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#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time
Lex Fridman Podcast
Do You Feel the Pressure of Geopolitics in Chess?
Sergei Kariaki was disqualified for breaching the Fidea code of ethics after publicly expressing approval for the 2022 Russian invasion in Ukraine. When you look at the Cold War and some of the US versus Russian games of the past, some of this geopolitics, politics ever creep its way into the game. So it's still definitely a factor. And I mean, I don't have a strong opinion on whether he should have been banned or not. In principle, I think that you should ban either no Russians or all Russians. But I don't love banning wrong opinions, even if they are as reprehensible as he has been.
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