As bombs fell around her, an international network of chess friends rescued rising star Kamila Hryshchenko from Kramatorsk and brought her to the UK. Now she plays for England.
'Chess saved my life,' Kamila says. There is mischief in her eyes as she moves her queen in a piercing diagonal, opening up my crumbling defence. Checkmate is just moves away, a formality. Once a rising chess star in eastern Ukraine, Kamila Hryshchenko was forced to leave her home in Kramatorsk when the bombs started to fall around her. Still just 21 years old, she now lives in Hull after an international network of chess players helped whisk her and her mother to safety.
In East Yorkshire, Kamila and her mother spend much of their spare time doing everything they can to raise funds for Ukraine. Her decision to change her chess federation from Ukraine to England - and thus play under the English flag - was a difficult one, she says. 'It was a very hard decision for me. It was so personal because of Ukraine and the war, and I want to support my country.
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