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Karpov: A Russian MP sanctioned by the EU is a chess legend – Marca English
The European Union responded to Russia's actions in Ukraine with yet more sanctions against the Kremlin and its allies on Thursday, and one such individual who has been sanctioned is chess legend Anatoli Karpov.
The former Chess master was deputy of the Russian Duma, however the sanctions placed upon him will prevent him from moving through European territory.
He turns 71 years old in May, and has been a long-time member of Vladimir Putin's United Russian party.
He has created 46 schools for chess across the globe, however his work will now be under the microscope and be affected by the war in Ukraine.
These sanctions have been approved by the EU and they encompass a lot more famous and wealthy Russians, with 351 members of the Duma and 27 high-ranking officials also being named on the list.
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Putins moves are hardly chess thumping – The Hindu
The Russian Presidents actions this week may yield tactical gains but hardly pass the test for strategic victory
The Russian Presidents actions this week may yield tactical gains but hardly pass the test for strategic victory
Diplomacy has retreated as the smouldering Ukraine crisis took a decisive turn this week. On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched special military operations with the objective of demilitarising Ukraine but not occupying it. Just days prior to this, Russia had upped the ante by recognising the sovereignty of the Peoples Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, two of Ukraines easternmost provinces and deploying Russian peace-keeping forces in these territories. A meeting between United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stands cancelled and the prospects of a summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and Mr. Putin have evaporated into thin air.
The Russian actions have been strongly condemned and sanctions imposed by the U.S., the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Japan. After 1945, this is the second time that national boundaries are being redrawn by force; the first was the 1999 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air strikes on Serbian forces that led to the creation of Kosovo. Russian and Chinese protests about NATO undertaking out of area operations without United Nations Security Council approval carried little weight.
In the post-Cold War world that promised a rule-based liberal international order, clearly the message from Thucydides Peloponnesian Wars still held the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
In 2022, Russia has fired the first shot but NATO is not blameless either. The Ukrainian crisis has been in the making for over a decade. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in late-1989, then U.S. Secretary of State James Baker was meeting Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow in February 1990 to help ease the way for German unification. He assured Mr. Gorbachev that NATO understood the need for assurances to the countries in the East, adding that even with Germany a part of NATO, there would be no extension of NATOs jurisdiction one inch to the east.
By end-1991, USSR had broken up into 15 countries; Mr. Gorbachev faded into history and a change in the White House was under way. Rather than look for a new European security framework, the newly independent Baltic and central European states sought security in a U.S.-led NATO. The old caution that the cost of expansion goes up as it reaches closer to the Russian border was discarded and NATO adopted an open door policy.
Beginning in 1999, NATO has added 14 new members in stages. At the NATO summit in 2008, at U.S. President George Bushs urging, an in-principle opening for Ukraine and Georgia was announced, though France and Germany, conscious of Russian concerns, successfully opposed defining a time frame. It was a bad compromise and the damage was done.
Later that year, Russia intervened in Georgia on the grounds of protecting the Russian minorities and took over the northern provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In 2014, following the Euromaidan protests against the pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovich, Mr. Putin annexed Crimea. For Russia, Crimea is vital as the peninsula hosts Russias Black Sea fleet, providing it access to the Mediterranean and its bases at Latakia and Tartus in Syria. At the same time, pro-Russia separatists, assisted by Russian mercenaries, created autonomous regions in the Donbas region.
Despite no timeline for membership, Ukraine was made a NATO Enhanced Opportunity Partner in 2020. The presence of British and U.S. warships in the Black Sea began to increase. In 2019, the U.K. entered into a cooperation agreement with Ukraine to develop two new naval ports, Ochakiv on the Black Sea and Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov, a move that Russia saw as potentially threatening.
Clearly, Mr. Putins grievances, beginning with NATOs bombing of Serbia in 1999, interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya and colour revolutions to engineer regime changes, the U.S. unilateral withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in 2002 coupled with missile defence deployments in Poland and Romania that Russia perceived as offensive, were accumulating.
