G.O.A.T. Chess Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen Poses For Selfie With Opponent Pre-Match, Immediately Has Her Phone Confiscated

Gotta love Magnus Carlsen. That delightfully cocky, grandmaster asshole. Professional chess wouldn't be the same without him. Honestly, once Magnus is gone, a guy like me who has never once gone out of his way to keep up with the world of professional chess would probably never hear about it. Chess needs an anti-hero to go viral for something silly once every few months or so. Just to keep pro chess in the news cycle. Magnus is the perfect man for the job.

Good on Magnus for calling this girl out. Not because she was actually going to use her cell phone to cheat. I can't imagine anybody uses their cell phone to cheat anymore. It's too obvious. That's what remote controlled vibrating anal beads are for.

But if Magnus didn't call her out before the match, who's to say she doesn't get DQ'd later on? He may have done this young woman a favor. If he was a real dick, he would have kept that move in his back pocket just incase she was about to beat him.

Chetak – As per FIDE rules, had Nurman won the match, and been found with a phone on her person, she could’ve been expelled from the event even.

And thanks to Magnus, she probably got a bunch of new fans/followers who just now learned of this new young grandmaster on the circuit. Her name is Alua Nurman. She's from Kazakhstan. At only 18-years old, she's the #2 ranked female chess player in her country

Kazakh women’s No 2 Alua Nurman was up against Magnus Carlsen at the Grenke Chess Festival, a FIDE event at Karlsruhe, where the likes of Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian, Vincent Keymer, Artur Yusupov, and Hans Nieman also participated. It was a Swiss format with freestyle time control.

Magnus Carlsen taught her a valuable lesson about phones at the chess table, and proceeded to knock her out in the second round of the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open. But to Alua's credit, Magnus said it wasn't as easy as he thought it would be.

Chess.com – Like in the first round, Carlsen's win was not a walkover. He praised his opponent, the second female player for him in as many rounds:

“I guess it was like 25 moves without exchanging pawns. You kind of want it to be the way that, once I make the first pawn move with …f7-f5 at some point, then everything is prepared and the game is over. Of course, she is a very good player. I’ve seen her beat very strong grandmasters. It’s never as easy as you think, that’s the main takeaway.”

Thanks for coming out, Alua. Keep your phone in the hotel room next time.