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COVID At the World Cup **UPDATED**

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Greeeeeeat. According to Chess24's Facebook page (HT: Allen Becker), Levon Aronian forfeited the first game of his World Cup match with Bobby Cheng due to a possible COVID infection, though he still may able to return for game 2. And Fabiano Caruana won the first game of his match with Indonesian GM Susanto Megaranto when the latter was forced to resign after move 15 because he - Megaranto - had a positive COVID test. (And now we have to see if Caruana will wind up testing positive.)

Unless the players have been wearing masks and engaging in social distancing - and even then there are no guarantees - this could turn out to be a disaster. What is FIDE going to do if everyone ends up testing positive in a week or so?

**UPDATE** It isn't clear if Aronian had (and has) COVID, but he does have (at least) tonsilitis. From his Facebook page (HT, once again, to Allen Becker):

Dear all, with great regret I have to inform you about my withdrawal from the FIDE World Cup 2021. Having a high fever and tonsillitis, despite my great desire to play, I have to be rational and put mine, and the health of other players first.
I want to personally thank the FIDE President Mr. Dvorkovich for taking all possible actions to help me in any issues I got.
Please take care of yourself, and hopefully the tournament will continue without any misfortunes.
I promise to get healthy soon and come back to the magical world of 64 squares!

 

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