The Sword in the Rock

The fourth and last stage of FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2019–20 starts tomorrow at Catalan Bay, Gibraltar. But apparently the most difficult thing for everyone (and each one) was to arrive via plane with a valid visa, as well as a negative COVID-19 test and all forms filled out correctly and completely, bravely challenging the “new normal” of the health terror. To date, 11 of the 12 participants somehow managed to arrive, while one is on her way, as John Saunders wrote in one of his first reports from the colony.