Earlier at the moment ie. 29th November 2020, MrBeast introduced on Twitter that he has discovered how to play chess and even invited fellow content material creators to play with him.
MrBeast introduced that he solely discovered how to play chess a few days in the past however was already addicted. Almost instantly, quite a few content material creators replied to his put up and appeared keen to take part within the chess problem.
This consists of YouTubers Callux and Landon and American chess participant Hikaru Nakamura that TSM signed again in August.
What’s extra, MrBeast additionally ended up being challenged to a $100,000 game of chess by none apart from Norwegian chess grandmaster and present World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen.
MrBeast is “addicted” to chess, gets challenged to a game by Magnus Carlsen
As could be seen within the put up beneath, MrBeast, whose actual title is Jimmy Donaldson, introduced that previously few days he is beginning taking part in chess. Shortly after this put up went dwell, a number of content material creators had already replied to the put up taking MrBeast on.
This consists of Fortnite and Roblox YouTuber Landon, who posted a clip of him taking part in chess on his telephone throughout a New Year’s occasion.
Moreover, as already talked about, the official TSM account ended up tagging Hikaru Nakamura on MrBeast’s put up. Hikaru Nakamura is a 5-time United States Chess Champion who not too long ago signed with TSM. Hikaru Nakamura is the youngest American grandmaster and at present has 617k followers on Twitch. MrBeast even confessed that he watches all of his movies!
Additionally, YouTuber Brianna, Callux, and even Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri additionally took up MrBeast’s problem, and have all replied to the put up already.
Finally, Australian YouTuber LazarBeam additionally obtained into the act not too long ago and took the problem on. LazarBeam stated that he has watched the Netflix sequence ‘The Queen’s Gambit’, and is subsequently prepared for the problem.
However, probably the most notable chess grandmaster/persona who has already replied to MrBeast’s put up is none apart from record-breaking Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen. Currently, Magnus Carlsen is the World Number #1, and can be the World Chess Champion.
Needless to say, he’s grossly overqualified for MrBeast to tackle. However, Magnus Carlsen has already challenged him to a $100,000 combat. Knowing MrBeast, he would possibly as nicely take the problem on.
Published 01 Dec 2020, 00:27 IST