France and Germany initiated talks between Ukraine and Russia under the Normandy format leading to the Minsk agreements, in 2014 and 2015. The first was for a ceasefire between Ukraine and the Russian-backed separatists and the second was between Ukraine, Russia, the two separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Supportive declarations by France and Germany were intended to address Russian security concerns. Ukraine undertook to introduce certain constitutional amendments to provide a degree of autonomy to the two provinces and Russia was to assist in withdrawal of all foreign forces. However, neither side implemented and positions have only hardened since.
In the intense diplomacy during the last six weeks, particularly the back-to-back visits by French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Schulz to Moscow and Kiev, there was talk of reviving the Normandy format. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was in no mood to oblige with over 1,50,000 Russian troops poised on his border and Mr. Putin was looking for his own face saver. Mr. Macron has a difficult re-election coming up in April and Chancellor Schulz has already been criticised for being soft on Russia because of energy dependency.
Mr. Biden faces a critical mid-term election in November that could see the Senate shift to Republican control and had already faced considerable flak for the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan last year. His aim was to ensure trans-Atlantic unity in NATO. Russias threatening moves made NATO members, especially the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and the central Europeans like Poland and Romania, especially nervous. Finally, NATO remained united but unable to provide an off-ramps solution.
With a military force of 2,00,000 and an equal number of reserves, prudence dictates that Mr. Putin would not want to take over Ukraine. However, the separatist groups that currently control only part of the provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk would want to extend their territory beyond the current Line of Contact dividing the separatists and the Ukrainian forces.
Along the Black Sea coast, Russia could seek to extend a coastal corridor to the Crimean Peninsula. This would cement its hold on the Sea of Azov, giving it control over Mariupol and Berdyansk and restrict Ukraine to Odessa in the west.
Ideally, Mr. Putin would have liked to bring about a regime change in Kiev, but that seems unlikely now. Domestic troubles in Belarus have made President Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, dependent on Russian support. Both countries announced that the 35,000 Russian soldiers, in Belarus for joint exercises that concluded on February 20, would stay on for training cooperation and inspections. A Russian military presence in Belarus puts pressure on the 65-mile long Suwalki corridor that constitutes the boundary between Lithuania and Poland and more importantly, separates Belarus from Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave on the Baltic Sea that hosts its Baltic fleet.
Mr. Putin may claim victory in the near term, but in the long term, he has over-reached himself. NATO has been rejuvenated, the trans-Atlantic unity strengthened and Russias economic ties with Europe have been adversely impacted. Given Russias considerable foreign exchange reserves, of nearly $640 billion, sanctions imposed by the U.S. and EU may not hurt immediately but eventually will begin to bite both the oligarchs and the common people. Worse, Russia will become more dependent on China for political support as well as a market for its energy exports. This will eventually weaken its hand in central Asia.
Russians have been the greatest chess players and President Putin knows that a move on the chessboard will close certain options while opening up others. The challenge is to constrain the adversarys options while increasing ones own options and space for manoeuvre. His actions this week may yield tactical gains but hardly pass the test for strategic victory.
Rakesh Sood is a former diplomat and currently Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation
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Putin moves his chess pieces while we try not to die of hunger: What Russians think about Ukraine invasi – iNews
MOSCOW Paediatrician Olga Alekseyeva could not stop crying after Vladimir Putins declaration of war against Ukraine she cried most of Thursday. The war was her personal tragedy, she told i, though she was not in Ukraine but in the northern Russian city of St Petersburg. She was convinced that any sane Russian felt the same way.
And many did. In solidarity with Ukraine, Novaya Gazeta came out in two languages on Thursday, in Russian and Ukrainian. More than 100 Russian journalists protested on social media: War has never been and never will be a solution to any conflict, there is no justification, reporters declared.
