Azerbaijani chess player refuses to participate in FIDE tournaments

Tabriz Guliyev
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Azerbaijani chess player Rauf Mammadov has announced that he will not participate in International Chess Federation (FIDE) tournaments, Report informs.

“As long as the FIDE has a pro-Russian president, I promise that I will not play in the tournaments of this organization while the war is going on. Long live Ukraine,” the 34-year-old grandmaster wrote on Facebook.

The wife of Rauf Mammadov, Natalya Buksa, is from Ukraine.

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