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The latest twitch-based video game: chess.
Magnus Carlsen, the reigning world chess champion, lost a game yesterday after his mouse slipped and he placed his queen on the wrong square. Carlsen had under 30 seconds on the clock and was racing to checkmate Hikaru Nakamura, the popular streamer and grandmaster who’s known for his command in speed formats.
(The board is delayed from the players’ reactions in the video below; the slip happens at :24 when Carlsen, playing white, moves his queen to a square where Nakamura’s king promptly takes it.)
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