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Dear All,

Just a heads up that the Captain of Kyiv Chess Club, Andriy Baidikov, will be interviewed live on Sky News tomorrow at 12.20pm Ukraine time.

You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Auq9mYxFEE

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At 3pm Ukraine time they play their next 20/20 World League match vs. Dundee City

This is being streamed live on ChessHeroes with FM Jonathan Blackburn here:

https://www.twitch.tv/chessheroes

The game link for that match is here: https://www.chess.com/live#tm=1155636

Please pass on to whoever you think might be interested.

Best wishes and peace to all,

Peter Hornsby

Founder and Tournament Director of 20/20 Chess www.2020chess.com

So the interview is at 10:20AM UK time? And the match kicks off at 1PM UK time?

Seems remarkable that they're playing.

Angus French wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 05, 2022 9:15 pm

So the interview is at 10:20AM UK time? And the match kicks off at 1PM UK time?

Seems remarkable that they're playing.

That's correct yes, and absolutely.

In my opinion, both the interview and the Twitch stream are worth watching.

You can watch the stream with the match and the interview here:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1417174884

4 minutes 30 minutes in

Further comments from the Kyiv Chess Captain can be found here:

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1500565402421760001

Kiev went on to defeat Dundee City 23-3 in Round 7 of the World 20/20 Online Chess League. Unbelievable that the Ukrainians played this match at all and it was featured on Sky News https://www.facebook.com/peter.hornsby. ... 4046016244

It is probably worth noting that also this weekend, Lviv University were unable to complete their fixture because the Captain and most of the players had gone to Kyiv to fight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1NMQ6o-B94

The whole thing is available on Youtube now (easier than Twitch as that deletes itself after 14 days)