Russia and Ukraine have faced off on the battlefield in the six months since Moscow’s forces crossed the border and invaded their neighbour.
Now a Ukrainian grandmaster is shifting the fight to chess as he seeks to harness international sympathy for Kyiv and dislodge his Russian opponent from leading the governing federation.
Andrii Baryshpolets, 31, a grandmaster for nearly a decade, said the war was the spur for him to run for the presidency of the International Chess Federation, Fide, an organisation “tied to the Kremlin” that has been under continuous Russian leadership for nearly 30 years.
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