Special report by Chessdom.com
Karjakin takes Russian citizenship
The document is signed by the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
The year 2009 chess news are dominated by the chess prodigy Sergey Karjakin. He won convincingly the Corus 2009 Grand Slam event in January, applying interesting preparation novelty. Later the same year he won the match The World vs Azerbaijan, destroyed Short in a rapid match, and played many more nice classical and rapid chess games.
On July 24th Karjakin was again on top of the news wave as he married WGM Kateryna Dolzhykova in a ceremony in Kiev.
At the beginning of 2009 Karjakin decided to move to Russia and join the Russian Chess Federation. A few months later he filed the documents for the federation change. The official decision is a fact, Sergey Karjakin is now player and citizen of Russia. The document was signed on July 25th personally by the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Funny, nobody seemed to inform FIDE about this.
In federation change list
http://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2009
there is no trace of Karjakin. And the list IS up-to-date with the last transfers being on July 25th – the day Karjakin became Russian citizen.
Susan, where did you get the information about the date and Medvedev? And where did you get that scan of the document?
Chessdom doesn’t say anything about this, all it does it repeats the same old things we have been reading for months now, and it even links to articles that are from April!
Also it mentions Foros tournament end of June. There was no tournament in Foros this year!!!
So is he playing under Russian flag now or not? Everything is so muddy.
Anon 8:39, you’ve missed the headline at the Chessdom, official information is from e3e5.com
But it is wrong, they say that Karjakin-Short took place in 2009 which is not true. ( they removed this info now! )
Hilarious line in the article
“We became closer at the Dresden Olympiad disco. I invited Katya to dance . . .”
“Anon 8:39, you’ve missed the headline at the Chessdom, official information is from e3e5.com”
This is NOT the article that has been on chessdom when I made my comment!!!
Now everything is different. Whole thing id even more muddy than it was before 🙂