Happy 55th Birthday to Vasyl Ivanchuk, the four-time Olympic champion, 2007 Blitz, and 2016 Rapid World Champion! 🎂🎊
As a former world #2, he continues to inspire chess fans with his creatively unique style of play.
📷 Maria Emelianova
Vladimir Kramnik about the new generation:
"They think differently. They are much more concrete. They calculate extremely well and don't make too many unforced errors, much less than we did."
"That's why it is interesting for them to play us and us to play them, because it's a different approach."
"The base of our play was strategy. Now the base is more tactical as the talented players learn with computer from the childhood. It's a different set of mind."