Vassily Ivanchuk
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Ivanchuk in 2006
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| Full name | Vasyl Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk |
| Country |
Soviet Union Ukraine |
| Born |
March 18, 1969 Kopychyntsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2722 (September 2016) |
| Peak rating | 2787 (October 2007) |
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Representing  Soviet Union
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Thessaloniki 1988 | Open |
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Novi Sad 1990 | Open |
Representing  Ukraine
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Calvià 2004 | Open |
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Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 | Open |
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Yerevan 1996 | Open |
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Elista 1998 | Open |
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Istanbul 2000 | Open |
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Istanbul 2012 | Open |
Vassily Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk, also transliterated as Vasyliy or Vasyl (Ukrainian: Василь Михайлович Іванчук; born March 18, 1969), is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and current World Rapid Chess Champion.
A leading player since 1988, Ivanchuk was ranked No. 2 three times (July 1991, July 1992, October 2007). His erratic results has seen him drop as low as 30th in July 2009 before returning to the top ten in the next list.
Ivanchuk has won Linares, Wijk aan Zee, Tal Memorial, Gibraltar Masters and M-Tel Masters titles. Ivanchuk was the 2007 World Blitz Chess champion, won the Melody Amber rapid in 1992 and shared the combined event in 2010.
In 2011, by the decree of the President of Ukraine, Ivanchuk was awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise IV degree.
In 2016, Ivanchuk won the World Rapid Chess Championship in Doha, Qatar by defeating the current World Champion Magnus Carlsen among many others .
Ivanchuk was born in Kopychyntsi, Ukraine. He won the 1987 European Junior Chess Championship in Groningen and first achieved international notice by winning the 1988 New York Open with 7½/9, ahead of a field of Grandmasters. He tied for first place in the 1988 World Junior Chess Championship at Adelaide, but lost the title on tiebreak to Joël Lautier. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1988, and entered the world top 10 the same year.
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