But millions of Russians felt completely indifferent, ignoring the devastation and panic in their neighbouring country. Restaurants, coffee shops, galleries and theatres were full of visitors on Thursday, as if it were a normal night both in St Petersburg and in Moscow.
Figures from pop culture tried to puncture the bubble, with a dozen of the countrys most prominent pop stars speaking out against the war.
And Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov, chief editor of Russias only independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, said in a video address that there was nobody in Moscow who could stop the war, because President Putin was spinning the nuclear button in his hand like an expensive key chain.
There was only one way out of this overwhelming feeling of shame, he said, a powerful anti-war movement all across Russia. According to Levada Centres social polls, 61 per cent of Russians lived with a constant fear of war this year, and the majority did not want the one against Ukraine. But the Kremlin did not pay attention to public opinion.
Neither sanctions nor the freezing of the Russian elites assets have been able to stop the war, so far. Russian authorities continued to insist that demilitarisation of Ukraine was the only solution the Kremlin had left and blamed all violence on Ukraine.
Sometimes I think that Putin and Russians speak different languages he lives in his bunker moving chess pieces around and we save money, think of how not to die from hunger and stock up on buckwheat, Moscow university professor Veronika Petrovna told i on Thursday.
Russian opposition party Yabloko collected signatures under a petition against the war. The number of people signing our petition has jumped from about 26,000 names last night to more than 40,000 today, the local deputy from Saint Petersburg, Boris Vishnevsky, told i, as Russian tanks broke the state border in Kyiv region on Thursday afternoon.
We have been warning Russians about the coming war for a year but unfortunately, very few listened to us.
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Nord Stream 2 is key in energy chess game between Russia and the West – TRT World
Germanys decision to suspend the new pipeline was meant to send a message to Russia to prevent it from weaponising gas.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on Tuesday that Germany would suspend the certification process for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline following Russian President Vladimir Putins decision to recognise the two Russia-backed separatist-held regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states. It was shortly followed by a decision to send Russian troops to the two regions on peacekeeping duties, marking a decisive escalation in the conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine.
A halt to the undersea natural gas pipeline built to bring Russian gas to Europe directly via Germanys Baltic coast is likely to be among the most significant of the sanctions Europe, the US and the United Kingdom are expected to impose on Russia after Putins one-hour televised speech on Monday evening.
Several observers had warned there was a risk that the pipeline, which is complete but not yet in operation, could become a major source of leverage for Russia over Europe. The continent already relies on Russia for more than 40 percent of its gas supply.
The 1,230-kilometre pipeline worth $11 billion had been filled with gas, and was waiting for a final go-ahead by Germany and the European Commission. Its majority shareholder is a subsidiary of the Russian state-owned gas company, Gazprom which makes a large contribution to the Russian states coffers.
Ukraine had been worried the German pipeline could put the country in a vulnerable position by allowing Russian gas to bypass it by doubling the capacity of the existing Nord Stream I. Currently, Ukraine and Poland earn a gas transit fee on supplies to Europe.
It was somewhat unexpected that Germany would be the first one [to impose] pretty serious sanctions, Peter Zalmayev, the executive director of the Eurasian Democracy Initiative (EDI) tells TRT World. The Germans had been considered a weak link in the western resolve to respond to Vladimir Putin. Up until now, Scholz had been reluctant to even mention Nord Stream 2 by name, he adds.
Nord Stream 2 had been approved under Merkel, when current Chancellor Olaf Scholz was finance minister.
Scholz said the move was aimed at sending a clear signal to Moscow that such actions wont remain without consequences.
Ukrainians had been calling for tougher sanctions on Russia to deter an invasion. Since Putins decision, both the EU and the US have unveiled further sanctions targeting Russian oligarchs and financial institutions.
Gas as a weapon
In July last year, a joint statement by the US and Germany promised a coordinated response to any Russian efforts to use energy as a weapon.
