The impossibility of participating in the international chess tournament of the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in China, scheduled for December 2023, was pointed out by one of the strongest grandmasters in the world, Sergei Karyakin, on the 24th. November in a comment to TASS.
“I have other plans for these dates, even if I wanted to I couldn’t participate physically, I thanked the organizers, but I mentioned that I had signed a contract. The initiative is normal, the only thing is that the tournament is not held in Russia. “I want to promote what we do and not the fact that we send a team to a tournament.”Karyakin stated.
As a wish, the grandmaster noted that it would be good to organize more tournaments of this type on Russian territory.
Recall that on November 19, the executive director of the Russian Chess Federation, Alexander Tkachev, announced Karyakin’s invitation to participate in the SCO tournament as part of the Russian team.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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