The German national chess coach Jan Gustafsson works for the Russian World Cup candidate Jan Nepomnjaschtschi. Nepomnyashchi condemned Russia's attack on Ukraine in an open letter in April 2022.
The German Chess Federation did not know until now that its men's national coach was now also working for NepomNjaschTSchi. Peter Heine Nielsen, coach of superstar Magnus Carlsen, is calling for all Russian players to be banned from the tournament in Toronto.