– Here I see only advantages, because there was a very bad attitude on the part of the European Chess Union, directly from its leader. There was a negative towards Russia. At the end of March, very few Russians played in the European Championship in Slovakia. Someone couldn’t get a visa because of this whole situation, someone, for obvious reasons, was just afraid to go there, and someone didn’t want to play under a neutral flag. It all culminated in the fact that the Russians could be counted on the fingers of one hand,” PostNews quotes the sportsman as saying.
Previously, Sergey Karjakin had been suspended for six months. This happened due to the fact that he supported the conduct of a special operation by Russia on the territory of Ukraine.
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