Stranded?
US GM Fabiano Caruana had expressed worries about the situation. “I have a situation where I’m usually away from home for three months at a time, but now I’m not actually sure I’ll have anywhere to return to at the end of this tournament,” Caruana told a chess publication. “I might be stranded somewhere, and I’m not exactly sure where, because the US State Department said that American citizens have to come back to the US or won’t be able to come back if they don’t come back right now. I’m not exactly sure, but I’m not really thinking about it now — where I’ll have to go at the end of this event.”