On April 14, 2022, the Supervisory Board of Chess Federation of Russia unanimously voted to switch the Chess Federation of Russia’s membership from the European Chess Union to the Asian Chess Federation — a no-return move aimed at breaking up the conventio ad excludendum against Russia. As has now been reported, the application will be taken into account in the first quarter of 2023. It should be stressed that for most Russian Grandmasters the Chess Federation of Russia’s change of continent is the only alternative to a personal change of sporting nationality. Speaking with the TASS correspondents, Russian Grandmaster Alexander Igorevich Grischuk very prudently said that “The matter is difficult, because no one knows what and how will happen in the world. In the short run, that is good, at least for chess. I don’t know about football. But in the long run, it’s difficult to predict — even for chess”.
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