Analysts have argued the pipeline made the EU look divided, with its members in pursuit of their own narrow interests, while simultaneously creating friction in the Transatlantic alliance.
Nord Stream 2 has to be assessed in light of the security of energy supply for the whole European Union, said European Commission president Ursula Von Der Leyen after the EU unveiled its sanctions on Tuesday.
This crisis shows us that we are still too dependent on Russian gas.
Oil and gas prices have been rising amid the escalation of the crisis in Ukraine.
Brent crude prices surged to $99.50 early on Tuesday, while the European benchmark gas price, currently the Dutch March contract, was up 10 percent to 79.28 euros per megawatt hour (MWh).
Russias deputy chair of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev warned later in the day that gas prices would rise further as a result of Germanys decision.
"Welcome to the brave new world where Europeans are very soon going to pay 2.000 for 1.000 cubic meters of natural gas!" Medvedev said in a tweet.
A spike in gas prices due to shortages this winter forced consumers and governments all over Europe to foot higher energy bills. Many analysts saw the crisis as manufactured by Russia, which fulfilled long-term contracts with European customers, but failed to fill its underground storage in the continent.
The EU, which is transitioning away from decommissioned coal to clean energy like solar and wind, is now relying on gas for its green transition to clean energy such as solar and wind. Environmentalists say that gas, a fossil fuel, is part of the problem rather than part of the solution to climate change.
While the continent relies on Russian gas for its energy transition, the opposite is also true and Russia relies on Europe as a key market.
Russia has already been bleeding some funds, Zalmayev says, Putin is banking on increasing pressure against western governments from consumers. He is betting that Russians have a thicker skin.
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Collegiate Chess League Spring 2022: All The Information – Chess.com
The Collegiate Chess League's fourth season is set to begin on February 12, 2022, and runs until the finals on May 21.
Last season was our largest ever with over 1,000 players representing 160 teams from 80 schools from around the world. This season we surpassed over 1,200 players representing over 220 teams from over 100 schools. With no entry fee and yet another $25,000 in prizes up for grabs this season, it's no surprise more schools want to compete in the League.
With numerous teams playing each week, our official broadcast will mainly be provided for the key matchups in the top divisions. Teams are strongly encouraged to make an official Twitch account to stream their own matches. Many clubs have already started to do this even since before last season. A good example would be the UCLA Chess Club Twitch channel. We also encourage the players themselves to stream their matches if they already have a personal account. Chess.com is again inviting all college chess streamers to join their Streamer Program.
Below you can find all the information you need to know regarding our fourth season:
Matches will be broadcast live at Twitch.tv/CollegiateChessLeague with commentary done by the League's Commissioner, Joe Lee, with additional guests throughout the season. Players and their clubs are strongly encouraged to stream their own matches and are invited to join Chess.com's streamer program. Be sure to include that you are from the CCL when you apply. Benefits include:
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Same as last season, the spring 2022 season will have a $25,000 prize fund! Prizes will be given to the clubs based on their playoff standings.
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Registration for teams is currently closed for our spring season, but players can join existing teams if their rating does not significantly increase that team's average rating. Players joining teams as substitutes mid-season can fill out our registration form. This will be closed after round five. Before you join a team, please talk to your team's captain. If you don't have a team already registered, be sure to join us in our next season in the fall of 2022. You're also more than welcome to play in our weekly arenas by joining our club or by adding your college's club. You can email the league's commissioner Joe Lee at ccl@chess.com with any further questions. In the meantime, be sure to join our community over on discord!
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Chess adds telco player TTNC to the fold – ComputerWeekly.com
Chess has signalled that 2022 will be a year of growth after the firm sealed an acquisition for comms player TTNC (The Telephone Number Company).
TTNCs name gives away its business, but the firm provides comms solutions, including call management packages, cloud numbers, VoIP, SIP trunks, call tracking and bespoke telephone answering services, with the business commanding a vast range of telephone numbers.
