Andrey Filatov, President of the Russian Chess Federation (RSF), commented on the news that the Norwegian Chess Federation (NSF) has suspended Sergey Karjakin and other players supporting the special operation in Ukraine from rating tournaments on its territory and called on organizers in other countries to follow its example. The Norwegian Chess Federation’s call to…
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In an interview with ria.ru journalists, Sergey Karajkin said that Magnus Carlsen acted incorrectly by publicly accusing Hans Niemann of cheating in a game with him in the absence of clear evidence of the American’s guilt, this act was caused by a nervous breakdown in the Norwegian. With all due respect to Magnus, this is…
World Champion Magnus Carlsen published an official letter on his Twitter account, where he spoke about the situation with Hans Niemann. I believe that Niemann has cheated more – and more recently – than he has publicly admitted. His over the board progress has been unusual, and throughout our game in the Sinquefield Cup, I…
Vice-President of the Moscow Chess Federation Sergey Smagin spoke about the game of the rating favorite of the first stage of the women’s Grand Prix. The tournament is being held these days in Astana. Goryachkina acts in her typical manner, she always plays calmly and without risk. If it turns out to seize the initiative…
Magnus Carlsen shared his impressions of the Julius Baer Generation Cup semi-final match against Vincent Keymer. I’ve got to say, especially the first game, I was really impressed with his play. He’s very, very strong! The 3rd game… that was a shame, because I had done everything correctly up to a certain point, and then…
FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich spoke about the ongoing conflict between Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann. First of all, we strongly believe that the World Champion has a moral responsibility attached to his status, since he is viewed as a global ambassador of the game. His actions impact the reputation of his colleagues, sportive results, and…
The 12th women world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk shared her impressions of her game at the stage of the Women’s Grand Prix in Astana: Every day is a new game, and I just try to do my best; sometimes I manage, sometimes I don’t. Well, at some point you really start appreciating the journey more than…
After the end of the round-robin tournament within the framework of the Julius Baer Generation Cup, the world champion was interviewed, in which he spoke about Hans Niemann for the first time in a long time. Unfortunately I cannot particularly speak on that but people can draw their own conclusion & they certainly have. I…
“I understand that frustration of Magnus. I really didn’t know much about a lot of things. Now I am somewhere in the middle. I do believe Hans has not been the cleanest person when it comes to online chess. But he’s a young guy, hopefully this will be a lesson to him not to do…
In an interview at the end of the game day at the Julius Baer Generation Cup, Giri commented on the surrender of the game by Carlsen to Niemann on the second move. “Yeah, I mean the show must go on. It reminds me of when you play poker and you bluff on the first card,…