Ukrainian boy defeats Russian chess star to win World Championship

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• Godric@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oleksii Nakonechnyi played against 11 opponents, winning seven games and drawing four.

  Oleksii’s father, Ihor Nakonechnyi, told Ukrainska Pravda that he and his son were discouraged from participating in the championships due to the presence of Russians.

  "Many people said: ‘Don’t go, because the Russians will be there,’ " Nakonechnyi said in an interview published April 30.

  “I told them that we had already given them too much, and we had to go and take it back from them. If it wasn’t for Oleksii, the guy from Russia would have been first, and now he’s second.”

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• downpunxx@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Guess who's going to the front

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• turtlepower@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck, now Pootin will never stop this war.

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  • maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is a clear escalation, another red line passed. Prepare for WWIII and the nuclear apocalypse.

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