Magnus Died??

edited moderator AndrewSmith 

He died last year

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.chess.com/blog/HornetCruise/we-lost-a-legend-today&ved=2ahUKEwi856O34eiLAxVETaQEHZv-GeUQFnoECBoQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2zBvazB7uetpgfOVdFBWB6

It's fake.

Early April Fools lol

He was playing chess as of 7 AM Norway time on the 1st so the information can't be correct and it's not even 9 PM there for 8 more hours: https://www.chess.com/game/live/13450435291

Is there any reason why this obviously fake news is not deleted, from the forums and the blog post as well? Martin_Stahl always manages to surprise me.

must be a doppelgänger of some kind.

Unless there's a major TOS violation Blogs don't generally get moderated. As to the topic, it's not really something that would be moderated either.

Ex world champion Boris Spassky died recently. Someone might have misheard the report and thought it was Carlsen.

Fake lol

That's not what happened. Read the OP's blog post. It's a completely fabricated story about Carlsen.