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Is anyone else skipping OTB events?

Is anyone else skipping OTB events?

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This was to be my comeback year for OTB chess. I've cancelled it because of the coronavirus. I'm 65 and don't want to take unnecessary risks. This year it will be ICC Chess, and maybe another section or 2 at Red Hot Pawn. Is anyone else leaving OTB for this reason as well?

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Quite a few chess events have been cancelled.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/coronavirus-which-chess-events-have-been-canceled

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@mchill said
This was to be my comeback year for OTB chess. I've cancelled it because of the coronavirus. I'm 65 and don't want to take unnecessary risks. This year it will be ICC Chess, and maybe another section or 2 at Red Hot Pawn. Is anyone else leaving OTB for this reason as well?
I'm being forced to against my will. We're being reigned by panic.

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It will calm down in about a month no more than 2.

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Nah. Keep playing.

Move, clock, squirt of sanitizer!

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Whole chunk of weekend events have been cancelled in the UK.
Footballs has been suspended. concerts cancelled, fast food shops
closed, apparently cinemas near empty, live in the city centre of Edinburgh
and it's quiet all over....spooky.

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Next month we have annual Texas vs Oklahoma tournament and for now its a go but interesting see how many back out of teams with small number think most us will for this one there was 50 of last year about same so far this so for me not backing out. Some of the big scholastic tourneys especially this weekend cancelled but those are expecting triple digits so very understandable but any smaller im still going play

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In San Francisco 1918 a man was shot by police for refusing to wear a mask

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@ketchuplover said
In San Francisco 1918 a man was shot by police for refusing to wear a mask
Dude must have been really ugly.

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@eladar said
It will calm down in about a month no more than 2.
No, this is really serious. The world will be unrecognisable from how it is now in a few months time.

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@mynameisklint said
No, this is really serious. The world will be unrecognisable from how it is now in a few months time.
That will be interesting to see. We will see if politicians use this to control free citizens.

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"Interesting" as in "May you live in interesting times".

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@mynameisklint said
"Interesting" as in "May you live in interesting times".
Well there have been no interesting times for 80 years. Maybe it is time for them again.

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@bigdoggproblem said
Nah. Keep playing.

Move, clock, squirt of sanitizer!
Amen!

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@ketchuplover said
In San Francisco 1918 a man was shot by police for refusing to wear a mask
That explains why people are fearful of flu shots.