It's pretty hard to keep the champion down for very long. Today Magnus Carlsen won a model game against Aryan Tari, showing that even though the trope of an ideal knight on d5 against a bad bishop on e7 is fodder for the textbooks...
Magnus Carlsen beat Aryan Tari to take the Lead of the 8th Altibox Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger while the former leader Alireza Firouzja lost an Armageddon to Fabiano Caruana and in third place Levon Aronian lost yet another Armageddon tie-break, this time to Jan-Krzysztof Duda.
In this extraordinary corona dominated times we can not play face-to-face OTB chess. But we are in a better position than e.g. football players: we can continue our sport and play chess online.
Let’s make a joke about this:
Nothing is better than eternal happiness.