12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is careful to dissociate himself from the Chess Federation of Russia’s resolution to shift from the European Chess Union to the Asian Chess Federation, but it’s not what one might think of as a geographical prejudice. He simply argues, with a maximalism not absolute, that Russia, because of its particular position on the map, should belong to both the continents. “We’ve been in the European Union since joining the FIDE (International Chess Federation) — this happened immediately after the war. And for some reason everyone forgot that most of our country’s territory is located on the Asian continent. I think that we should have remained in the European Union and joined the Asian Federation. There is no ban on it anywhere”, Karpov said to a RIA Novosti correspondent.
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