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Magnus Carlsen Gets Married, After Stirring More Controversy With 'Shared' 8th World Blitz Chess Title

Today 34-year-old chess champion Magnus Carlsen married 26-year-old Ella Victoria Malone, "in a ceremony packed with guests on a sunny winter day in Oslo," reports Chess.com. According to Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, a film crew from Netflix was also present. The streaming giant is shooting a che...

According to VG, she played a crucial role in securing Magnus a deal with fashion brand G-Star Raw... Their wedding was surely a fairy tale, but the Carlsens aren't heading for their honeymoon just yet. The article adds that "For Carlsen, this caps off a whirlwind week that began in New York, highlighted by his eighth World Blitz Championship title," a victory that they say was "controversially" shared with Russian grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi. He would have been pilloried in Moscow as preventing a Russian world champion had he ruled otherwise, and a negative could also have provoked a series of the notorious Berlin draws, the standard method for a quick mutually agreed half point.

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