Qd5 Qe7 9. Nxc7 + Kd8 10. Nxa8 b6, which the Irish correspondence chess player and theorist Tim Harding extravagantly dubbed " the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation.

Vasyl Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk, also transliterated as Vasyliy or Vasyl (; ) ( born March 18, 1969 in Kopychyntsi, Ukrainian SSR ), is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.

Ivanchuk reached chess world fame at the age of 21 when he won the Linares tournament in 1991.

" Chucky ", as Ivanchuk is called, has been described by Viswanathan Anand as the most eccentric player in the chess world.

After a string of unsuccessful performances culminated in his elimination at the early stages of the 2009 World Cup, Ivanchuk announced, in a highly emotional interview, his retirement from professional chess.

In March 2010 the then world number one Magnus Carlsen played the opening in the blindfold game against Vassily Ivanchuk at the Amber chess tournament.

Eight grandmasters, all considered contenders for the world championship: Karpov, Anand, Salov, Ivanchuk, Kamsky, Shirov, Ljubojevic and Polgár.

Against the elite competition she finished tied for third with Ivanchuk.

Polgár finished in clear fifth position in the 12-GM tournament, ahead of Anand, Ivanchuk, Gelfand and Shirov.

Polgár won a close opening match against Vassily Ivanchuk.

He finished fifth, beating the then world number three, Vassily Ivanchuk, along the way.

Kramnik had exceptionally good results in 2009, winning once again in Dortmund and then winning the Category 21 ( average Elo = 2763 ) Tal Memorial in Moscow with 6 / 9 and a 2883 performance rating ahead of world champion Anand, Vassily Ivanchuk, Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Boris Gelfand, former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov, Peter Leko, Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich.

A last round victory over Mikhail Gurevich enabled Short to finish equal third with Vishwanathan Anand, behind Vassily Ivanchuk and Boris Gelfand, at the Manila Interzonal, thus qualifying as a Candidate for the third successive time.

In the 2003 Siegman tournament in Malmö, he finished third with 5½ / 9, drawing his game with the tournament winner, Vasily Ivanchuk.

In September that year Ukraine won the gold once more at the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk with players Vassily Ivanchuk, Ruslan Ponomariov, Pavel Eljanov, Zahar Efimenko, and Alexander Moiseenko.

In 1996, he won Amsterdam ( 1st equal with Kasparov ), Vienna ( 1st equal with Gelfand and Karpov ), Novgorod and Dos Hermanas ( 1st – 2nd with Kramnik, ahead of Anand, Kasparov, Illescas, Kamsky, Gelfand, Ivanchuk, Shirov and J. Polgar ).

He went undefeated while scoring 6. 5 / 10 — seven draws and three victories, two against Vassily Ivanchuk and the other against Magnus Carlsen in the final round.

The field, in eventual finishing order, consisted of Karpov, Kasparov, Shirov, Bareev, Kramnik, Lautier, Anand, Kamsky, Topalov, Ivanchuk, Gelfand, Illescas, Judit Polgár, and Beliavsky.

In the FIDE Moscow Grand Prix rapid event in June he won matches against Ivanchuk, Svidler, Beliavsky and Akopian before losing the final to Kasparov 0. 5-1. 5.

Later in the year he finished second in the European Championship, behind Nisipeanu but with Karjakin, Ivanchuk and Aronian in third to fifth place.

7 ), behind Ivanchuk and Topalov.

Some of the current top-level players who regularly use it include Peter Leko, Viswanathan Anand, Boris Gelfand, Vassily Ivanchuk, Alexei Shirov, Peter Svidler, and Veselin Topalov.

In November 2008, he won the Cap d ' Agde Rapid Tournament in Cap d ' Agde, defeating Anatoly Karpov in the semifinals and Vassily Ivanchuk in the finals.