Ivanchuk won the rapid World Championship in Doha at the end of last year.
I first played against Vassily in 1986. In 1988 he was already rated among the top ten in the World. He is still there today. At age of 47 he is still one of the most unpredicted player around, he can win as we saw in Doha, but he can lose as well. I was lucky to beat him in several occasions. Most notably in Delhi where the famous chair incident occured.
In Doha Ivanchuk controlled his nerves and adding extra credit to his title he won convincingly against Word number one Magnus Carlsen. The game was so one sided, that if you do not know who were playing you might not to pay attention to the game at all. Just one professional running over not so strong player. This is it. It matters how you win or lose. Magnus definately got very uppset and later lost to Ivanchuk in blitz as well. You may follow the live game here.
The blitz game won by Ivanchuk was also very instructive.
Vassily Ivanchuk never became a World Champion and most likely he never does, but he still has his moments.
Jaan Ehlvest