Chess grandmaster Sergey Karjakin has been banned by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) for 6 months for voicing his support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
FIDE claimed Sergey violated Code of Ethics and his statements have “led to a considerable number of reactions on social media and elsewhere, to a large extent negative towards the opinions expressed”, and therefore, posed a “threat to the reputation of chess”.
Karjakin, who became one of the world’s youngest chess grandmasters when he was 12 years old, slammed the decision, saying: “All sports selections have been trampled, the basic principle that sport is out of politics has been trampled.”
