14th World Champion Vladimir Kramnik started a personal chess-related Telegram channel. Kramnik says that he created the channel at the request of friends. Vladimir names the goal of the channel as informing about the real state of affairs in the chess community.

Vladimir Kramnik

Vladimir Kramnik

14th World Champion

“Hello, I decided to start a channel after some friends convinced me to do so.

The goal is to gather a small community of worthy people. To convey my point of view to those who are interested. To inform subscribers about the real state of affairs, to publish real news that the chess media is silent about.

To give those remaining reasonable, thoughtful people with a penchant for critical thinking and logical argumentation an opportunity to find an outlet.”

Kramnik’s channel gained more than 200 subscribers in half a day. Vladimir actively runs an account on X.com with more than 24 thousand followers. Kramnik has a YouTube channel with more than 18 thousand subscribers.

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