On the cobbled streets of Lviv, thought-about Ukraine's 'chess capital', chess lovers collect to play each other on park benches.
Lviv, the western Ukrainian metropolis, simply 70km from the Polish border, has up to now been largely spared the violence unleashed by the Russian invasion that started on 24 February.
Nonetheless, for the Lviv chess group, the invasion of their nation is just not with out penalties.
How is the chess group standing up towards Russia?
The Worldwide Chess Federation (FIDE) has canceled the tournaments that had been scheduled in Russia and banned the show of the Russian flag in worldwide competitions.
Most lately, FIDE banned Russian grandmaster, Sergey Karjakin, from all competitions for six months, as a consequence of him being in breach of their Code of Ethics following his statements on the invasion.
Karjakin, who in 2016 competed towards the Norwegian reigning world champion, Magnus Carlsen, has defended Putin's actions on social media in current weeks.
“The statements by Sergey Karjakin on the continued navy battle in Ukraine has led to a substantial variety of reactions on social media and elsewhere, to a big extent unfavourable in direction of the opinions expressed by Sergey Karjakin”, reads the doc the place FIDE defined the explanations for its determination.
Moreover, Ukrainian grandmaster, Andrei Volokitin has signed an open letter with different gamers, saying that they refuse to face Russian opponents in competitors.
"We made an open letter that we gained’t play towards Russian and Belorussian chess gamers throughout this battle, whereas they’re killing our civilians, our ladies, kids, destroying our cities. I feel it’s logical to not play towards Russia and Russian chess gamers," mentioned the 35-year-old, reigning Ukrainian chess champion.
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