56-year-old Ukrainian GM Vasyl Ivanchuk is one of the true legends of chess. Among his merits are playing for the FIDE World Championship title in 2002 after defeating Viswanathan Anand in the semi-finals (he eventually lost to Ruslan Ponomariov). He won the legendary Linares tournament in 1991, ahead of World Champion Garry Kasparov.
In 2016, he won the World Rapid Chess Championship, with an impressive 11 points in 13 rounds. He also won the Wijk an Zee tournament (1996), the European Championship (2004) and the FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship (2007).
Ivanchuk also won the Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in 2003, scoring 7 points in 9 rounds, and is participating in the Tepe Sigeman Chess Tournament for the second time.