The Ukrainian chess community is helping Ukraine in the war against Russia. The chess genius
Vasyl Ivanchuk is giving online simuls to raise funds. European champion and Olympic gold medal
winner Natalia Zhukova is working as a politician in Odessa. And FIDE World Champion Ruslan
Ponomariov coordinated this wonderful collection of chess games from Ukrainian players
published by New In Chess. All games were nominated and annotated by the players themselves.
The proceeds of this book will support Ukrainian charities. The book also covers the three
legendary Olympic victories by Ukraine in 2004 and 2010 for the men's team and 2006 for the
women's team. Oleg Romanishin remembers his training match against Mikhail Tal. And Jan Timman
has a look at his favourite Ukrainian study composers. With contributions by Vasyl Ivanchuk
Ruslan Ponomariov Anna and Mariya Muzychuk Anton Korobov Vladimir Tukmakov Pavel Eljanov
Andrei Volokitin and many many others.
