The Old Tricks #1: Ivanchuk's Rare Luck

In order to add some sense to my @chesscom blog, from time to time I will post games/fragments here that deserve, in my humble opinion, to be better known. Please don't expect too much - streams/videos, jumping and screaming, while I'm commenting on these games. Nope.

The first example is Vasyl Ivanchuk's lucky win over another Ukrainian, future Grandmaster Stanislav Savchenko, the Ukrainian junior champion at the time. It was in the final round of the 1985 USSR junior championship in Jurmala, Latvia. This game has been published in several chess magazines but for some reason can't be found in the ChessBase database or at ChessGames.com, for example.

Boris Gelfand became the champion, scoring 9/11 and Ivanchuk occupied second place with 8,5. In the same (final) round of the same tournament I played an even longer game against Artashes Minasian, where I managed to win a curious endgame, and finished in the Top 10, which turned to be one of my main chess achievements in the 1980s.