Vassily Ivanchuk continues winning streak

Ukrainian took yet another tournament

I am not a veteran! - said Vassily Ivanchuk in an interview for the newspaper "Komanda". The Ukrainian leading player continues his impressive winning streak after he took Capablanca Memorial and Aerosvit Foros. This time he edged World Championship participant Alexander Grischuk by half point in the 10-player rapid Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup.

Having lost against Grischuk in the third round, Ivanchuk switched gear to win all three games on the 2nd day and additional two games on the last day. Grischuk couldn't keep the pace and Radjabov's persistent defence in the last round handed the trophy to Ivanchuk.

Fantastic run: GM Vassily Ivanchuk

Final standings:
1. Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR 2762) 7.0
2. Alexander Grischuk (RUS 2726) 6.5
3-4. Teimour Radjabov (AZE 2746) and Alexei Shirov (ESP 2735) 5.5
5. Boris Gelfand (ISR 2733) 5.0
6. Yuri Drozdovskij (UKR 2567) 4.0
7. Etienne Bacrot (FRA 2695) 3.5
8. Viktor Korchnoi (SUI 2610) 3.0
9-10. Vladimir Tukmakov (UKR 2551) and Ilia Smirin (ISR 2649) 2.5