Legendary chess player Vasyl Ivanchuk, who is currently making headlines at the Chess Olympiad, has signed a letter against the Kyrgyzstan Chess Federationresolution to restore the full membership rights of RCF. Together with Ivanchuk, the whole Olympic team of Ukraine signed the petition – the open team GM Andrey Volokitin, GM Anton Korobov, GM Ruslan Ponomariov, and GM Volodymyr Onishchuk; the women team of Ukraine – IM Inna Gaponenko, IM Yuliia Osmak, IM Natalia Buksa, WGM Ievgeniya Doluhanova, GM Anna Ushenina; and coaches GM Mykhaylo Brodskiy and GM Alexander Beliavsky – all of them urging not to lift sanctions against the Russian and Belarusian federations.
The team of Ukraine will go to the boards for their round 6 match today at the Chess Olympiad in Budapest – you can follow the live games here
Here is a comprehensive timeline on the subject:
Aug 21 Kyrgyzstan Chess Federation submits resolution to restore the full membership rights of RCF
Aug 22 David Llada talks about systematically to reward submission
Sept 1 Alexander Kamyshin is the new President of Ukrainian Chess Federation
Sept 7 Babur Tolbaev is among the candidates for FIDE Ethics Commission chairman
Sept 9 Russia most probably has the votes to pass the Kyrgyz resolution
Sept 9 Kamyshin: I will personally attend the FIDE General Assembly
Sept 12 Garry Kasparov supports Alexander Kamyshin
Sept 12 Malcolm Pein for BBC, “Russia’s control of FIDE is absolute”
