The 21-year-old Vassily Ivanchuk, pictured after winning the 1991 edition of the Ciudad de Linares tournament. His greatest success as a representative of the Soviet Union undoubtedly came in early 1991, when he won again at Linares in a star-studded field, ahead of World Champion Kasparov. Just out of his teens, he was #4 in the FIDE rating list of July 1989, with only Kasparov, Karpov and Short ahead of him. Nonetheless, his victory in the super-tournament at Linares in early 1989 (ahead of Karpov, Ljubojević, Short, Timman etc.) was still something of a sensation. In 1988 he made his breakthrough at the international level, taking clear 1st place in the New York Open, and a few months later, he finished 5th-6th with Eingorn in the final of the 55th USSR Championship in Moscow, behind Kasparov & Karpov (=1st-2nd), Jussupow & Salov (=3rd-4th) but ahead of the likes of Beliavsky, Ehlvest, Smyslov and A. In 1987, Ivanchuk again took a significant leap forward, winning the First League (effectively a semi-final) of the 55th USSR Championship in Lvov, ahead of many experienced grandmasters. Ivanchuk, pictured, I believe, in the televised Moscow tournament of 1987, in which he played on Board 8 for the ‘Younger Generation’ team. In early 1986, still aged only 16, he stunned the Soviet chess establishment by taking first place in the annual USSR Young Masters’ Championship, for players under the age of 26. Soon afterwards he finished 3rd in the adult championship of the Ukrainian republic. Akopian, Smirin and Dautov) to become the Soviet representative in the World Junior (Under-20) championship. In early 1985 – the year in which he gained the Master of Sport title – he convincingly won a strong 13-round all-play event at Klaipėda (ahead of Bareev, Oll and the likes of Gelfand, V. (Later, he also would also work with Feliks Levin and Leonid Kaplun.)īy 1984 his talent had been recognised at the All-Union level, and he was selected to represent the USSR in the World Under-16 championship.
From 1982, he was also assisted by Viktor Zheliandinov and Vladimir Buturin. From 1980, he began to work with the Lvov master Mikhail Nekrasov. His first trainer was Oleg Kalinin, with whom he began to work in 1979 in the chess club of the Sporting Society Avangard in Ternopol. Vassily Ivanchuk, one of the greatest chess talents to emerge during the final years of the Soviet Union, was born in the Ternopol region of the Ukrainian republic on 18th March 1969. Also mentioned GM Arthur Bisguier, GM Larry EvansĤ7:00- How did Alex get into chess writing?Ĥ9:30- Goodbye! You can email FM Alex Dunne here.A blog post featuring links to translations of Vassily Ivanchuk’s contemporary annotations to some of his early games, as they appeared in the Soviet publications ‘Shakhmaty v SSSR’, ‘Shakhmaty (Riga)’ and ’64’. Interview with Bob Ferguson and Alex DunneĤ2:00- Alex reminisces about playing ping pong with Bobby Fischer as a teenager.
How did he improve so much as an adult? Mentioned. Mentioned: My Great Predecessors, Vassily Ivanchuk: 100 Selected Games, Mato Jelic’s YouTube Channel, The Complete Chess Course by Fred Reinfeldģ6:00- It took Alex about 20 years to go from the expert level to the master level, and then he continued to ascend up to a peak rating over 2400 USCF.
We also discuss the nuts and bolts of how correspondence games are transmitted, and the rules regarding when book/engine assistance is and is not allowed in correspondence chess.Ģ7:45- Alex has written a book about chess books, and has over 2,000 chess books titles in his library, so naturally I had to ask him about chess books. 1931-1940ġ8:00- Alex discusses how correspondence chess has changed at its highest levels, and assesses the future of correspondence chess. Mentioned: Israel “Al” Horowitz, Irving Chernev, Fred Reinfeld Whales and Whaling. He was also one of the first Americans to make a living from chess, and managed to do so despite coming of age during The Great Depression. Reinfeld was a top 10 player in the US, and is probably the best selling chess author of all time.
We discuss the life and legacy of Fred Reinfeld. 0:00- We kick off by discussing Alex’s latest book, Fred Reinfeld, The Man Who Taught America Chess.
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