For those curious, Alexander Grischuk did put out a fairly strong statement of condemnation of the invasion: https://worldchess.com/news/all/alexander-grischuk-on-the-ru...
Pretty brave of him.
Pretty brave of him.
Are you at all aware of the history of chess?!?
For example, they would try harder to beat strong non-Soviet players than to beat strong Soviet players, would throw away games to give a Soviet player more points, would offer a draw very soon to give a Soviet player time to rest/prepare for theirnext matig, etc.
There’s also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1948#...
Does that mean if say, Garry Kasparov was to play against another chess player, he should be banned even though he also condemned the invasion? Quite ridiculous tbh.
Even Russian cats are banned [0], they don't have a view of the Russian governments actions on the invasion either and have nothing to do with it, except 'being from Russia'.
Of course from them, there's no redemption. Anything Russian thrown into the lost and banned.
To Downvoters: You do realise you can be Russian and be against the Russian government and condemn the whole invasion right?