A little joke in the title, alluding to Magnus Carlsen's having already won the event with a round to spare. He duly collected his free point by showing up, resulting from Daniil Dubov's positive COVID-19 test a few days ago.
Magnus Carlsen is remarkable - as if we didn't all already know that. He hasn't been in fantastic form, and failed to win several winnable games (which is something he rarely does). And still, despite all of that...
On Friday, The Uprising newsletter reported that a former Trump campaign staffer who served as one of the fake "electors" tapped by loyalists to the former president to certify their nonexistent win in Pennsylvania...
Netflix is learning that careless dialogue in its fictional shows can have serious implications. Its bid to get a recent defamation suit dismissed has been rejected, meaning it will have to face the plaintiff — Georgian chess legend Nona Gaprindashvili — in court.
