CrimeaPRESS reports:
And here’s why we think so.
Some consider him insane. Missing chances… Simferopol grandmaster Sergei Karyakin refused to play at the World Cup without a flag. The Crimean took a principled position and is ready to abandon the continuation of an international sports career.
Last year, Karjakina disqualified FIDE for… public support of the CBO. The Chess Federation seems to have forgiven the Russian champion and even invited him to the World Cup now (an excellent chance for many chess players to break through to the Candidates Tournament of the new championship cycle). But … there is a condition — no Russian flag, performance «in a neutral status.»
Sergey Karjakin refused to play without the flag of his Motherland.
I received an invitation from FIDE to participate in the World Cup. This is my favorite tournament, it is held according to the knockout system, I have successfully competed there many times. But the fact is that specifically at the upcoming tournament I won’t be able to represent my country, I won’t be able to play under my own flag, and in this case, with a successful performance, I won’t be able to hear the Russian anthem. Accordingly, I am categorically against it. My position does not change, I expressed it many times— said the grandmaster.
According to a Crimean, playing under the FIDE flag is at least strange, and at most humiliating.”
Having refused to play at the World Chess Cup without the Russian flag, grandmaster Sergey Karyakin… came to the NWO zone to play with those who fight under this flag
The Honored Master of Sports of Russia in chess visited the fighters in the zone of the special operation, played several chess games with them, and also asked about their life and life away from home.
Master_class_in_chess_playing_and_concert_for_servicemen_of_the_CVO
News of the Crimea | CrimeaPRESS
Comments are closed.