Grandmaster Ivanchuk is not allowed out of Ukraine for the FIDE World Cup
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FIDE: Grandmaster Ivanchuk is not allowed out of Ukraine for the World Cup in Baku
Ukrainian chess player Vasily Ivanchuk is not allowed to leave Ukraine to participate in the World Cup of the International Chess Federation (FIDE).
FIDE announced this on its website.
The tournament will be held in Baku from July 29 to August 25. Ivanchuk received a wild card from FIDE to participate in this significant competition.
The grandmaster lives in Lviv, according to FIDE. To leave the country for sports purposes, he needs permission from the Ministry of Youth and Sports, since he is under 60 years old (Ivanchuk is 54 years old).
“Such permission was not given,” the federation said in a statement. “An official request from the organizers of the World Cup, the Azerbaijan Chess Federation, was also rejected.”
It is also reported that several leading grandmasters of the world signed an open letter addressed to the head of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine with a request to release the “legend of chess” to the tournament. The letter is signed by Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, Indian Viswanathan Anand, Israeli Boris Gelfand and Americans Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So.
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