How Come This Player Has Joined English Fed?

[Mark Howitt]

How Come This Player Has Joined English Fed?

https://ratings.fide.com/profile/4152956

[Ian Jamieson]

How Come This Player Has Joined English Fed?

https://ratings.fide.com/profile/4152956

And will he have to pay for a Gold membership?

[Mark Howitt]

Yeah I think the ECF would be after his gooooooooooooold....

But wouldn't they have to pay a TRANSFER FEE for such a player...

It shouldn't be allowed.

[MJMcCready]

Isn't he the player GM Adams was meant to play a celebrity match against at last month's chessfest? This suggests he maybe based in England. Perhaps he likes the place?

[Mark Howitt]

Needs an official reasoning...

Because obvs he's not born in England, hasn't played much/any chess in England lately... and it would need a tranfer fee??

Surreal... shouldn't be allowed to take a true English place in team events.

[MJMcCready]

He wouldn't be the first non-Englishman to play for England if he was selected. Murray Chandler springs to mind as does Mir Sultan Khan.

[Roger de Coverly]

Surreal... shouldn't be allowed to take a true English place in team events.

Why not? It's not as if England has a surfeit of 2700 plus players.

Going back over thirty years, Mihai Suba was an asylum seeker and later played in the European Championship for the England team.

[Matt Mackenzie]

Do you have to be affiliated with the ECF to appear in the rating list? Wasn't aware that was the case, if so.

[David Shepherd]

There is a duplicate thread on this - "New number one England player"

[MJMcCready]

Surreal... shouldn't be allowed to take a true English place in team events.

Why not? It's not as if England has a surfeit of 2700 plus players.

Going back over thirty years, Mihai Suba was an asylum seeker and later played in the European Championship for the England team.

We haven't got any now, he would be the only one.

[Mark Howitt]

Would have to know legalities of a Russian (not living in Eng before) being in Eng too... not generally allowed these days...

[IM Jack Rudd]

But wouldn't they have to pay a TRANSFER FEE for such a player...

Probably not if he's transferring from FID, as I suspect a lot of Russians currently are.

[LawrenceCooper]

But wouldn't they have to pay a TRANSFER FEE for such a player...

Probably not if he's transferring from FID, as I suspect a lot of Russians currently are.

From the FIDE transfers page https://ratings.fide.com/transfers.phtml

4152956 Vitiugov, Nikita ENG RUS 2023-08-29 2023-08-28
Last FIDE event: 2022 FIDE Grand Prix 2. POOL B
Citizenship RUS
Date of eligibility
to participate in the FIDE events under the new flag 2023-08-30
Transfer fee NA
Date starting from which a player
can represent the new federation fee free 2023-08-30
(decision on team competitions pending)

[MJMcCready]

Will bolster our chances for the next Olympiad then.

[Djuna Tree]

Welcome Nikita! He joins a long list of players who have changed federations after a warmonger's actions in their country of origin. I am proud to accept such players as fellow nationals and teammates.