Your attention is offered the best games of one of the strongest chess players in the world - Ukrainian grandmaster Vasily Ivanchuk . His parties are original debut finds, deep strategic ideas and fantastic combination insights. To write about the Ukrainian grandmaster Vasily Ivanchuk is both easy and difficult! Easy, because many games deserve beautiful epithets and the victories of this outstanding chess player of our time . It is difficult, because it is necessary to explain the reasons that prevented the long-term contender from playing a match with the world champion and climbing the chess Olympus . The games of Vasily Ivanchuk listed in this collection are high examples of positional strategy and chess game. But, alas, they do not allow you to see the "spikes and roses" on his way to the realization of the cherished dream of a chess player. They can be presented only by highlighting the individual stages of the life and chess career of Vasily Ivanchuk in combination with his sincere confessions and reflections, as well as with interesting testimonies of contemporaries. What we tried to do in a short introduction to the book .