He was then narrowly excluded, on the basis of rating, from the rival FIDE World Chess Championship 2005. Due to obligations with FIDE, Ivanchuk and Anand did not participate in the 2002 Dortmund Candidates tournament for the Classical World Chess Championship 2004. Ivanchuk's world championship aspirations were also dampened by the unfortunate title split from 1993 to 2006. Subsequent match-play tournaments in World Championship cycles saw Ivanchuk consistently underperform in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, Chess World Cup 2005, Chess World Cup 2007, and Chess World Cup 2009, he failed to advance past the third round despite being seeded No. Ivanchuk's nerves were notably exposed during the high-tension atmosphere of World Championship match-format tournaments, such as in 2002 where he was heavily favored in the FIDE championship final after having defeated defending champion Anand in the semifinals, only to lose to countryman Ruslan Ponomariov in a major upset, denying him the championship.
His inability to become world champion despite his immense talent and longevity has been attributed to his admittedly poor nerves, demonstrated by blunders such as at the 1994 London Grand Prix blitz, when he failed to complete a strong attack on Viswanathan Anand with a mate in one despite having 1:14 left on the clock. Ivanchuk consistently ranked among the top 10 from July 1988 to October 2002 and among the top 20 up to June 2009, but Mark Crowther's The Week in Chess said his erratic play was due to "poor temperament." His results saw him drop as low as 30th in July 2009, but he returned to the top ten in the next list. He came close in 2002, when he reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002. It was widely believed that Ivanchuk might become world champion. Ivanchuk edged Kasparov by a half point, defeating Kasparov in their head-to-head game. Fourteen players participated, eight of them, including World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, rated in the top ten in the world, and another two among the world's top 50 players. Ivanchuk attained chess world fame in 1991 at the age of 21 when he won the Linares tournament. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1988, and entered the world top 10 the same year. He tied for first place in the 1988 World Junior Chess Championship at Adelaide, but lost the title on tiebreak to Joël Lautier. He won the 1987 European Junior Chess Championship in Groningen and first achieved international notice by winning the 1988 New York Open scoring 7½/9 points, ahead of a field of grandmasters. Ivanchuk was born in Kopychyntsi, Ukraine.
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