Russian chess players tell Putin to 'stop the war

Russia's top chess players and, it appears, its chess federation, have appealed directly to President Vladimir Putin to stop the war as the game reels from the fall-out of the invasion of Ukraine. In an open letter published today, a list of highly-decorated players that reads like a who's who of Russian chess, said it is "unbearably painful for us to see the catastrophe that is happening".

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