As we noted three weeks ago, the chess world was in turmoil over drug testing in a simmering spat sparked afresh by the threatened suspension of a popular and well-known grandmaster for failing to ...

In a tragic end to the Sao Paulo leg of the 4th final masters tournament, Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine was robbed at gun point and lost his luggage and valuable belongings enroute to the ...

As one of the most creative and unpredictable players in modern chess history, Vasyl Ivanchuk of Ukraine, born in 1969, became a Grandmaster in 1988 and quickly rose to the elite level. Known for his ...

Ukrainian grandmaster Vasyl Ivanchuk received a "wild card" from the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to participate in the FIDE World Cup, which starts on July 29 in Baku, but did not receive ...

World Champion Viswanathan Anand will be making his final bid to defend the title when he takes on Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine in 12th round of the Magistral Ciudad De Linares Chess tournament here on ...

Indian chess ace Viswanathan Anand's signed off second from bottom after his disappointing campaign at the Legends of Chess online tournament ended with a loss to long-time rival Vasyl Ivanchuk in the ...

Alexander Grischuk and Vassily Ivanchuk made it to the last-four of the World Chess Cup, defeating David Navara of and Teimour Radjabov respectively in the tiebreak games of the quarterfinals.

Monaco: World rapid champion Viswanthan Anand scored a fine victory over Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk in the blindfold game of the tenth and penultimate round of Amber blindfold and rapid chess ...

The tournament decamped to the Mauritshuis art museum in The Hague for the tenth round and so it was appropriate that the world champion should find his ambitions of a seventh straight victory ...

A fifth straight win propelled Magnus Carlsen to the head of the Tata Steel tournament, as the chasing pack kept up the pressure. Carlsen defeated Baadur Jobava to reach 6/8, but the trio of Wesley So ...