After Kirsan announced that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg would be attending the WCC somewhere in NYC this month, Gates’ office issued a statement that he would not be attending. What legitimate business person would want to be seen in the presence of FIDE officials and Russian oligarchs connected to Vlad Putin? Now, if only those leading national chess federations in the West would follow suit…
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I’ve moved this topic from US Chess Issues to All Things Chess.