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Russia and the game of chess is a historic marriage since this nation has long had in its ranks the best players in the world. But, today, the divorce is consummated since the site chess.com announced that it was among the websites banned and blocked by the authorities.
” On Sunday, Chess.com was banned by the Russian government agency Roscomnadzor, the Federal Service for the Supervision of Communications, Computers and Media “, can we read on chess game site the most popular in the world since it has more than 20 million players! Chess.com joins a long list websites and services including Twitter, Facebook, instagram but also Google News, France 24 or the BBC.
Russia did not appreciate two articles
Why was Chess.com blocked? Russia actually reacted to two articles published on chess.com. The first concerned the invasion of Ukraine with a description of Russian policy and actions on Ukrainian territory. The second was a report on chess players during the early days of the war.
As Chess.com uses secure web pages, the Regulator Russian was unable to censor the two pages concerned, and therefore blocked the entire site. The leaders of chess.com therefore invite russian chess players to use the apps mobiles or a VPN to continue playing online. This is the best way for circumvent this type of censorship.
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