Thursday, September 16, 2004
Lovable Chukky!!
One of my favorite players is Vassily Ivanchuk. He is a true chess artist. Click here to see one of his brilliancies. This one is against Kasparov! Kasparov used to avoid playing Ivanchuk during the early 90s. To say that he was afraid of Ivanchuk will not be exaggerating :p
There is a humorous anecdote involving Kasparov/Ivanchuk & Kamsky.Rustam Kamsky (father of Gata Kamsky) accused Kasparov of poisoning his son's orange juice during Linares '92, to which Garry angrily retorted, "If I was going to do that, I'd have poisoned Ivanchuk's" Recently, he gave an interview after the Libya World Cup Championship matches. Find it here. Just to balance things out, here is one of the best (!?) "Really 2700??" game from Ivanchuk.
[Site "Groningen WC KO"]
[Date "1997.12.11"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Seirawan,Yasser"]
[Black "Ivanchuk,Vassily"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E70"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Bd3 e5 6. d5 a5 7. Nge2 Na6 8. f3 Nd7 9. Be3 Bh6 10. Qd2 Bxe3 11. Qxe3 c6 12. Qh6 Ndc5 13. Rd1 Qb6 14. Bb1 Ke7 15. f4 exf4 16. Rf1 Rf8 17. Qxf4 f6 18. dxc6 Qxc6 19. Nd4 Qe8 20. Nd5+ Kd8 21. Qxd6+ Bd7 22. Nb5 1-0
There is a humorous anecdote involving Kasparov/Ivanchuk & Kamsky.Rustam Kamsky (father of Gata Kamsky) accused Kasparov of poisoning his son's orange juice during Linares '92, to which Garry angrily retorted, "If I was going to do that, I'd have poisoned Ivanchuk's" Recently, he gave an interview after the Libya World Cup Championship matches. Find it here. Just to balance things out, here is one of the best (!?) "Really 2700??" game from Ivanchuk.
[Site "Groningen WC KO"]
[Date "1997.12.11"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Seirawan,Yasser"]
[Black "Ivanchuk,Vassily"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E70"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Bd3 e5 6. d5 a5 7. Nge2 Na6 8. f3 Nd7 9. Be3 Bh6 10. Qd2 Bxe3 11. Qxe3 c6 12. Qh6 Ndc5 13. Rd1 Qb6 14. Bb1 Ke7 15. f4 exf4 16. Rf1 Rf8 17. Qxf4 f6 18. dxc6 Qxc6 19. Nd4 Qe8 20. Nd5+ Kd8 21. Qxd6+ Bd7 22. Nb5 1-0
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