In a brave public act, David Navara explains in details what he went through after the baseless accusations of Kramnik. Navara describes the emotional torture by Kramnik’s accusations, the silence of FIDE, their posterior inadequate reaction and total disregard on basic FIDE ethical and moral values. Navara ends his letter with a demand of resignation of Arkady Dvorkovich as FIDE President and provoked a massive reaction by the chess world
Timeline of events
23.05.2025 Navara publishes an open letter about Kramnik’s actions
23.05.2025 Reactions to Navara’s open letter – Aronian, Polgar, etc
23.05.2025 Navara and Kramnik to meet at FIDE World Rapid and Blitz
24.05.2025 David Navara, “I firmly believe that Mr Dvorkovich should resign”
24.05.2025 Kramnik, “I am deeply disappointed Navara participates in unjust PR campaign against me”
24.05.2025 Kramnik rage-blocks Chessdom over a comment on David Navara’s case
24.05.2025 Live: David Navara at French Top 16
Throwing baseless cheating accusations without actual proof is not moral. It is dangerous and should be punished. With his latest answer to David Navara, Vladimir Kramnik clearly shows he has no intention to stop his random defamation campaigns, that endanger the health and professional lives of players and defame the game of chess itself. FIDE must act. Now.