The European Chess Union has acknowledged Russia's move to join the Asian Chess Federation and will support Russian players who wish to individually switch back to Europe, ECU Vice President Dana Reizniece-Ozola said.The chess world, like many other sports, has been in turmoil since Russia's invasion of U
The European Chess Union has acknowledged Russia's move to join the Asian Chess Federation and will support Russian players who wish to individually switch back to Europe, ECU Vice President Dana Reizniece-Ozola said.
Of the 36 votes, 29 ACF delegates voted in favour of Russia's inclusion and only one voted against, in a decision Russian chess federation president Andrey Filatov described as"historic". "The legal, ethical, practical, moral standards of the Russian Chess Federation so much differs from that of the ECU that it would not be easy or possible at all to accommodate them in our chess community of Europe," she said.
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