Ukrainian grandmaster Vasyl Ivanchuk was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.
The ceremony took place in St. Louis, USA. This year, the Hall of Fame also included Boris Gelfand (Israel), Ulf Andersson (Sweden), Nana Ioseliani (Georgia) and Oleksandra Kosteniuk (Switzerland).
▪️ Ivanchuk won the prestigious tournament in Linares in 1991, defeating two world champions - Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. During his career, he rose to second place in the world ranking three times, and at the age of 47 he became the world rapid chess champion. He won the Chess Olympiads four times - twice as part of the USSR national team and twice - for Ukraine.
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