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A children's chess tournament for Crimea and Donbass will be held next year on the peninsula. Both regions boast quite strong schools, but they do not participate in all-Russian competitions. The famous grandmaster, Crimean Sergei Karyakin spoke about this on Radio Crimea, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He said that the go-ahead for holding the championship was given by the head of Crimea Sergei...
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 in advance that I was taking part in other competitions...
In Simferopol, after a major renovation that lasted almost 7 years, the Dintzer mansion was opened - the central backyard of a sports school for chess and checkers. In Ukraine, they were going to requisition it for a variety show, the representation of the president and the needs of the Council of Ministers, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The first official lesson at the sports school was conducted by the head of Crimea Sergei Aksyonov and grandmaster, world chess champion Sergei Karyakin...
The Russian Chess Federation is putting pressure on athletes who supported the special operation in Ukraine and convincing them to condemn it in order to play at the international level. Crimean resident, winner of the 2015 FIDE World Cup Sergei Karyakin stated this on the First Sevastopol TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Karjakin, the Russian Federation also refused to help him after being suspended by the International Chess...
The twelfth world chess champion Anatoly Karpov visited Republika Srpska, part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and held a ten-board simultaneous game with local chess players in the city of Trebinje. Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports this. In addition, the famous grandmaster announced the organization of world-class chess tournaments in the south of Republika Srpska. Trebinje Mayor Mirko Curic organized a reception...
In Ukraine, the position of the chess players who went to represent the country at the World Championship, which will be held from November 1 to 25 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, was criticized. Thus, the fugitive Russian liberal journalist Aider Muzhdabaev, who works for the Mejlis, which is banned in the Russian Federation, said that the trip of the chess players can be justified only if they visit a Ukrainian terrorist serving time in a Khanty-Mansi prison...
Lvov, April 07 (Navigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – The Lvov Chess Federation declared three Russian chess players as unwanted guests at its events and proposes to make them persona non grata in Ukraine. Subscribe to the news "Navigator - Kyiv" on Facebook or Vkontakte According to Lviv residents, undesirable persons in Ukraine and the Lviv region, in particular, are Russian chess players Anatoly Karpov, Alisa Galyamova and Sergey Karyakin.…
