Today in Celebrity Instagram Chess Analysis: Toss a Pawn to Your Witcher

In what has unexpectedly become a recurring feature here, we analyze the chess positions of celebrities who post photos of their games on Instagram, which instantly go viral for reasons unknown.

Today, it's Superman himself, Henry Cavill, taking a break from soaking in the tub to play a match with his new girlfriend, Natalie Viscuso. "This is me looking quietly confident shortly before my beautiful and brilliant love Natalie, destroys me at chess," Cavill posted. It received 2.4 million likes. Natalie received another 25,000 when she posted the same photo.

Let's look at the board:

The couple played on a USAOPOLY Game of Thrones Collector's Chess Set (available for $119.99 on Amazon). It may be a little difficult to distinguish the pieces, but we can see that Cavill, as white, has played four moves. He has Unsullied pawns on c3, d4, and e4, and has moved his queen to e2.

It appears Natalie has also made four moves. She has pawns on a5, b6, and g6, with a knight on h6. Stockfish shows Cavill with a 1.28 advantage already, so he's just being chivalrous about being destroyed.

There is one curiosity. Cavill appears to have already captured Natalie's kingside rook pawn. But how?

Perhaps Natalie played with a one pawn handicap as a gift to her Witcher. Or maybe Cavill used his superspeed to remove the pawn before Natalie could notice.

One last question: Who took this photo? Judging from the low lighting, we know it wasn't The Flash!

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