Ivanchuk:

Move by Move

Junior Tay

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781781941713

Vassily Ivanchuk has been one of the World's leading chess players for over two decades. He announced his arrival as a 21-year-old when he defeated Garry Kasparov on the way to winning the Linares Super-Grandmaster event. In a distinguished career he has won countless elite tournaments and was a FIDE World Championship finalist. Ivanchuk is considered by many contemporaries to be a chess genius, and he has acquired a huge fan base that delights in his enterprising and creative play. His original style has helped to create games full of brilliant attacking chess and masterful strategy. In this book, Junior Tay invites you to join him in a study of his favourite Ivanchuk games, and shows us how we can all improve by learning from Ivanchuk's masterpieces. Move by Move provides an ideal platform to study chess. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practicing of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to improve your chess skills and knowledge.

Table of contents

• Series Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Foreword (by GM Mikhail Golubev)
• Introduction
• 1 Global Domination
• 2 A ‘Rook Awakening’ ...
• 3 Pragmatism and Precision in the Regicide Quest
• 4 Aggressive Defence
• 5 Mutanis Mutandis
• 6 Chucky the Closer
• 7 Planet Ivanchuk Immigration Visa Questions
• Index of Games
• Answer
• Agdestein.S-Ivanchuk.V, World Junior Championships, Baguio City 1987
• Alekseev.E-Ivanchuk.V, FIDE World Cup, Khanty-Mansiysk 2011
• Anand.V-Ivanchuk.V, FIDE World Championship (4th matchgame), Moscow 2001
• Bologan.V-Ivanchuk.V, PCA Grand Prix, Moscow (rapid) 1996
• Brochet.P-Ivanchuk.V, European Club Cup, Plovdiv 2010
• Carlsen.M-Ivanchuk.V, World Rapidplay Championship, Astana 2012
• Dao Thien Hai-Ivanchuk.V, Moscow Olympiad 1994
• Dorfman.J-Ivanchuk.V, Barcza Memorial, Debrecen 1988
• Ehlvest.J-Ivanchuk.V, Tallinn (rapid) 1996
• Epishin.V-Ivanchuk.V, Tilburg 1992
• Ivanchuk.V-Akopian.V, World Junior Championships, Baguio City 1987
• Ivanchuk.V-Anand.V, Thematic Tournament, Buenos Aires 1994
• Ivanchuk.V-Andreikin.D, Capablanca Memorial, Havana 2011
• Ivanchuk.V-Haba.P, Barcza Memorial, Debrecen 1988
• Ivanchuk.V-Hansen.L, Champigny sur Marne 1984
• Ivanchuk.V-Hector.J, Malmö 2003
• Ivanchuk.V-Khalifman.A, Reggio Emilia 1991/92
• Ivanchuk.V-Manor.I, European Junior Championships, Groningen 1986
• Ivanchuk.V-Piket.J, Wijk aan Zee 1996
• Ivanchuk.V-Riazantsev.A, Russian Team Championship 2008
• Ivanchuk.V-Rokhmanov.S, Klaipeda 1985
• Ivanchuk.V-Romanov.E, Russian Team Championship 2011
• Ivanchuk.V-Tabatadze.T, Leningrad 1985
• Ivanchuk.V-Urban.K, Polish Team Tournament, Warsaw 2002
• Ivanchuk.V-Vachier Lagrave.M, Istanbul Olympiad 2012
• Ivanchuk.V-Xu Jun, Novi Sad Olympiad 1990
• Ivanchuk.V-Ye Jiangchuan, FIDE World Championship, Moscow 2001
• Kaidanov.G-Ivanchuk.V, Lvov 1987
• McShane.L-Ivanchuk.V, German League 2008
• Nakamura.H-Ivanchuk.V, FIDE Grand Prix, London 2012