favorite game Chess for Sashka Didur, the resident of Mariupol. pic.twitter.com/XJTXA43uei
— Вячеслав Запорожец (@VvZiper) September 13, 2024
Vasyl Ivanchuk and other Ukrainian chess players signed a letter to @FIDE_chess urging not to lift sanctions against the russian and belarusian federations@Ponomariov @AndriyVolokitin @Natalichess @EvgeniyaDoluhan@AKamyshin @Eljanov @PHChess @AndriyBar @TarjeiJS @ChessProblem pic.twitter.com/BADHLhPEM6
— Tribuna.com Україна (@tribunaua) September 16, 2024
As on the chess board, Kasparov sees things clearly.
Reality is that FIDE and Dvorkovich had the power to stop Russian???????? chess activities in occupied Ukrainian???????? territories, but allowed more than 1.000(!) Russian chess events, while turning the blind eye. https://t.co/rNUqX1YZ5S
— Peter Heine Nielsen (@PHChess) September 14, 2024
Remember in 2008 when Putin threatened to nuke Poland if they got a defensive missile shield (so Russians couldn’t do to them what russians would later do to Ukraine) and Poland got the missile shield then Putin did nothing? pic.twitter.com/UBNRhZt3cQ
— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) September 14, 2024