Magnus Carlsen draws with 143,000 online players in a historic freestyle chess match.

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw in a record-setting online match against over 143,000 players worldwide, titled "Magnus Carlsen vs. The World." Hosted on Chess.com, it was the first-ever online freestyle game featuring a world champion. The game ended in a draw after Team World checked Carlsen's king three times, triggering the "threefold repetition" rule. This event followed similar games with Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand.