Moscow Region Chess Federation President Sergey Karyakin said that under the contract with the Russian Chess Federation (RCF), grandmaster Andrey Esipenko does not have the right to change his sports citizenship. Karjakin quotes DEA News.
“I understand that FSR now supports Andrey Esipenko. We can say that this is the only chess player who will not change his citizenship in the near future. In fact, according to my information, it is stated in his contract with FSR that Esipenko has no right to change himself. As for the others, it wouldn’t surprise me if others changed their nationality as well. More precisely, I would be surprised if this did not happen, ”said Karyakin.
Sports citizenship was previously ranked first by Russian Nikita Vitiugov (25th in the International Chess Federation (FIDE) rankings), Sanan Syugirov (31), Vladimir Fedoseev (61), Kirill Alekseenko (62) and Alexander Predke (92). one hundred.
In February, it was learned that FIDE will allow Russian players to change their sports citizenship under an accelerated program.
Formerly Russian it happened Winner of the World Chess Cup.