https://chessandmind.com/chess-intelligentsia Tu portal para aprender ajedrez Sun, 24 Apr 2022 05:26:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://chessandmind.com/chess-intelligentsia/comment-page-1#comment-36625 Thu, 21 Apr 2022 22:40:29 +0000 https://chessandmind.com/?p=16877#comment-36625 […] The ‘chess intelligentsia’ called Karjakin “outrageous”. He expressed controversial and inflammatory political opinions, they said. But so did many others chess players before him. For example, Kasparov has publicly supported illegal wars during his career. He wrote of the necessity of war and international aggression as far as far back as 2008, in his book “How Life Imitates Chess”, and has made constant public statements in favor of war since then. He was never sanctioned by FIDE for this reason. In fact, he even ran for FIDE President in 2014.[3] Unlike Kasparov, Karjakin did not call for war. On the contrary, he expressed his desire for it to end as soon as possible and with the least possible harm, in his public letter to Putin (see Karjakin’s letter below). […]

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