French chess players, quarantined in Russia, hope to return despite Moscow's grounding of all international flights
Chess players from France with chess officials wearing protective face masks pose for a picture at a hospital in Murmansk, Russia March 22, 2020.
But the tournament was derailed when an Irish player was diagnosed with the coronavirus, forcing other participants into quarantine. Chess players from France look at the board during a game at a hospital in Murmansk, Russia March 28, 2020. "We have a Plan B because we are chess players and always anticipate the next move," Kien said.
Russia, which has recorded 1,264 cases of coronavirus, has halted all international flights and on Saturday said it would be closing all border checkpoints from Monday.Chess grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, currently ranked eighth in the world, returned to France this week from a tournament in Yekaterinburg, a city 1,400 kilometres east of Moscow, just as all international flights were being suspended.
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