The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, will add more depth to areas such as business broadband, telephony and unified communications where Chess already operates and has been described as the start of a period of growth by the channel player.
We have ambitious growth plans and the acquisition of TTNC sets us up for a great start to the year, said David Pollock, Chess founder and executive chairman. Small business owners are time poor, so need a knowledgeable and efficient technology partner. The addition of TTNC will further strengthen our capability to deliver end-to-end services to our small business customers through a fully digital experience.
Mark Burcher, managing director and founder of TTNC, said the acquisition came at a moment when opportunities for comms specialists were opening up even further.
Ive always admired how Chess are so passionate about their vision, culture and values, and how they continuously invest in their people, so finding a new home for the TTNC team and TTNC customers was an easy choice for me, he said. The acquisition will create many opportunities for our people and customers, and I am excited about the future.
Chess has been among those in the comms community encouraging customers to look ahead to the looming PTSN and ISDN switch-off in 2025 and examine other alternatives while there is time to plan and settle on the right strategy.
Set against that backdrop, the TTNC deal should provide the business with more expertise and depth to guide customers through the switch-off onto more modern technologies.
Chess is no stranger to using acquisitions to deepen its portfolio and was last active on that front in August last year, picking up penetration testing specialist Armadillo as it looked to strengthen the security side of its business and extend the services it can provide.
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Kanpur to host National chess championship – The Hindu
Kanpur will host the MPL 58th National chess championship at the Ganges Club from February 25 to March 3.
The All India Chess Federation (AICF) was due to hold its flagship event, offering a prize-fund of 30 lakh, from February 9. Since the voting in the city for the ongoing Assembly Elections clashed with the previous dates, the event was rescheduled.
The duration of the event was cut down to a week by reducing the number of rounds from 13 to 11 and holding two rounds on four days.
The womens National championship will be at Bhubaneswar from February 25 to March 2.
The fresh restrictions owing to the rise in Covid cases across the country forced the AICF to revise its calendar for the first half of the year.
It was decided to reduce the number of playing days besides doing away with the National under-8, under-10, under-12 and under-14 championships in open and girls sections.
The new dates for the International Opens in Guwahati, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Pune, Kolkata, Odisha and Vishakhapatnam were also finalised
The revised calendar:
February 25-March 2: Womens National championship (Bhubaneswar); February 25-March 3: National championship (Kanpur); March 4-8: National sub-juniors (Delhi); March 9-13: National juniors (Gurugram); March 13-20: Guwahati International Open (Guwahati); March 22-29: Delhi International Open (New Delhi); March 31-April 7: Gujarat International Open (Ahmedabad); April 9-16: National team championship (Nashik); April 18-25: National under-18 championship (Coimbatore); May 11-19: Pune International Open (Pune); May 21-29: Kolkata International Open (Kolkata); May 31-June 8: Odisha International Open (Bhubaneswar); June 10-18: Visakhapatnam International Open (Visakhapatnam).
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Prince Harry dubbed grand-master chess player for calculative appearance – Geo News
Prince Harry has been dubbed a grand-master chess player as he seemingly makes calculated moves in his public appearances.
According to body language expert Judi James, the Duke of Sussexs most recent appearance, where he promoted HIV Testing Week, has a much deeper motive than what meets the eye.
Speaking to The Express, she said that Prince Harry seemingly intentionally wanted to evoke the memory of his late mother Princess Diana, who has worked immensely for HIV campaigns.
She said: Looking like a grand-master chess player who has been planning his next move, Harry evokes the memory of Diana here, the woman who might once have been the next Queen, as a check-mate to place her firmly in the public consciousness again just as Camilla was put formally into position as Queen-in-waiting.
Who could blame him if this was deliberate?
His undying fondness for his mother is visible in the way his features soften when he talks about her and his eye expression looks loving and reflective.
He is re-stating his claim in terms of carrying on her good work by saying he feels obligated."
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