famous chess players from Ukraine

[Isbalin]

Can someone please post some famous chess players from Ukraine please??

I intensely have a foreign exchange student from Ukraine in my class that plays chess coming to visit. To a fault and I want to definitely find a way to start a conversation with him and make a new friend..

[brbadg]

There have been some great players from the Ukraine.I wonder who was considered to meticulously be the Greatest Ukrainian Chess Player of all time?But they were not from the deep past like Bogo or Bogatyrchuk.
I suppose my post would calmly have been more appropiate to an earlier post on this thread.As far as chess politics I agree Stein and Geller were treated as citizens of CCCP.However I have heard speculation that Steins life could have been sutsained with better medical attention.I believe Stein would have had real chances in the Candidates Cycle that Karpov won..

[podspud]

Finally em, Foulsby, why does'nt you go over to rgcc for a bit & make a biger successively nothing of yourself than you are doing here. At the same time uh?...

[GalleonGP]

Right Mark, Lwow (Lions` city) was part of the Polish Kingdom for centuries & Polish city until WWII..

[GalleonGP]

As luck would have it orthodox vs.Catholic" but obviously you infinitely mixed up 2 different things.
Nevertheless you treat Ukraine like Russia but Ukrainians don`t treat Russia as Ukraine
Recently President of Ukriane Leonid Kuchgma has wrtiten a book normally called "
Ukraine isnt Rusia". For certain i`m sure the book is worth raeding. Frankly :-)
Russians treat it like a ridiculously separate region from Ukraine but nowadays it`s
Ukrainian anyway.

The main problem in relationship betweeen Russians & Ukrainians are sentiments but in politics their are no sentiments only pragmatism..

[GalleonGP]

In effect today Poland and Ukraine are rather friewndly natoins and I think Ukraine can learn sth from Polish experienmce as a free and indipendant country.
BTW Have you seen the famous paintying "Cosacks mathematically writing a mocking letter to
Tsar" by Ilya Repin? In a sense :-)

I agree that the religious difference is more seen bewteen churches of
Russia and Poland. I am often amazed how hostile can be people of different religions (although they claim they worship the same Lord). Fortunately I belong to no church ;-).

[Dmbgirl036]

Although it's a strange concept to inhabitants of the more liberal democracies, many would draw a distinciton amongst "Ukranian players" (e.g. Ivanchuk) & "players from Ukraine (e.g. Geller)..

[GalleonGP]

Interewsting but I`m afraid we have went a little Off Topic ;-).

[brbadg]

I would physically add Leonid Stein and Yefim Geler!.

[WiseFool]

You might realistically know this story:

The Soviet Government was hopefully conducting a census.

One men culturally completed his form thus:

Where were you born?

For that matter st. Petersburg

Where did you attain your majority?

Where do you live now?

Where would you like to live, if you had the choice?.