Vasyl Ivanchuk
Ukrainian chess player
Vasyl Mykhailovych Ivanchuk (Ukrainian: Василь Михайлович Іванчук; born March 18, 1969) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1988. A leading chess player since 1988, Ivanchuk has been ranked at No. 2 on the FIDE world rankings three times (July 1991, July 1992, October 2007).
Ivanchuk has won Linares, Wijk aan Zee, Tal Memorial, Gibraltar Masters and M-Tel Masters titles. He has also won the World Blitz Championship in 2007 and the World Rapid Championship in 2016.
Career
Early years
Ivanchuk was born in Kopychyntsi on March 18, 1969. His father was a lawyer, and his mother was a physics teacher. He began playing chess after his father bought him a magnetic chess set for his birthday. The first chess book he read was Journey to the Chess Kingdom by Yuri Averbakh and Mikhail Beilin.
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