Vasyl Ivanchuk is one of the few players in the world who can, on a good day, really beat anyone. When Garry Kasparov (once again) lost to Ivanchuk, the former World Champion complained:
Ivanchuk plays sometimes better, sometimes worse, but against Kasparov Ivanchuk always plays like Ivanchuk.
In the late 1980s, Vasyl Ivanchuk burst onto the tournament scene. He was one of the best players in the USSR behind Kasparov and Karpov. In 1988, he won silver at the Junior World Championships. Only Joel Lautier was better. He won the 1988 and 1990 Soviet Gold medals at the Chess Olympiad. The fate of the "eternal runner-up" pursued Ivanchuk even later in his career. In July 1991, he was the second highest-rated player in the world behind Kasparov.
[Read more about Vasyl Ivanchuk on the report we published for his 50th birthday.]
Ivanchuk's chess is characterized by great creativity. And just as in chess, the grandmaster often finds unusual solutions to the problems in life and off the board. How did he finish off Ding from the following position?
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