Fabiana Caruana accomplished an unprecedented feat in chess history a few weeks ago. Against the best chess players in the world (considered as possibly the strongest field ever assembled) he won 7 matches, lost 0, and drew 3. In fact, he won 7 in a row, which is unheard of in top chess competitions, where a super-elite players can engineer draws quite reasonably. During his run he beat Magnus (world #1 with the highest chess rating ever recorded) with black. That is virtually impossible.
However, this feat got such little attention. I understand that chess is not in extremely popular but a feat like this deserves more attention than Lebron's recent weight loss due to cutting sugar out of his diet (which is what is being discussed on ESPN right now).
Chess requires intense focus and being in the moment, which in the age of smartphones and social media, is probably hurting the popularity of this wonderful game.
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