Sergey Does Tweets

War isn't funny but Karjakin kind of is

There’s nothing funny about war. There’s nothing funny about a peaceful country being invaded and there’s nothing funny about the suffering that follows.

But… I’ll still make jokes. I’ll still write silly tweets. I’ll still make fun of people like Karjakin for supporting the war and I’ll still make fun of FIDE officials for doing as little as humanly possible. I do it because I can’t really do anything else and I’ll make a few people smile. Their day will be slightly less shitty (even if it’s still really shitty).

If my stupid jokes don’t make you smile, then I’m sorry. It’s okay not to smile today. And probably tomorrow too - but the intent of a joke does matter and that’s what my intent is.

Anyway, here are some tweets by an idiot and some non-idiots.

Karjakin’s first comment wasn’t his own, just that he agreed with this piece. I won’t share the entire thing but it included this gem:

 “And since the inhabitants of Ukraine themselves failed, it is our sacred duty to help them. Our soldiers came in peace.”

The chess community was unimpressed.

Kamil Plichta @Kaldas90

@SergeyKaryakin @Anna_Shafran There are people playing chess without being able to see, there are people who can play not having a leg, a hand, all kinds of disabilities. However, you are the first person that I know who can play chess without having a spine.

Pinkman @MasterBlunderer

@Kaldas90 @SergeyKaryakin @Anna_Shafran AND BALLS.

Marek Ozyhar @ozyhar

@Kaldas90 @SergeyKaryakin @Anna_Shafran And brain

Dick van Mersbergen @DeRookmagier

@SergeyKaryakin @Anna_Shafran "Our soldiers came in peace". Right. They should have stayed in Russia. In peace.

Moritz MoMe @MoritzMome

@SergeyKaryakin @Anna_Shafran I don't think there is place for a player of that mindset in any future top tournaments. I'd love to see FIDE scratch his name off the candidates list

He then followed it up with… this.

It’s hard enough to understand the mentality of someone who uses 3 emojis, never mind someone who uses them in this context. Once again, Sergey managed to unite the chess world.

Georg Meier @GMGeorgMeier

The #1 disgrace of the Chess World. Born a Ukrainian, now a Russian prostitute, pissing on the graves of his former compatriots. 🤮😥 https://t.co/QwlK5bFMvl

Mikhail Golubev @mikhail_golubev

@SergeyKaryakin Sergey you should understand that you never will be forgiven for your today's tweets. Not just by me. By the chess community. You aren't an idiot and you know that Putin could have stopped all violence in Donbass at any point in recent years, he just didn't want. You fell too low

Kevin Goh Wei Ming @kevingohwm

I’m trying real hard to figure out why someone would ever write something like this. Maybe his family is held at gun point. Or more likely he’s just a scumbag? For those who don’t know, Sergey Karjakin is Ukrainian by birth….. https://t.co/f1hHMubAbO

Grzegorz Gajewski @GajuChess

I really hope we won’t see Karjakin in Wijk aan Zee next year…

Though he did (kind of) apologize.

Sergey Karjakin @SergeyKaryakin

Ok, may be I should not have published what random taxi driver told to me, apologies for that. But basically it does not change my opinion witch you can see in the previous post.

13 minutes later…

Sergey Karjakin @SergeyKaryakin

How lucky I am to live in Russia! https://t.co/zjiWvU3jba

Tarjei J. Svensen @TarjeiJS

Carlsen to TV 2: "When you represent a country that does so many strange things as Russia does, you get many ups and downs. Russian players and I both think this is something a country shouldn't do. I have to do my best and I am lucky to live in a country where there is peace"

Once again, the replies were not kind.

Heidi the h pawn @Heidi_h_pawn

@SergeyKaryakin If you’d opened one history book in your life, you’d know that tweet isn’t going to age well.

Giulio @Giulio54700075

@Heidi_h_pawn @SergeyKaryakin you could have hurt him, if only he had been able to read

Sean @rseanadkins

@SergeyKaryakin Is there a psychiatrist that can tell me what syndrome Sergey is suffering from right now?

A popular response to all of his posts was…

Will @JohnCarlsongang

@SergeyKaryakin Ratio

Himanshu Sharma @Himansh05880041

@SergeyKaryakin Ratio

To end on a more positive note, it looks like my favourite chess website just got better.

Sergey Karjakin @SergeyKaryakin

So, someone on behalf of Chess portal Chess24 writes that I'm kind of lying, and then, after my questions, he (she) ignores me. OK, I'm ready to ignore Chess24. If I don't get answers to at least the second question today, I promise I'll never play on Chess24 again. @chess24com https://t.co/amL48dUFNA

Sergey Karjakin @SergeyKaryakin

@chess24com 4 questions: 1. Do you manage a chess portal? 2. Who runs this nickname? I want to know the Last Name so as not to talk to an anonymous person who hid behind a chess account…

Though it’s nice to see the chess community being more or less united in condemning Russia’s aggression, all the tweets in the world making fun of Karjakin are unlikely to change much (hard to believe, I know).

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