Sergej Karjakin has been banned from Fide for the past year after publicly supporting Russia and their invasion of Ukraine. Now it is said that he will be back in the heat. Recently, the Russian shared on his Telegram page that he had been invited to the “World Cup” tournament by the association. The top three in the said tournament get to participate in the candidate tournament which determines who gets to be part of the next Chess WC. TOP PLAYER: Karjakin was considered one of the best chess players in the world. Here with Magnus Carlsen from when they met at the WC match in 2016. Photo: EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ / AFP – It’s my favorite tournament, with a “knockout” format. I have played well there in the past. But in the upcoming tournament I cannot represent my country, play under my flag, and if I succeed, I will not hear the national anthem in the country. I am categorically against this, he said according to Reuters. – Catastrophe As is known, Russians are not allowed to participate in Fide tournaments under Russian flags, but must compete under a neutral Fide flag – if they want to participate. The Russian chess player, who has taken a clear position, will not reveal that. The rejection does not surprise chess expert Atle Grønn. – What Fide is constantly trying to do is not to provoke the West too much, while at the same time serving Russia’s interests. They are in a permanent wedge between Russia and the West. They act as if they are inviting Karjakin, then they know that he will not come, he says to news. – Here they (Fide) have not chosen to provoke Russia. They understand that if Karjakin had asked, it would have been a disaster for the rest of the world. They have their feelers out and know that Karjakin is withdrawing. – Sees it as an insult According to the Reuters news agency, FIDE has responded by saying that Karjakin has not been invited, but was instead qualified based on his results, and reiterated the rules of neutrality for Russian and Belarusian participants. – If he was going to participate, he had to participate with a neutral flag. He sees it as an insult if he is not allowed to wear it (the Russian flag) and so do his followers, says Grønn and adds: – Then he is practically out of this here. Karjakin has received massive criticism for supporting the Vladimir Putin regime. In March, Fide chose to ban the 32-year-old for six months for breaching the association’s ethical guidelines. Fide top Emil Sutovsky believes this time that there is absolutely no question of an invitation to the “World Cup”. – It is wrong to claim that FIDE “invited Karjakin” as someone did. He got his place after the tournament back in 2021. It is not a question of inviting or not – it is our legal obligation, he tells Reuters. Grønn does not fully agree with that explanation. – It would have been strange to reject him, but one could have excluded him. One could have extended the quarantine and suspension that he received at the beginning of the war. news has sent a request to Fide for a comment on Grønn’s performance, but has so far received no reply.
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