Vassily Ivanchuk, 100 selected games

Vassily Ivanchuk is one of the most outstanding players of modern times. He has finished first in all the major tournaments in the world, sometimes with extraordinary supremacy and always with a deep creative chess. He is worshiped by chess lovers, admired (and feared!) by his colleagues Great Masters, who have no qualms recognize him as a true genius of the board.

For this book, Grand Master and experienced correspondence chess book author Nikolay Kalinichenko has selected 100 of the best and most instructive games of Ivanchuk, explaining their ideas and plans for club players and fans in general.

Ivanchuk is known for its wide opening repertoire. You can play almost everything. When a new opening comes on the scene, Kalinichenko a brief introduction to it, thus providing a panoramic view of current openings theory.

The result of this work is a fascinating and rewarding journey to unforeseeable ideas of this artist board, and fills a gap in the literature of chess.

Garry Kasparov: "Ivanchuk is a player located in the first category of chess players, a group, for example, non players like Gelfand and Topalov. Aronian is close, but you have not succeeded. Ivanchuk continues the line of great players who never became world champions such as Keres and Korchnoi. However, somehow, you can say it has exceeded them Ivanchuk finished ahead of me and Karpov tournament, while their great predecessors never achieved such successes, nor finish ahead of all the elite of his time ".