Player Meet and Greet/ Autographs/ Discussions

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fischerrook

I was thinking of trying to attend one of the tournaments sometime. I was wondering how easy it would be to get an autograph from Magnus or Caruana at one of these things. Are there opportunities to meet the players or is it fairly impossible? I remember during the tournament recently in Leuven where it seemed like the players were returning from their games and it seemed like it would be easy to speak to them, of course might not be a good time to talk to them after a game. 

ChrisWainscott
They usually have an autograph session at the St Louis events.

Other than that it’s generally easy as long as you follow a few etiquette rules.

Mostly, don’t ask a player after a loss and if they are rushing to get to their game on time.

Just be respectful and almost anyone will sign.
aryamagi

I wanna do an autograph with the most popular fide masters donald johnson and vishnu vanapali

They are 11th graders in Ardrey Kell High School in North Carolina