A chess miracle

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ArgoNavis

The other day something strange, grotesque, happened to me. Something you will not believe. It is a shame I did not take a photograph, because you may think what I saw was a hallucination, when it was not.

I was in a shopping center (Americans: mall) for reasons you do not need to know. Then, suddenly, I saw a poster on the wall. I could not believe it at first. It was Magnus Carlsen's face! What was that doing there? Since when are chess players good at advertising anything? Since when do ordinary people know about them? Who would buy clothes advertised by Carlsen?

All those questions popped up in my mind, at the same time. I started to think I had not looked properly, when I read his name in the poster. It was real!

ArgoNavis

(I swear drugs have nothing to do with what I saw)

Pulpofeira

Could be because he supports Real Madrid?

ArgoNavis
Pulpofeira escribió:

Could be because he supports Real Madrid?

He was advertising a brand called "Raw" so it probably has nothing to do with that infamous football team.

dylana64
Magnus is a model... That might have something to do with it...
DoctorStrange

Yeah he make around $1,000,000 a year by modeling and chess....!!!!

ArgoNavis

Mmm...so you think a chess player can be cool and popular?

^Best joke ever.

ChessOfPlayer

Is he being searched because of the way he looks?

ArgoNavis

When was that photo taken? When they sent him to prison in Japan?

chesster3145

This is gold in our 21st-century culture, having a strong and good-looking WC that is the purest famous example of elite-level chess to date.

ChessOfPlayer

http://www.rcspeck.com/weirdos/the-twenty-greatest-american-weirdos-of-the-20th-century-part-6

Nice read.

ChessOath
KID_Harish wrote:

Yeah he make around $1,000,000 a year by modeling and chess....!!!!

Wow is that number wrong... It's not even close... The world championship matches alone...

thegreat_patzer
Pulpofeira wrote:

Could be because he supports Real Madrid?

lol

not 1: 10 americans even know what that is- AND if you tell them its a football team then they are doubly sure you're insane.

 

next hypothetical percentage

surely not 1:20 americans even know Magnus Carlsen,---what he looks like, what he's famous for....

Pulpofeira

Ok, but supposedly kingof is around here.

Pulpofeira

He was in that mall, looking for Kilo Ren's lightsaber... damn, I said it!

DoctorStrange

Carlsen probably supports Real MAdrid.

I support too!

ArgoNavis
Pulpofeira escribió:

He was in that mall, looking for Kilo Ren's lightsaber... damn, I said it!

Nah, I have 7 of those.

ArgoNavis
KID_Harish escribió:

Carlsen probably supports Real MAdrid.

I support too!

Do you support this?

incantevoleutopia

I'd support this:

shortattack

Get a life, idiot!