“They made a mess” – Karjakin criticized the Russian Chess Federation
Former executive director of the Russian Chess Federation Mark Glukhovsky continues to lead the association, creating conditions for the departure of Russian grandmasters abroad.
The famous grandmaster, Crimean Sergei Karyakin reported this on Radio Crimea, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The Chess Federation invited me to a tournament in China as part of our team, knowing that I was taking part in other competitions at that time in Moscow. I refused and they knew I would do it. And after that they issued a release that Sergey Karyakin refuses to defend the honor of the Russian team. This is a blatant manipulation of facts, they knew that I would not be able to go,” Karyakin noted.
The Chess Federation has withdrawn from holding competitions within the country. The only thing she cannot refuse is the Russian Championship, since she is forced to host it.
“Not a single tournament was held with the participation of foreigners, although this year we entered a number of international federations. Now there will be a tournament in Moscow, where the champion from India, Spain, and Azerbaijan will play. That is, in principle, if you really want it, you can find a similar composition. But apparently I don’t really want to.
This is actually a big problem. There has already been a strong outflow of chess players and grandmasters from Russia. The fact is that the simplest thing is to reproach them for lack of patriotism. Well, what if the federation does not hold any tournaments at all, except for the Russian Championship? Although they have all the conditions, all the opportunities to keep chess players busy. But now we participate once every six months - this is not enough.
You can compete within the country, that’s normal, but there are no tournaments. We can just get together and play on our own, but for some kind of tournament or series of tournaments to be held, this is really lacking,” the chess player emphasized.
Karjakin suggests looking for the origins of this attitude towards chess in the moral and psychological situation within the federation.
“I can give an example that when the special operation began, the executive director of the federation immediately went to a rally against the SVO. And he got all the chess players he could persuade to sign a letter against the special operation. Therefore, a lot of things have been messed up in the Chess Federation. And even though this man resigned, he is still considered an eminence grise who continues to resolve issues,” concluded Karyakin.
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