Just several days remain before the 34th Chess Olympiad starts in Istanbul: www.istanbulchessolympiad.com, October 28-November 12.
The final line-up of the Ukrainian teams will be:
Ukrainian Men's Team: GM Ivanchuk, Vassily 2719, GM Ponomariov, Ruslan 2630, GM Baklan, Vladimir 2599, GM Romanishin, Oleg 2591, GM Eingorn, Vereslav 2586, GM Malakhatko, Vadim 2564. The average ELO: 2614,8 Ukrainian Women's Team: GM Zhukova, Natalia 2450, GM Zatonskih, Anna 2446, GM Vasilevich, Tatjana 2429, GM Sedina, Elena 2405. The average ELO: 2432,5
Incidentally, it is worthwhile to recollect a recent (historical! - because it was the first one) game between the leaders of the Ukrainian team (Ivanchuk-Ponomariov, China, September 2000).
Having joined efforts of the site Chess Sector, the site Lviv Chess and both Ukrainian team leaders, we prepared a special file containing comments of Vassily and Ruslan on this exceedingly fascinating duel! The format is zipped cbv. And I also offer for your consideration the detailed textual comments by Ruslan Ponomariov in English and Russian. So, good luck to our Ukrainian teams in Istanbul! Mikhail Golubev 26.10.2000
Just several days remain before the 34th Chess Olympiad starts in Istanbul:
Incidentally, it is worthwhile to recollect a recent (historical! - because it was the first one) game between the leaders of the Ukrainian team (Ivanchuk-Ponomariov, China, September 2000).
Having joined efforts of the site Chess Sector, the site Lviv Chess and both Ukrainian team leaders, we prepared a special file containing comments of Vassily and Ruslan on this exceedingly fascinating duel! The format is zipped cbv. And I also offer for your consideration the detailed textual comments by Ruslan Ponomariov in English and Russian.