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Back to reality. The 53rd Biel International Chess Festival, one of the most prestigious Swiss classic, has been announced to be staged offline from July 18–29, 2020 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, in compliance with all health and hygiene protocols outlined by the Federal Council. Eight players will take part in the Grandmaster Triathlon (GMT) feauring 28 games as 3 sets of round-robin: 7 classical games (100 minutes for the first 40 moves + 50 minutes for the next 20 moves + 15 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one), 7 rapid games with reversed colours (15 minutes + 5 seconds increment per move), and 14 two-way blitz games (3 minutes + 2 seconds increment per move). Three years after the triumph of 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) in the 50th anniversary (2017), no woman will take part in it. The eight participants are (in rating order): Pentala Harikrishna, Radosław Wojtaszek, David Antón Guijarro, Michael Adams, Romain Édouard, Arkadij Mikhailovich Naiditsch, Noël Oliver Studer, and Vincent Keymer.