Vassily Ivanchuk, also transliterated as Vasyl (Василь Михайлович Іванчук , Vasyl Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk) (born March 18 1969), is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. Ivanchuk has an Elo rating of 2751 on the FIDE January 2008 ratings list, making him number nine in the world and Ukraine's number one. At his career peak, he has been rated as high as second, behind only Garry Kasparov. He played board one on the victorious Ukraine team at the 2004 Calvia Chess Olympiad. As of November 2007 he is the World Blitz Chess champion.