The top seeds are Caruana, Aronian, MVL, and Firouzja as Grischuk, Mamedyarov, Rapport, Nakamura, and Vidit are the biggest names that have withdrawn., Chess.com Community – Twitter.If there is indeed a hard lockdown in Latvia starting in a few days, out of respect for Latvians suffering with Covid and for the health and safety of myself and my trainer, I will not be competing in the Grand Swiss chess tournament in Riga., Hikaru Nakamura – Twitter.After contemplating on the current situation in Latvia for the past few days, I have decided to withdraw from the tournament. There is a lot of uncertainty & health is the first priority. I hope that Latvia overcomes this wave soon., Vidit Gujrathi – Twitter.Chess players withdraw from Grand Swiss amid Latvia Covid-19 lockdown, CNN.FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss Will Proceed Despite Lockdown in Latvia, Lichess., a także Lê Quang Liêm, Saleh Salem, Bassem Amin, Qədir Hüseynov, Arkadij Naiditsch, Étienne Bacrot, Maxime Lagarde, Sandro Mareco, Aleksandr Motylow, Ilja Smirin, Aravindh Chithambaram i Robert Hess.
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